How Does Censorship Affect The World

This doesn’t children to develop their own censorship skills and the ability to think about what they should and shouldn’t do. It also ruins the opportunity for the parents to teach their kids about censorship themselves.By banning books, you are taking away somebodies escape. Some people don’t have the best home life so they read to get away from the struggles for awhile. This can apply to school and work too. If someone doesn’t have friends at school or is having a rough day at work, they can just dive right into a book and become part of something much bigger. Literature is also a form of art. It’s the way that authors express themselves and taking that opportunity away is like taking you ability to speak away. “Throughout history, nations, peoples and governments have censored writers and their works on political, religious, sexual and social grounds. Although the literary merit of the majority of these books have been proven time and time again, censorship efforts are still in place

Censorship is a controversial topic argued about on an everyday basis. Censorship is all about perspective, one side argues that some materials should be censored while the other side argues it should not be censored. Censorship has subtypes of itself meaning it is separated into categories. The three categories are Moral Censorship, Political Censorship, and Book Censorship. Moral Censorship is the removal of materials that are thought to be obscene, to better the public view. Political Censorship is when the government partakes in blocking information from their citizens. Lastly, Book Censorship is banning novels by the nation or state, in some cases a school, if a community finds it to be inappropriate for the public to see. All 3 of these categories affect a country or nation and their citizens. Censorship can affect the internet, music, and films as well (The Spectator 1).

Censorship is the suppression, alteration, or prohibition of any parts of books, films, news, music, etc. that are considered obscene, politically unacceptable, or a threat to security. Censorship is an action that has been performed for many years on several subjects of the world, and it is still happening today. Although censorship is an action occurred on many subjects, music is one of the biggest censorship problems in today’s world. Music can have both positive and negative effects on a person in society. Either way, music shapes everyday lives of people around the world. Censorship of music is crucial in today’s society for protecting moral values, little children, and keeping music that has bad influences on others out of society.

Firstly, in the futuristic world of Fahrenheit 451, the theme of censorship is shown through the actions of the characters in the book. People of this society do not think independently nor do they have meaningful conversations and they don’t even have an interest in reading books. They most likely fear knowledge because they are probably afraid of knowing more about the war going on, which leads them to depend on the government to think for them. Subsequently, they need something to occupy their time. This is where television and mass media comes in. Instead of expanding their knowledge, they watch an extreme amount of television on wall-size sets and listen to sea-shells which are little radios attached to their ears and people drive extremely fast due to lack of appreciation for nature; they never really take the time to look around and admire

Censorship is not having a say in any written material because the government does not approve of it. In the book "Fahrenheit 451" censorship is not a good thing because people didn’t have such freedoms like that of free speech. The author Ray Bradbury wrote the story to show how important censorship is so that is way there is so many problems throughout the story. In Bradbury's novel, he uses tone in several ways to illustrate damage censorship has on society through his use of charged words, his use of historical symbols and his reflection of historical positive role models.

Censorship has been adopted in many societies as well as the governments of our world. As the history of the world expands we see many countries try to censor what their citizens see. When the countries do this they are not assisting the country, they are leading it into a self-destruction. A good example of this would be America in Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451. This nation is destroyed in a futuristic war that only lasts a couple of minutes, if not seconds. Other fitting examples include the Nazi regime and the Soviet Union, both governments censoring their population in what they could read, write, and see. As we know both of these governments did not succeed and ultimately were obliterated and the countries were punished. Government censorship not only wounds the ability for people to grow and expand in their thought process, but it eventually causes the ultimate self-destruction of the nation.

In addition, “protecting” children from the difficulties of the world through censorship isn’t teaching them anything. They are just becoming more narrow-minded, shallow, and even less human. The information in books does not injure young people, they just open up their minds to new things and new ways. Such as in Fahrenheit 451, the people were not protected by censorship, but in the end they were hurt by it. I think that it is up to the parents to educate their children that just because they say it in a book, does not mean he or she should do or feel the same. Think about this, if we got rid of everything people object to, there would be nothing left in the world. Also with censorship, children are not being exposed to the “real world,”

Censorship has been around for millions of years. Although censorship is still practised in some countries today, almost anyone would agree that censorship is never the right answer; as we have seen in the past, it has seldomly ever works out. Which is why it is so concerning that schools are starting to allow censorship in classrooms. As a result of this, the world is seeing an alarming amount of young millennials who are fresh into the workforce, expecting to always be catered to. More and more millennials are not being properly prepared for the real world due to censorship in schools; schools have been giving in and catering to students by allowing the censoring of books and microaggressions in the classroom, as a result the students are being taught that the world will cater to everyone, which is very inaccurate.

There are various reasons as to why censorship is used. They include: security purposes, prevent hate speech, to protect vulnerable communities and also to counter unethical religious and political views. Censorship is currently being used for both political and social purposes. Most of these reasons for censorship are not absolute because they hinder people’s freedom of expression and speech. This confirms my argument that censorship is bad in the modern world. Despite some aspects considering censorship to be good, there are several aspects that promote my argument that censorship is bad thus its advantageous nature.

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.

Censorship in U.S. law occurs if the media displays excessive or graphic violence, has mature content that is not appropriate for young audiences or contains matters that are kept secret for national security or public safety. How ever censorship in American communities is driven by the belief of the community. It is best seen in American schools like the banning of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. The book was first banned in Concord, MA in 1885, people in this community banned the book because they believed that the book was racist for its use of the N word. Other communities like in Kansas banned the teaching of evolution in public schools. Censorship could have a negative effect in

Lastly, there are those parents and republicans who are for censorship and say that censorship should stay. Some of their reasoning are that it protects the children from racial themes, strong language, and violence. It could also lead to children misbehaving and being raised the wrong way. Nevertheless, books are books and children will eventually learn how the world really is. That’s is why if censorship continues, it’ll hold back a child’s learning

If one parent censors a book, because they do not want their child to read it, every kid looses the opportunity to read it. Some parents want to censor too much for their kids. What these parents do not realize is that it makes the child un prepared. If you give someone rose colored glasses to shield them from all the red flags of the world, all the red flags just end up looking like flags. Censorship hurts a child. The American Association of School Administrators states “Censorship is defined as the removal, suppression, or restricted circulation of literary, artistic, or educational material”. Since when does that sound like a good decision. Censorship can only further destroy our fragile society.

Censorship is necessary to protect children from the internet. Internet censorship is subjected to government control of the ideas and information that can be accessed, published, or viewed on the internet by the society. We do not want the future generations to be exposed to violence, sex, hate, illegal substances, and false information. Children get easily influenced by the content they search, watch or read, which could be dangerous. The children should not be allowed to access these dangerous and inappropriate information. If today’s generation is viewing these things right now, it could mean that future generation can also view it and become more violent and this could cause the world to become more dangerous than it already is. Censorship

The United States of America was built under the notion of freedom and the right of free speech plays a big part in the evolution of American society. The First Amendment of the Constitution guarantees the freedom to read and write books that might be considered unsuitable by others. Whether the subject might be too violent, hateful, or offensive anyone has the right to read whatever subject matter they want. Censorship or the attempt to disrupt the flow of information consumed by people is a disservice to the fundamental rights of the American people. The best example of censorship is the banning of books because it is a guaranteed way to stifle a person’s individual thought. Receiving information should be encouraged despite the content and the children should be given free rein to read whatever they want.