Censorship: Is it ever Permissible to Restrain Speech?
"Censorship." The word is such a powerful one that to many Americans the idea of any type of censorship seems to be the worst human rights violation imaginable. After all, if speech is controlled, how can people express differing political views and bring about desired social change? This viewpoint of the primary importance of free speech in a free society is a very American approach to the concept of censorship. However, as the internet has made it possible for people to cross country and boundaries with simply the click of a mouse, more and more people are becoming aware that American ideals of free speech are hardly universal. In other countries, some human rights are seen as even more important than the freedom of speech. This paper will explore the concept of free speech as it exists in America, limitations on free speech…...

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Works Cited

Allen, Jennifer and George Norris. "International Comparisons of Approaches to Hate Speech."

Race, Racism, and the Law. 1-5. 2011. Web. 14 Nov. 2012.

Freedom Forum. "Limits of Freedom of Speech." Education for Freedom. N.p. 2012. Web.

14 Nov. 2012.

Censorship -- Pro
The First Amendment has been part of the Bill of Rights since the creation of the Constitution in 1789. It was created to ensure that people would be able to express their ideas, whether they be political or religious, without fear of repercussion from the government. The Amendment would create a country where people could practice their own religion without fear of persecution like their ancestors did in England. The Amendment has protected the country from descending into various forms of censorship. Members of the press can publish information and opinions about political leaders and others without being stifled should their opinion make someone in the political arena look bad. However, there is also a darker side to the First Amendment. The right to peaceful assembly and freedom of speech has been used to ensure that books about pedophilia and child molestation can be published even if they…...

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Works Cited:

Manson, Marilyn. "Columbine: Whose Fault is it?" The Conscious Reader. 12th edition.

Longman. 2011. Print.

Taylor, Charles. "The Morality Police." The Conscious Reader. 12th edition. Longman. 2011.

Print.

Censorship on the Internet
Kaul, V. (2012). "he pros and cons of new media and media freedom." Journal of Mass Communication and Journalism, Vol. 2, Issue 5.

In his research study, author-researcher Kaul discussed the implications of using the Internet technology in launching what is called the new media, both in the context of journalistic/press freedom and freedom of expression of the civil society in general. More specifically, the author provided a comparison of the "old" (traditional) versus "new" (Internet/online) media, considering both as tools for freedom of expression, albeit the latter is more accessible. However, the article also discussed how the rise of the new media has not 'revolutionized' press freedom in some countries (namely, countries in South Asia and South Africa). What Kaul emphasized is the proliferation of new media as a replacement of old media, but without the expected improvement in press freedom. Instead, what occurred is a simple…...

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The rise of the Internet as an influential and central source of information globally has even permeated countries such as China, wherein Internet content is highly regulated by the government. In the analysis conducted by Hom et al., the authors acknowledged that the Internet technology has spurred governments like the Chinese government to take radical actions to censor online content in the country, while at the same time, other countries, including developed ones in the North American and European regions, are confronting issues of "global governance" online. Thus, while the authors call for "relaxed control" of the Chinese government of online content as a form of recognizing human rights (the right to freedom of expression and right to information), they also recognize the need for governance of online content across all countries in the world taking advantage of and benefiting from Internet technology.

Karhula, P. (2011). "What is the effect of WikiLeaks for freedom of information?" International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA).

Karhula centered his discussion on the issue of WikiLeaks as a case for analyzing freedom of expression and right to information using the online platform. In discussing the specifics of the WikiLeaks incident, Karhula argued that the WikiLeaks case is compelling in that it begs the question of whether information leakage about government conspiracies, inappropriate conduct, and even corruption would be best "leaked" or accessed through a public, online forum. The author questions if the WikiLeaks case actually contributes to the "kind of transparency which would support democracy and civil society." It is possible that while it gave online users the information it needed about specific political and economic issues of the world, it could also pose as a propaganda mechanism that seeks to discredit governments and public officials from various governments all over the world. At present, the WikiLeaks case remains a compelling case for governments and civil societies to scrutinize and rethink about the way information is regulated and proliferated online.

Censorship in Music
Censorship Under the Guise of Protecting the Children

Rock and Roll Culture

Hip Hop Culture

Is Censorship in Music Viable and Does it Make a Difference?

There have been many attempts by society control music. Governmental statutes, agency regulations, business controls and parents have all tried to censor the music. Sometimes they have succeeded and sometimes they have not. The examination of various aspects of rock and rap music censorship involves general societal reactions to new and alien music, racism, governmental responses, media outlets such as Rolling Stone magazine and the New York Times, and the music industry itself. Each of these serve as gatekeepers, veritable controllers of the music and lyrics that make their way out into our collective consciousness.

