Censorship from "Obscene" Material

I believe censorship is permissible in certain circumstances. I find it necessary to censor violent and sexual movies for young children. Im one for scary movie and action & adventure, theyre fun to wacth, its excting. But theyre has to be an age restriction on some of these movies espicially now a days where we need more violence and fighting to find somehting exciting and fun. We have become totally immune to all the violence ont elevision. Children however need to be cesnured frmrom thi immunity. Not only will it be more likely for them to have violent tendencies, i find it inhuman for us to put a child through a scne where someone is getting sawed in half. Thta to me is a form of child abuse and torture. Putting your 2 year old child in front of a saw movie is outright torture, children are delicate beings they can face trauma this way. Everythign we see on the media effect our lives in one way or anpther this efdeec is even greatr when started at a young age.

Art has been around since the beginning of humankind and it has been and will always be a visual form of human expression, ideas, and morals. Art is subjective and everyone will feel differently towards one specific artwork. But disliking an artwork because it offends you does not mean that you must destroy it. Recently, a white artist, Dana Schutz created an abstract painting of Emmett Till, a 14 year old African American that was killed by a couple of white men because he supposedly whistled at a white lady. Many people have deemed this artwork as a form of cultural appropriation and have demanded the artist to take it down. Despite the controversies of this artwork, art should never ever be censored because it violates the artist’s freedom

Censorship refers to the regulation of freedom of expression or any other information that may be sensitive or morally inaccurate to the people. This information can be considered immoral or politically inconvenient by religious groups, the government, ethnic communities and media outlets. Censorship originates back in ancient times in many different countries such as Rome and China. Censorship was mainly used for political, social and religious purposes. For example, Christians used censorship to defend against non-Christian rulers threats.

Imagine if a society controlled what people see, hear, or did. This type of censorship is harmful to a society. Everyone needs to understand each other’s freedoms. This issue is discussed in Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury. In this society, they can not read certain things and people decide to commit suicide over it. Censorship takes away our rights as individuals. It violates the First Amendment, keeps people from learning, and gives the government total control.

Children’s innocence must be protected by censorship. The debate on whether censorship is beneficial to society often compiles to a few main reasons. Subjects like freedom of speech, women’s rights, and children’s innocence is brought into question when discussing censorship. It is an important debate because what is censored influences societal beliefs of what is right and wrong. It decides what truths are revealed publicly. Some people think censorship is beneficial because it supposedly protects children, but it is actually useless because it underestimates children’s tolerance, witholds information, oversexualizes women, and sugarcoats the truth.

The essay, ‘“Information Is the Alpha and Omega of Our Work”: Bolshevik Surveillance in Its Pan-European Context’ written by Peter Holoquist, discusses the topic of Surveillance in Russia and how it effected her people. During the time of Stalin – Holoquist believes that surveillance was used to manipulate people, bringing forward ‘the “new man”’ (Suny, 52) In this piece – Holoquist states that there was little trace of the belief in public opinion. Instead, the government did what they believed was best, and all should follow.

Books used to be a hard copied deed with words handwritten by ink pen, owned by the rich until the advent of the first printing press, enabling many to own multiple copies of this so called books. This also allowed affordable access to information and education for most. As time passed on, words began to show up on electronic devices allowing all to own at least one copy of a book "that's ever been written"; at least until it just "vanishes". Some may see this great technology as the greatest asset of the world, however, others may believe such things are wrong and not the conventional way of doing things. The contentious issue of eBooks replacing the traditional hard copied

Profanity in often a precursor for censorship. Profanity is heard in many different songs across the world. Especially in rap. However many will still ask the questioned “Why should it be censored?” Many adults say it should because it “gets into people’s minds and may cause their children minds and fear that they might get “brainwashed” by the profanity. Yet, children say that's “It’s freedom of speech.” Many agree that freedom of speech has a huge impact on this situation. A jouranslt stated that “Not only does it violate the first amendment of freedom of speech, but censoring lyrics also violates your freedom of thoughts.(Polter)”. A singer writes from their mind and emotion. Censoring lyrics takes away their feelings in the song. Despite

The history of art has gone on for centuries in all over the world. Some art does contain nudity, which some people do find offensive. In all different types of art, there is nudity. It is in paintings, sculptures, statues, etc. Whenever one walks through an art museum, there is nudity somewhere in an exhibit. Censoring art would take away from the art, and would decrease the beauty. However, children may be exposed to the nudity, which parents would not appreciate. The provocative and controversial art may cause disagreements among others. Others may find nudity in artwork on the verge of being pornographic.

