Censorship by definition, according to Webster’s American Dictionary, is “the act or process of suppressing what is controversial.” Censorship is used to prevent the youth from being exposed to controversial material. However, it prevents one from truly expressing themselves and violates their freedom of speech, not their freedom of non-controversial speech.

Some believe that if one sees or hears someone discuss a controversial act on mass media it will influence the audience to

commit that controversial act. The argument of why censorship should exist has for the most part been based on this fact alone. Though it has been proven to be true in some cases, the majority of people who see or hear a controversial act committed on mass media do not commit this same controversial act in reaction. The few people who do commit the same controversial act they were exposed to over mass media often have other factors influencing their decision to do so. The Colorado school shootings were mostly blamed on Marilyn Manson for his controversial three-minute music videos involving a school shooting, not the years of abuse the children received from their peers for not participating in their social trends.

Throughout each generation the limits of what we call “controversial

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