Rock and roll has become a prime target for the censorship campaigns of a wide range of special interest lobbies, including religious, political, economic, and musical. Such vehement opposition, whether well intentioned…...

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Works Cited

Clockwork Orange in Central Park" 1989, U.S. News & World Report, 8 May, p. 10.

Bar Protest Songs from Europe GI's" 1965, Variety, Aug., p. 1.

Berry, C. & Wolin, D. 1985, "Comment, Regulating Rock Lyrics: A New Wave of Censorship?" Harvard Journal on Legislation, vol. 23, no. 2, p. 606.

Betz, C. 1986, The Story of Rock, Oxford University Press, New York.

Censorship: An Overview and Analysis of Lord of the Flies
Censorship involves suppression of intellectual freedom and free speech based on the notion that a work, piece of art or literary masterpiece violates some social or moral order. Lord of the Flies is an example of a literary work that has been censored and that has caused controversy in society for many reasons over time. Lord of the Flies like many other works including Huckleberry Finn has been banned in many states, libraries and cities throughout time at one point or another for a variety of reasons. The causes of censorship and the reasons for censorship in Lord of the Flies in particular are discussed below.

Overview of Censorship

Censorship has been defined as many things, including restrictive, abrasive and simply wrong. Many people in the United States feel that censorship restricts their right to free speech as guaranteed by the Constitution and…...

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References

Abraham, Henry J. "Censorship." International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences.

1968 ed. ALA Office for Intellectual Freedom Data

Abula. "Bulletin 43 over censored books in the U.S.A." 1996. American Library

Association. 4, November 2004:  http://home.nvg.org/~aga/bulletin43.html

In short, individuals in favor of an increase in government control over censorship recognize that they must necessarily walk a fine line between their aims and violating American's freedoms of expression. However, they stress the dual responsibility of our government: to both uphold our rights and our moral codes. Kimball concludes, "Society had an interest in protecting free speech and free circulation of ideas. It also has an interest in protecting the moral sensibility of its citizens, especially the young. Freedom without morality degenerates into the servitude of libertinage." (Roleff 21). Still, it is difficult to make a case as to why the government in particular should be the entity that makes the ultimate moral decisions of society, when they have explicitly limited themselves from such pronouncements within the Constitution.
An opposing viewpoint has been put forward writer Paul Masters who insists, "Today, the charge down that path [towards governmental…...

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Bibliography

Phillips, Peter. (2004). Censored 2004: Media Democracy in Action. New York: Seven Stories.

Roleff, Tamara L. (2002). Censorship: Opposing Viewpoints. San Diego: Greenhaven.

Censorship
Looks at the history of the U.S.A. And the stand they have taken for long on the issue of censorship and the general intention of censorship from the historical times.

Gives details on censorship and examples where it has been used and created wide controversy. The body also gives the response by the government and the responsible agencies to issues to do with censorship. It also gives the responsibility of the government is ensuring censorship is instilled to protect citizens such as the children.

Wraps up the hitherto arguments and points to the children as the central figures that should be considered when maters to do with censorship are being discussed.

The United States of America is known the world over as a democratic country where every citizen is guaranteed of freedom of speech. There have been emotive debates regarding whether censorship laws should be institutionalized in a country like the U.S. whose…...

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However, proponents of this school of thought have failed to realize that some children have a way of walking around the rules set out for them by their parents. They also assume that parents will always be around their kids to facilitate the blocking and the parental controls. With the advent of electronic gadgets these children, without censorship laws in place, will stray into the internet and access pornographic material. Opponents of censorship have vilified the government for assuming that they don't have capacity to choose what they want to watch and hear. They have even pointed at the provisions of the First Amendment to the constitution that guarantees the citizens the freedom of speech arguing that censorship constricts creative expression. They have; however, failed to appreciate that the rights that we enjoy come with responsibilities. It is very possible that one can entertain without being obscene.

Conclusion

It is not in order for a television channel to air live incidences of terrorist attacks. What could be happening in this computer era had it not been for Child Online Protection Act (1998). Minors could now be accessing be harmful material online. With censorship, libraries and schools have been obligated to install antipornography filters on computers to protect minors from inappropriate content. Children can no longer access obscene art and literature courtesy of censorship laws. Without censorship our society's social and moral fabric would be in dilemma.

