Media Censorship around the World

Modern society faces many controversial issues that previous generations could not have possibly imagined. These issues seem to evolve with the culture and recur in new form as each generation moves on in time. For example, censorship is an issue that generations have struggled to resolve since the dawn of media and the publication of documents. Today, censorship is an important part of our world because of its ability to let parents block out or allow certain material to reach their children, its controversial stand on the freedom of press and freedom of speech rights of human beings, and its demonstration of who or what has the power at hand to control what enters the public media.

America is very fortunate that the media censorship is not as controlling as it is in autocratic countries like, Russia, Iran, or China. These countries control it by eradicating critical news and building state media brands, but we are limited to what the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) allows to be broadcasted. I believe that the words we speak and media we are exposed to, should not be censored. Although some supporters of media censorship argue that the government has the right to choose what we see, a closer examination shows that media censorship proves to be unjust because the public should know what is occurring in the world, we're only exposed to half-truths, and hiding the truth hurts the interpretation of reality. Censoring

Is there too much censorship in america, are your kids not allowed to share their mind with the world because of people getting offended over a joke or a misunderstanding. People all through history have been writing free speech to prove a point or for justice or freedom against the government to make a change for the better. But now if you have an opinion some won’t even express you feeling through social media because it will offend people or creators of the website will block the pager or use because their agist there opinion on the matter. Even some parents won’t let their children watch cartoon that are meant for kids because of the creator being homosexal or them no beliveing in the same religion. Some people we hate or distreat that person and won’t let them speak their mind or are be treated the same because of their religion,color or gender appel.

Public media is virtually the largest outlet to gain insight and recognize various viewpoints and opinions, Restricting these outlets would directly affect and practically ridicule the knowledge that everyone has the right to have.

There has been much debate about the commonwealth’s and the Australian communications and media authority’s campaign to give the Internet censorship that is not required. For reasons such as freedom to talk about ideas, to talking to people around the world. In china there are estimated to be around 30 thousand police surfing the web, covering up websites the government does not want you looking up. Things such as just searching up “human rights” will bring you to a page that says you cannot access, and this is mainly the cause of communism.

In a world in which acts of heinous violence, murder or crude and shocking behavior seem to be a normal occurrence, it may lead one to wonder what has put society onto this slippery slope. How did this type of behavior come to be so acceptable and in some cases glorifiable? A careful study of society may lead to multi media as being the main cause in this changing of ideals. The modern world has become desensitized to the acts shown on television, movies, video games or printed in newspapers and magazines. Censorship must be employed if morals and decency are to be preserved.

“Censorship is the control of what people may say, hear, write, read, see, or do.” All around the word censorship comes in various forms, the four major types of censorship consist of moral, military, political, and religious censorship. At whatever point an administration or private group feels jeopardized by free expression, it may swing to restriction to secure their fundamental beliefs. Every civilization, including equitable ones, has had some sort of restriction when its rulers have felt it would profit the country or themselves. The type of censorship mostly found in undemocratic countries would be political censorship. “Political Censorship is used by governments that fear the free expression of criticism and opposing ideas.”

Censorship is not limited to repressive regimes or network television. Weather we know it or not censorship is happening all the time throughout the day. We censor ourselves, we listen to censored music and as students we see the internet being heavily censored in school. The Children’s Internet Protection Act (CIPA) was signed into law in 2000; the law requires any public schools or library to filter any inappropriate content from the computers being used by minors. Since the law has been put in place, schools across America have installed programs that use keywords to designate certain types of websites off-limits to students while using the schools internet server. The problem with these filtering programs is that they block many sites that are not pornographic or obscene in nature, Instead they tend to block sites dealing with controversial but not inappropriate content. Although the CIPA was created to protect, it has been used as a soft form of censorship in schools.

Censorship is a way of keeping everyone, and everything to a certain information limitation. We live in a country that is supposedly a free country of speech and public communication. However, we all know that censorship laws were implemented as a way for the government and higher heads to keep certain information, and certain people, and press as well contained as much possible. Supposedly, it is for the best interest of society. Invasion of privacy is doing something without the owner’s authorization or consent to do so. Both are basically the same in many ways. For example, the government can spy on anyone at any time without their consent to such action.

I think one major social problem is the culture of censorship that has been seen in the most youth today (trying to keep the free speech theme). We've seen time and time groups that are almost entirely youth, like the new Antifa movement, who are violently against freedom of speech (even though they call themselves anarchists, which is a bit hyperbolic, since you need a state to enforce banned speech). A poll conducted by pew research found that 40% of millennials are okay with some level of censorship of speech, that's the highest of any other generational bracket (pew asked millennials, Gen X, baby boomers, and silents), in fact, the poll revealed that the farther down you went the generational line, the more that generation supported speech

According to the Oxford Dictionary,The suppression or prohibition of any parts of books, films, news, etc. that are considered obscene, politically unacceptable, or a threat to security.” Simply, censorship is restricting or hiding information so it cannot be accessed by others. Ray Bradbury uses the novel to show concern with the idea of censorship and how it might affect the society. The theme of censorship is obvious through the banning and burning of books. In the first part of the novel, it becomes obvious that censorship began among the citizens of their society. At first they only censored the books that made people think and contemplate ideas that could result in obeying the law. However, they censored all books, which the

Censorship is the suppression or prohibition of any parts of books, films, news, etc. that are considered obscene, politically unacceptable, or a threat to security. There are good reasons why censorship is used, such as some information might have to be censored for the content it might display and cause a disturbance. Countries try not abuse the fact they are allowed to do this because they are the ones who create the rules. However, China is abusing this fact and has been doing it to the point people are fearing what they can post or use on the internet. This issue was brought up because it has many different types of medians that express why it is important for the safety of free speech. Firstly, the discussion will start off with why is censorship good and bad. Secondly, it converses the three main types of medians that display this problem are featured articles, videos, and letters. Censorship is great when it is used properly but can go too far when in the wrong hands.

In our modern world, most world leaders tend to argue against media censorship and the suppression of one of our most basic human right, freedom of expression. We live in a globalized society, that shares news and information in matter of seconds, with newspapers, a blog post, a Facebook opinion or with a 140-character block called Tweet. If we have the accessibility to these outlets, which most of us do, we can learn about the result of the presidential election in Peru or we can learn about the dreads of the war in the Middle East. All of these seem so obvious and practical for us, yet we have not experienced the suffering and struggle the people of China or Cuba have suffered and keep suffering. It is inconceivable for government leaders to continue enforcing such deterrent regulations that halt the overall progress of that affected society in economic, political and social terms. Therefore, this essay will examine the powerful issues caused by media censorship and the harm it does on the development of a globalized society.

Censorship is very important in relation to a nation, “It restrains vulgarity and obscenity” (Pillai). It helps the nation against any danger. First, it protects military information that could be used for evil, then, it can also help on controlling panic and rumors throughout a nation, “A similar case was observed in India in 2008 when terrorists attacked The Taj Mahal Palace Hotel in Mumbai” (Pillai). Finally, censorship preserves the secrets of the entire nation, secrets that could put nations in danger (Pillai). Censorship can lead to a peaceful society by protecting our secrets from those who want to harm us.

Media censorship has been both powerful and controversial issue throughout history of mankind. Every countries’ citizens have had their lives affected by the way their government controls and censors what they see in the media. People around the world react to censorship differently due to the country they live in. Some people were born in a place with little censorship while others were born in a country where the government has complete control over everything. This can impact the way a person develops as some people will believe everything they hear and others will question everything they see and hear. Media censorship has been used effectively to control how citizens’ view on the world in Nazi Germany and in the USSR, but social