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Censors

             Censorship is all socially structured proscription or prescriptions which inhibits or prohibits dissemination of ideas, information, images or other messages through society's channels of communication whether these obstructions are secured by political, economic, religious or other systems of authority.
             Censorship has been a major issue since there has been television and radio. Some people feel that showing murders or nudity on television invades there privacy. Some other people feel that showing racism on television is also wrong. People who feel that way about racism believe that when other people see it, other people will follow by what they see on television. There are many different things that people think should be censored that has not been censored yet even though many things already have been censored on television and on the radio such as like swearing and the use of drugs being cool. .
             Some people like myself feel that we should not have censorship. It not only takes are freedom of speech but also takes away are freedom of knowledge. When everything is censored, especially the internet, it is hard to research all the aspects on a subject. Sometimes you only get one point of view on a subject which will restrict the knowledge you could gain on a certain subject. Also people feel that it takes away there freedom of speech such as communicating there ideas stated in the first amendment. .
             I feel that the government should not allow private institutions to edit movie makers original films because it changes the idea of the film. Doing that invades their privacy of the rights to their films. There has been lawsuits against private institutions that try to edit their original film. It is becoming illegal to edit an original film without the film makers consent. .
             I feel that there are many warnings on television shows, movies, video games, cds and on the internet that enables people to be aware of what they will be viewing and listening too.


Essays Related to Censors

1. Censorship of Children

... Kerry's life (Ellison 46-47). It is for children like Kerry that anti-censorship activists fight to keep children's literature on the shelves. Censors of children's books feel that they are protecting children by removing harmful reading material, yet censorship removes much more than books from a shelf. ... Thomas Harris" Red Dragon, telling of the manhunt for a serial killer who is part cannibal and part sophisticate. These are books which many censors feel are too violent and should be unavailable to student readers. Gray finds the thought of a violent book making him a violent pers...

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2. Censorship

... game allowed you to run over "little old ladies" walking down the street, and cause a lot of damage to streets and buildings and anything in your way for that matter. Censors closely reviewed the game and re released a less violent version on the market. And then of course there was Doom. Software company "Id" released Doom in 1993, the original "shoot ... , which you could pick up and sleep with. What's the deal with Censorship? Censorship, as with films and TV come in a ratings systems. Censors have been around since the beginning, before most of us were even conceived. Censors are pre...

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3. Banned Books: An Evaluative Essay

... nonfiction books, history is being distorted. Disguising a culture proves a sense of shame. Many people underestimate youthful intelligence. By assuming young readers can not understand and appreciate an author's wording, censors misjudge student intelligence. Banning a book cheats a person of enjoying a valuable part of literature. Author Kurt Vonnegut's works are often challenged because of his dull reaction and sarcastic approach to ... of the "accepted- boundaries of society. In the book Blubber by Judy Blume, the young characters curse and the cruel "ring-leader- is never punished ...

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4. Censorship Of Pornography In Canada

... a shoe fetish, for someone with this fetish a shoe can give them sexual arousal, but is that shoe actually considered porn it should not be. Pro-censors feel like there is no place in our society for such crude and dehumanizing material. MacKinnon has been quoted saying, "If pornography is part of your sexuality ... , then you have no rights to your sexuality- (Strossen 1995a:160). Pro-censors believe that porn instils the values of male dominance and female subordination, causing male power to be sexualized (Itzin 1992). In reality, pro ... this is what leads to violence towards women, ...

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5. Censorship Good or Bad?

... One of many topics that interest me is the censorship on music. One type of music that is a big target of censors, if s rock music. Rock music is a huge when it comes to censors because of the allusions to sex, drugs, alcohol, and violence. Since as early as the 1950's music censorship has had ... effect on rock music. There have been many cases of music censorship, it is nothing new. One case goes back to the mid-seventeenth century. Official censors often rewrote the operas of Giuseppe Verdi to make it appropriate for different aged groups that would either read or see his operas. His...

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6. Censorship extremes

... the beginning of television broadcasting has been to avoid government censorship. Just like movie and radio censors before them, they turned to self-censorship in their efforts to avoid censorship from outside their industry. The famous Production Code, promulgated by Will Hays' Motion ... , were risqué. Cantor was supposed to perform the song "We're Having A Baby, My Baby and Me" on the broadcast. Forty minutes before airtime NBC censors ordered Cantor to cut the song because its lyrics were offensive. Cantor argued that he did not have time to prepare another number. The ... censors ...

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7. Censorship: Freedom at its worst

... , but when it comes to something that they don't approve of, or agree with, they get to play Thomas Jefferson and switch the rules according to how they see fit. Censors, those people who decide what you get to be exposed to, are subconsciously sabotaging the 1st Amendment and, well, us! Censorship is how these ... censors control what we are exposed to, taking matters into their own hands to make sure we are safe from explicit "stuff." Censors can be politicians, angry mothers, or God fanatics who think they know what is right and wrong for us to ... or heard about, and there is nothin...

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8. Violence, Censorship and Intimidation in 1984

... , movies, letters, etc." (http://www.merriam-webster.com). In other words, censorship can be defined as not giving all information openly to the public. In the novel, the government censors information from its population. An example of censorship is The Ministry of Truth. The Ministry of Truth, is where the main character in the novel, Winston Smith, works and has ... word, with its meaning rigidly defined and all its subsidiary meanings rubbed out and forgotten...The Revolution will be complete when the language is perfect" (55). The Newspeak dictionary censors language and leads to a ...

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9. Sex,Drugs And Rock And Roll

... , and emotion. Second, and ap- parently more important, sex sells. (Nuzum 151) As time passed, artists became more and more bold, trying to push the edge of tolerance, giving the censors more of a reason to fight what they saw as the decaying of a civilization. In all actuality, a list of the 40 most sexually suggestive songs, made by music critics/analysts Cooper ... the cause of many teenage pregnancy cases. The lack of scientific evidence in support of claims like these has never been a cause for concern among most of the would-be censors, who call it their common sense that tells the...

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10. Matrix

... shows a character who portrays the creator carrying on an extended conversation with the star of the movie. Therefore, the creator is given human characteristics, if only a voice, he said. "Most (censors) are of the opinion they don't want to allow the kind of movie which touches on creator and creation. They felt that a movie portraying God in human form or voice ... would be destructive to moviegoers. " Although he is personally against banning the movie, Kassem says the vast majority of viewers are uneducated people who uncritically accept what they see. The censors also cited violen...

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