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A Comment About Censorship: Article Analysis

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The articles “A Comment About Censorship” and “What Children Need is Censorship” both discuss how censorship affects children. The articles address how censorship can affect youth, however “A Comment About Censorship” is very opinion based while “What Children Need is Censorship” includes a lot of facts. The two very different ways the articles write about the shared content, and their somewhat tantamount opinions allow the reader to see two very different perspectives on the topic. The articles contain extremely similar content, which is censorship and its affect on children, be it positive or negative.
Both articles discuss censorship, and the effects it can have on children. They mention that children are exposed to a lot of negative and inappropriate content everyday, however, this type of content may be important to the child overall. Governments shielding a child from media and literature because it may be inappropriate is clearly something the authors disagree with. Their opinions on the …show more content…

“A Comment About Censorship” discusses how “censorship is the child of fear and the father of ignorance” and is very opinion based. “What Children Need is Censorship” on the other hand, uses facts to imitate that children don’t need censorship in the traditional, government-decided sense. “A Comment About Censorship” says “censoring… difficult adolescent issues does not protect anybody.” This opinion helps to express how censorship doesn’t actually “protect” youth like so many parents and adults believe. “For example, accessing images of thousands of unnaturally slim and digitally enhanced , blemish-free young women… directly affects the self-esteem of developing girls and is linked directly with the development of eating disorders.” Aric Sigman, the author of “What Children Need is Censorship” states. Along with theme, tone is quite different between the

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