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What is censorship?Suppressing communication or media Types of items censored
Two forms of censorship
Three levels of censorship
Moral panicPsychologists use this term to for things that are put forward by moral crusaders to explain moral decline and violent crime in society.
Moral panics have included rock music, video games, video nasties and porn.
Violence is actually decreasing in our society according to statistics which people ignore for emotional reasons because they are primed by the media.
Quote 852“All silencing of discussion is an assumption of infallibility.” -- John Stuart MillAttitudes to censorship"Freedom is the right to tell people what they don't want to hear" - George Orwell People do so love being told what they can watch, eat, wear etc for their own good. Just try it on someone and see how they react.
Funnily enough people don't seem to mind censorship when it applies to what others want. But then seem surprised when no-one supports them when they want a censorship removed. Governments attitude
MotivesIt seems there are two main motives of censorship. 1) To protect the public from ideas 2) To protect the rulers from the public
Is it o.k to take offence by proxy? What's wrong with censorship?Oppression is not hearing a word that offends you. Oppression is being told you can't say certain words because you may offend someone else.  Should something be censored? Under what criteria should something be censored, and who decides. Where do they get this right to censor things? When done right the power of censorship may be argued to have modest benefits. But when the administration falls in the hands of a leader that you disagree vehemently with, do you want them to inherent this power? Trump, Hitler, Stalin, Mao? (Two elected leaders and 2 revolutionary ones).  If it is assumed that someone or group should have the power to censor, and if its decided that certain things should be censored. How to they target and enforce that censorship. Do they censor all books to avoid a few books that may have subversive language, just censor that particular book or something in between. The first option would have huge collateral damage and the 3rd option a lesser degree of the same problem. Could they target domestic websites with subversive language, but have no jurisdiction over foreign websites. Or perhaps censoring books but not the web. Making the censorship ineffective.? Censorship is inconsistent with a liberal society. Just because people don't want to hear something, they are not entitled to gag others. How did we progress from a country where gays are prosecuted to one where they are treated as equal? Because people were free to dissent. Censorship undermines this process.
What is really censoredWhy is it necessary that we all live in protective bubble? A ban on advertising applies to everyone, that means you. The fact that you may not want to advertise is irrelevant, you can't choose to do it if you did want to do it. Effectively what has been banned is your ability to act, not just the advertising.
The same goes for anything that is banned, its not the item, or action that is banned, it is you that are banned from acting out your conscience.
Authority
Censorship deprives each individual of the capacity to decide good and evil, being surrendered to an appointed authority.
Defamation and the law prohibiting conspiracy to commit murder are not a curtailment of free speech. Please see those sections for more detail. List of books censored by country2013: The Everything Marijuana Book 2013: Here's Steve 2013: Boys Are Boys 2010: Secrets of Methamphetamine Manufacture 8th Edition 2009: Pleasant Dripping with Sweat 2000: Holiday Snapshots 2000: Eros XXX Women 1999: Topping from Below 1999: Indoor Marijuana Horticulture 1999: Marijuana Botany Countries that outlaw criticising rulersMoroccan law prohibits criticising the king, with a possible penalty of up to five years in prison for anyone who does so. LinksLink80Media Freedom Link81Blocking boobies
Link82Censorship by country
http://www.standard.co.uk/comment/we-must-be-free-to-say-what-we-want-on-social-media-8160133.html Link85Book censored in NZ Link86No criticising the king |
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