Did you ever hear anyone say, 'That work had better be banned because I might read it and it might be very damaging to me'?"
- Fire
- Elizabeth
- Eyes wide shut
- Blocking internet telephones to certain sites because they were being used toto host "obnoxious and sexually-explicit material and unacceptable language',
- Let parents decide
- Officials misusing the services
Who determines what is pornography and what is art?
The term censor is derived from the Latin word, census meaning to assess
Censoring students and censoring what students can read, view, or watch disrupts the educational cycle and breeds a definite conflict. Censorship would be more widely accepted if reasoning existed as to why censoring the material occurred in the first place. Any concept or idea becomes more valid if the rationale is understood."
The equation is simple: Those who have power get to censor, and those who lack power get silenced. If you find yourself in a position to demand and get censorship, you can be sure you are among those who have the power, and you are acting to oppress others.
. Censorship is when a work of art expressing an idea which does not fall under current convention is seized, cut up, withdrawn, impounded, ignored, maligned, or otherwise made inaccessible to its audience.
2. Censorship is when the "thought police" —whether chauvinist, fundamentalist, militant, rightist, leftist, conservative, or extremist— go about their business of silencing.
3. Censorship is not just about keeping an audience from reading, it is about keeping a writer from writing.
- And in September of 1996, the Hayward Gallary invited the police to approve of the content of their showing of Robert Mapplethorpe's photos. The cops instantly seized on his image of a young girl, "Rosie", and declared it child porn. Rosie herself, now the proprieter of a cafe in West London, expressed dismay that this innocent picture taken of her as a child could be seen by prurient-minded police as pornographic.
Indeed. The anti-child porn crowd seems unable to look at images of children without seeing pornography; they have sexualized kids to such an extent that the very idea of an innocent image no longer exists.
- Censorship of pictures involving nudity
Who defines what nudity is?
The first is government censorship, where writers or publishers are imprisoned or killed for their actions. The second type, as outlined by Munsch, is local schools and libraries censorship. In schools, censorship occurs whenever groups or individuals, attempt to prevent students from reading, hearing, or seeing something or someone because they believe that such exposure will be harmful to the students.
399 B.C. : Socrates accused "firstly, of denying the gods recognized by the State and introducing new divinities, and secondly of corrupting the young". Found guilty, he was condemned to death. Accounts of the events in Xenephon's "Memorabilia" and Plato's "Apology". The western history of censorship is said to begin here. Shivaji’s book: mentality is The core of the emergence of the new form of social censorship has only one watchword: "You cannot read what we do not like even if we have not read it"
Walmart decides not to sell music—affects the sales
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- Bandit queen
- Satanic verses
- Truth, lies and a little malice
- I cant get no satisfaction
- Puff the magic dragon
- elvis
A newspaper that refuses to run commentary the publisher disagrees with, or a lecture hall that refuses to rent itself out to a particular speaker, a mother not allowing her child to watch cartoons, the army not disclosing actual details of the war---are these acceptable forms of censorship?
Can anyone be justified in censoring individual works of wither literature, art, music which have been prepared by others?
Does society need a moral police?