Censorship in Canada
An Analysis of the Arguments for and against the Censorship of Pornography

The issue of censorship in Canada is one that, as in the U.S. And the U.K., has inspired a significant amount of debate. There are many facets to this debate, which range from the rights of free speech to the harmful effects of obscenity in the public forum. One of the biggest targets of censorship is pornography. This paper will examine the arguments for and against the censorship of pornography from a Canadian legal perspective, and it will also provide a brief comparison of Canadian law to U.S. And U.K. laws.

A orking Definition

Before condemning or even censoring pornography, one must have a definition of it. Perhaps the most famous modern definition of pornography comes from the American court case Jacobellis v. Ohio, in which Justice Stewart stated, "I can't define pornography, but I know it when I…...

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Works Cited

Casavant, Lyne; Robertson, James. "The Evolution of Pornography Law in Canada."

Parliament of Canada. 2007. Web. 12 Oct 2011.

Currie, Dawn. "Censorship and Pornography in Canada." Canadian Review of Social

Policy, 26, 1990. Print.

Censorship
The banning of books, or literary censorship, is nothing new in the. The idea is that there are certain books, works of art, speeches, or entertainment that, through political, religious, or moral means, offend the sensibilities of the general populace and therefore should be removed from public circulation. This can be adopted on a national, regional, or state level; for instance a certain book may be banned from a local library but not be on a censored list for the state or country. In fact, almost every country, at one time or another in its history, placed some sort of restriction on what may or may not be published, printed, or distributed. There are a variety of reasons for this -- materials are often banned due to the perception of obscenity -- sexuality, race, drugs, social standing, or critiques of the government. Governments often ban certain books because they perceive…...

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REFERENCES

"Book Censorship." March 2009. Lehigh University Celebrates the First. October 2010 .

Day, N. Censorship, or Freedom of Expression? New York: 21st Century Books, 2001.

Scheilfer, M. "Bible Possession Once Banned." April 2002. Hol.com. October 2010 .

Steffens, B. Censorship. New York: Lucent, 2004.

This is about the nature of being. This is what life is all about. I try to read as widely as I possibly can." (L'Engle)
Nancy-Lou Patterson notices that A rinkle in Time is, in its structure and meaning, a Christian fantasy:

In LEngle's works, as in the works of other Christian fantasists, the narrative gains its dynamism from the creative and attractive powers of the good characters. There is a dialectic in Christian literature in which the meeting of good and evil results in more and better good. The plot is always precisely this, that the corruption of the good created world by the forces of antibeing proves to be a felix culpa, a happy fault, whereby the action of God brings a new good, a new creation, even out of evil." (Bloom, 73)

This was the most powerful reason that led to the banishing of the book, because it was…...

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Works Cited

Bloom, Harold, ed. Women Writers of Children's Literature. Philadelphia: Chelsea House, 1998

Foerstel, Herbert N. Banned in the U.S.A.: A Reference Guide to Book Censorship in Schools and Public Libraries. Westport: Greenwood Press, 2002

L'Engle, Madeleine. A Wrinkle in Time. New York: Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 1962

Special Message from Madeleine L'Engle.  http://www.powells.com/biblio/0440498058

One of the few resistant young people, a girl named Clarisse, sums up society as follows: "People don't talk about anything…nobody says anything different from anyone else" (31). Most individuals are so drugged into believing that momentary pleasures are all that matter, they cannot feel compassion any more: "Time to think? If you're not driving a hundred miles per hour, at a clip where you can't think of anything else but the danger, then you're playing some game or sitting in some room where you can't argue with the four wall televisor. hy? The televisor is 'real.' It is immediate, it has dimension. It tells you what to think and blasts it in. It must be right. It seems so right. It rushes you on so quickly to its own conclusions your mind hasn't time to protest, 'hat nonsense!" (84).
The surveillance of the society in Fahrenheit 451 is complete:…...

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Work Cited

Bradbury, Ray. Fahrenheit 451. New York: Ballantine Books, 1987.

Of course, this case highlights the tension inherent in any public support for art, because Giuliani's contention was that "you don't have a right to government subsidy for desecrating somebody else's religion" (Barry & Vogel 560). By singling out the potential offensive that religious people might take, Giuliani reveals the truth that any official support for art is inherently problematic, because art exists to challenge the very ideological structures which hold up the official state.
Despite nominal movements toward a separation of church and state, Christian ideology still holds an unhealthy sway over American politics, so it is only natural that the mayor of the United States' largest city would find a work that challenges Christianity offensive, because that is similarly a challenge to the political order which has served to perpetuate and protect Christian ideology. Thus, while no one can claim a right to public funding for the arts,…...

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Works Cited

Barry, Dan, and Carol Vogel. "Giuliani vows to cut subsidy over "sick" art." New York

Times [New York] 23 Sep 1999, n. pag. Print.