The Internet is a global network of vast information. With a few clicks, an individual can have access to up to 200 million web-sites filled with educational and recreational information. The Internet is not regulated in anyway (Carnegie Library 1). It is accessible throughout the entire world from the North to the South, to the early morning sunrise and dark sunsets. Different ethnicity and backgrounds come together linked upon this network resembling a connection of one body in unity. Sadly, issues arise creating concern for users, focusing particularly on minors. Pornography is one of the inappropriate materials on the Internet for minors. This material is harmful to young impressionable minds. Pornography is tearing and

The movie industry became a big hit in America after 1910. These movies were silent movies so therefore; we didn’t have the problem with vulgar language. The first spoken movie was in 1927, called The Jazz Singer. At that time, the movie industry was so worried about keeping his or her audience happy and didn’t want to offend anyone. That we didn’t have the problems that we have today. In 1922, William H. Hays founded the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America. This organization, which later became the Motion Picture Association of America, established a code to make sure that all movies produced in America followed certain moral standards. Foul language, nudity, the use of words that had sexual overtones to

Freedom of speech is a constitutional right that many individuals benefit from. While this clause exists within the laws of the land, it is a source of constant debates. It is expressed that free speech overrides any form of restriction except whenever it is intended to harm another individual. The line between restriction and freedom is hazy regarding how much freedom is sufficient to warrant restriction. John Stuart Mill argues that “we are never justified in silencing the expression of an opinion, even if the view is patently false. We can, however, control when and how someone expresses an opinion” (LaFollette 346). This indicates that people should be permitted to express themselves in whatever language or form in which they wish. Pornography often comes up in conversations involving freedom of speech, as one of the rights to which people should be allowed. Bristol argues that pornography harms women in the sense that it “glorifies rape of and violence towards women” (LaFollette 346). This opinion bifurcates people into two types: those who feel that pornography should be legalized as it is a part of free speech and those such as Bristol who feel otherwise. Speech and expression entails all forms of action and verbal talk that is meant to raise one’s concerns regarding a particular issue, and should be treated with high and unrestricted regard. The exception includes cases in which they are meant to cause harm to other individual, whether in the short or

Censorship is a viable option for preventing children from viewing violence, as it allows a child's parents to choose what their child can and cannot watch. By censoring what children see on television, a video game, or even the internet, parents will be able to prevent their children from developing any kind of negative behavior that would have been caused through exposure to entertainment media. Parents can obtain software like Net Nanny, which will block any kind of profane or violent content (Shipley), or simply just make use of the Parental Lock settings on their television sets. Using devices like these will help ensure that children are only being exposed to the content that their parents want them to see. Censoring certain television channels and websites can give parents peace of mind, as they will know that their child will only be exposed to content that is appropriate and safe. If children are not given full access to media, then they will not be able to imitate any unhealthy or violent behaviors that they would have seen otherwise. Also, censorship will give the parents more control, so it will still allow them to have a say in what their children see on a daily basis. Setting up parental controls on different devices is also a simpler way of protecting children from adopting violent behaviors. Censorship is a simple and decent way to prevent children from viewing violent content.

“Censorship is the suppression of free speech, public communication or other information which may be considered objectionable, harmful, sensitive, politically incorrect or inconvenient as determined by governments, media outlets, authorities, or other groups or institutions (Dictionary).” Works of art should not be censored because of the first amendment right, art has been around culturally for centuries, and the artwork opens up dialogue for the audience.

Since the beginning of time art has been an important aspect to our lives. We learn from it, admire it, and some even relate to it in different ways. Art comes in many different forms it could be sculptures, photography, paintings or music. Some forms of art could be inappropriate and offensive to some people. Should all art be censored? A great deal of controversy has been provoked by this.