Imagine if you were never again allowed to watch what you wanted on television. It would be awful, you could never learn about the history of our country or others, your favorite television show might be cancelled. These are just a few of the disasters that could occur if the government or some other agency is allowed to regulate what you view in your home in your own time. This is what the censorship of television could bring. Our children could never learn many important historical facts that television can bring to them. If our television is censored, soon our speech could be as well and eventually bring the destruction of our great nation. "The first amendment should protect the independence of television"(5). The first amendment should include freedom of speech, press, and religion as well as television.
The censorship that is being forced upon us with the v-chip in our televisions is not only infringing upon our first amendment rights, but also our right to privacy, what we view on our own time should require no regulation by the government. This censorship should be stopped for a few reasons, it is unconstitutional, and it will lead to the destruction of our privacy rights, and is unnecessary regulation by the government that will only lead to a larger scope of government. .
Censorship is unconstitutional; it goes against everything the first amendment stands for. Individual people should choose for themselves whether or not a certain show is unsuitable for their children. The government should not have a say in what is on television. People have very different ideas to what is acceptable on television, no one person or organization can decide what is acceptable to all people because they can't. Some people find very different things entertaining on television, one person might enjoy watching war movies or bloody action movies, while another person likes watching romantic movies.