Wilde, Oscar. The Picture of Dorian Gray. London: 1891.

Then, the second right being infringed by censorship is that of proper information. It is however true that the students can find the information on all media channels; but it is also true that a respectable high school newspaper has the obligation of presenting the facts as they are. "Indeed, it wasn't only student journalists who were hurt [...]; it also was their readers, particularly students who might have limited exposure to newspapers or magazines at home. y showing them how an investigative story or a lively opinion section can add to their understanding of the school they attend, an ambitious, uncensored student newspaper teaches principles that are essential to a free society: the importance of skepticism, criticism and empiricism; the necessity of checks on authority; the centrality of open debate to democratic culture" (Just, 2008)

The third right being violated by abusive censorship is that of a proper education and…...

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Bibliography

Just, Richard, Unmuzzling High School Journalists, Washington Post, January 12, 2008

U.S. Constitution: First Amendment, Retrieved from Find Law,   January 22, 2008http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/data/constitution/amendment01/on 

Another avenue of Internet censorship is the censoring of pornography, which is most often done in the name of 'protecting the children' (Dvorak, 2005). Legislators and concerned lobbying groups around the world, but especially in the United States, have taken it upon themselves to foist their own morals and dogmas on the swatch of the Internet by limiting the access individuals have to pornographic material. But the claims that this can be done to protect minors is ludicrous at best. Currently, children begin using the Internet in the West at young ages and have access to information never before imagined. No filter, no legislation, no amount of censorship will have the effect of utterly shielding these children from pornography. Socially, the more effective tactic would be to simply talk with children and correctly parent them according to the value (or lack thereof, as the case may be) of pornography. Censoring…...

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References

Dvorak, J.C. (2005, December 27). Net censorship and democracy's fall. PC Magazine, 24(23), p. 63.

Media oppression hits cyberspace. (2003, December). Women in Action, 3, pp. 65-67.

Quirk, M. (2006, May). The web police. The Atlantic Monthly, 297(4), pp. 50-51.

Censorship in the U.S. media
Increasing competition for survival and pressures for making profit led the media to resort to lower quality content which seems harmful to the society, which necessitated the authorities to censor the media.

Censorship refers to the regulation of speech and other types of human expression, sometimes with reference to the government regulations. It normally prevails upon the actions that take place in public settings and normally relates to repression of them by culminating their expression. he censorship extends from particular words to complete concepts and the purported aim of censorship is to normalize or develop the society over which government has regulation. he origin of censorship is seen in England with introduction of the copyright laws that entailed the crown the authority of license publishing. It forbade printing without government sanction. It is sometimes referred to as prior restraint when a court or other governmental body forbids…...

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The overwhelming public protest against crime and horror and the sexual allusions appearing in comics during 1950s led most of the major comic book publishers of America to form an Association that enforces censorship to their own comics. The Comic Code Authority, so formed forbids representation of gore, sexuality and excessive violence. It prohibits the disrespectful presentation or ridicule of the authority figures. It bans the scenes of ghouls, vampires, werewolves or zombies. It also prohibits the advertisements of liquor, tobacco, nude pin-ups, knives, fireworks, postcards and also the toilet items of questionable nature. (Comics Code Authority)

Since 1997, the TV Parental Guidelines system was introduced by the Federal Communications Commissions as a result of public outcry against the increasingly use of explicit sexual material and graphic violence and application of scatology in the television programs. The rating TV-Y indicates the contents to be suitable for young children and not intended to frighten the young children. The rating TV-Y7 indicates the contents not appropriate for children below 7 years. The rating TV-G is certifies the content to be suitable for all audiences. The TV-PG indicates the unsuitability of the contents for younger children, however entails the parents to watch with them. The rating is supplemented by one or more sub-ratings according to the content such as: - "V for moderate violence, S for mild sexual situations, L for mild questionable language, D for mild suggestive dialogue." (Television rating system) The next rating TV-14 necessitates parental guidance for children under the age of 14 years. This rating also includes sub-ratings of V, S, L and D. The rating TV-MA indicates the content suitable to mature audiences. (Television rating system)

The Entertainment Software Rating Board -- ESRB has been constituted during 1994 by the Entertainment Software Association, as a self-regulatory organization that is responsible for application and enforcement of advertising procedures, rating and online privacy principles for video games and computer use in the U.S.

A literacy narrative is a type of autobiographical essay in a modified narrative essay format. It focuses on a person’s own experience with one or more aspects of literacy including speaking, writing, or reading. Your literacy narrative relates a personal experience and should help explain your development as a communicator, even if not as a writer or reader.

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