Censorship

Censorship

Censorship is when something is changed or deleted because of personal opinions. I believe some forms of censorship are good but other forms of censorship aren’t.

Censorship can be good when it can cause harm to someone or change someone’s belief so that they believe something without seeing both sides of the issue. This should not be interpreted as that causing harm to someone is seeing violence and nudity. Those features are just decided by the viewer whether they enjoy that sort of viewing material and do not cause any harm to anyone. What can cause harm are comments which insult certain features of a person, like skin colour or religion. I think these comments should be banned from TV, because even though they can be funny they often cause hurt feelings to the people they are about. An example of this is the publishing in the Danish newspaper insulting Islam which caused riots and Danish embassies being burnt. Another form of censorship is age restrictions which can be useful because sometimes if the person who is getting the restricted product is too young he can have his views changed. This can happen in violent, realistic games.

Censorship can also be bad when it is restricting information or it is censored because of a few radical people. Restricting information is one of the worst forms of censorship because it deliberately causes peoples views to be different without them knowing. I think censorship should only happen when the individual involved agrees that it should for themselves, not by their parents or relatives. An example of restricting information is in communist China where people are not allowed to know about the Tiananmen Square massacre. Censorship I think needs to be an option for any object. This would mean you could watch a movie in either censored mode or uncensored mode. If this were to happen it would mean both sides could be