Restricted Teens

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.

The film industry was like a toddler learning to walk. The community found it necessary to guide that walk according to its beliefs and values. Above all, a concerted effort was made to protect children. That was perhaps the good thing that arose out of the censorship of the early film theaters content. It is easy to understand the logic and the need to monitor content that would have an impact on children

President Herbert Hoover once said that, "Children are our most valuable resource." Everybody knows the saying “The children are our future.” If everyone knows this saying than why are parents exposing our future to inappropriate and explicit content. This is because most people do not realize the explicit content their children are being exposed to. The shows, movies, and even commercials children are watching effect not only their actions and thought process but can also effect the future decisions and choices they make. From the day we are born to the day we die we have seen many different movies and seen many different TV shows; while we are watching and hearing these through our own eyes and ears we do not truly realize what our brains are consuming, because in reality we are viewing and hearing much more than we can naturally see.

The MPAA’s movie rating system has been progressively allowing movies to teach children immoral values and something must be done to fix this. The different topics on which the MPAA base their ratings on have skewed standards. One

Children are also drawn to more mature programs in order to make them feel older and more mature by watching them, which is why the swearing and nudity need to be cut out. I support this view mainly because of an experience I had when I was about five years old. I snuck into the TV room without my parents knowing, and when I was flipping through the channels, I stopped on a channel that was showing the movie Die Hard. Just from watching a short segment of that movie, I quickly learned the “f” word and said it in class the next day. This initial view on censorship is significant because it can prevent children, who are the most influenced by TV, from practicing what they see. They will not learn these words or actions at an early age, like I did, and therefore will not get into trouble in school or teach them to other children. The downside to this stance is that it violates the right of freedom of speech.

Many would agree that these types of movies create many different fantasies and lead people to act out what they see in movies on others in real life. Some others would suggest that parents should watch movies with their children and get them involved with after school programs, and teaching them about their culture. I strongly agree with those suggestions, if parents fail their children it is a strong possibility that they will grow up to be serial killers. Revenge on society is terrible due to early abuse and rejection which has taught them passivity. Only in their world violent fantasies do they feel real and alive. What they go out in do to their victims is beyond unreal.

Kids In Mind, a ratings analysis service, uses 3 main categories to rate movies. Sex/nudity, violence, and profanity are each graded on a 10 point scale. This helps viewers make an informed decision about the content they will be exposed to. The hypothesis is that R-rated movies will have higher occurrences of content in these categories than the PG-13-rated movies. This sample includes 42 movies, most of which were released in 2011. Half were given a rating of PG-13 and the other half were rated R. Below is the statistical summary from the data that was collected.

One of the major reasons why the MPAA rating system is unfair is the fact that everyone has different views on violence. The rating system is designed to measure how different parents react to different types of movies and by doing this, every parent will react differently depending on their opinions towards what is being shown (Wilson). Some parents are okay with a little violence while others are more strict. Another example is video games, some parents may allow their child to play the more violent and gory games while other parents strongly prohibit their child from playing those games; the same thing goes for movies; it just depends on how the parent feels about the subject.

All it will do is make them want to watch the movie more. Rating and cencering a movie is easy but, stopping underaged people from watching is hard. Just because the rating is put on the movie and a age is applied doesn’t mean kids and teens won’t watch it at all. What adults aren’t seeing is that youth listen to everyone. Youth picks up on things and can easily learn about explicit

I love rated-R movies because they are actually interesting and keep me in the edge of my seat. If this movie wasn't as blunt as it is I probably wouldn’t like it. Usually I would recommend R movies to 10 and up, but I saw it before when I was younger. I had no idea what was going on, and I didn’t understand the message it was sending. So I would probably recommend it to 14 and up, for some children won’t see the message. MPAA rated Training Day rated-R, for it’s brutal violence, pervasive language, drug content, and brief nudity. Overall this is a entertaining movie that doesn’t disappoint. 9/11 would watch

Teens behave from what is portrayed on TV, especially television shows such as Teen Mom, Real World and the infamous Jersey Shore. While there are parental controls that block children from watching these shows, teens always find a way to watch. Teens from 13-17 watch these shows which are highly inappropriate for their age group. In the beginning of Jersey Shore, it states “parental vision advised, and that should be a warning to the parents that this isn’t a show for a child watch. Looking at Jersey Shore, an evaluation on whether the content from the Jersey Shore is good or bad for the age group 13- 17 to watch considering the language used, the sexual and violent content, and whether they pick up these behaviors from Jersey Shore. The content

Well it’s as easy as buying a fresh drink from the dollar store. Minors can enter an illegal age number, and he can have access to as much as an actual adult can, including Chat rooms, Pornography, explicated music and videos with extreme violence. Therefore media should be censored so that we are able to keep minors away from things that are inappropriate to them, and stop the breeding of these negative behaviors.

In order to establish a group that censors televisions and movies, the Motion Picture Producers Association (MPAA) was created. Each rating category has a description of the appropriate age at which to view the film and whether or not a parent’s accompaniment is necessary. The Motion Picture Producers Association assesses a film and gives it a rating of G (general audiences), PG (parental guidance suggested), PG-13 (parents strongly cautioned), R (restricted), or NC-17 (no one under seventeen admitted). As the film industry has been changing over time, so have the ratings. More and more parents are having issues with the ratings that some films are issued. “The man behind the ratings, Jack Valenti, president of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), says the system works just fine. ‘Parents use it and trust it, and that's why it's lasted for almost 35 years,’ Valenti says. ‘It warns parents in advance about what's in a particular movie, but ultimately, parents are responsible for the behavior and conduct of their children — not the ratings system’ (Hansen 273).”

There are many things in violent video games which minors should not watch, for example sexuality. It is not something that the parents would want their teen or child to be looking at in a game. It is their responsibility to stop this from happening by looking at what they are getting for their child. they should not blindly buy what their child wants.

Negative effects of Mass Media for teenagers,  The exposure of sex images and excessive portraits of violence in movies and dramas have instilled negative thoughts and taboos in the mind of these teenagers for they have been consistently getting increased exposure to things which are not suitable for their age.