Friday 11 March 2011

Censor the Censors, W.A. 3

Censorship is the basic way that government's try to limit what their citizens read, learn and understand. It is a terrible way of limiting a person's understanding of what they're going to see because a) Somebody took a lot of time to create that piece, b) If something's censored it only peaks people's curiosity as to why it's censored... making more people want to see it. If an idea or concept in the piece is considered either too mature or has some controversial themes then it should have a rating, just like movies and video games rather than a censor. A human should not be forbidden to gain knowledge from a piece, just because a message that the government doesn't agree with is written down, doesn't necessarily mean it will be believed, rather, it helps expand the cititzen's world view and understand what other people think of their nation. Censorship in the sense of Adult themes and content is also pointless because most readers are adults and parents can limit what their children read if they really want to. These are themes that are found in real life and shouldn't be censored. The censors are wrong and are the bourgeoise way that companies and governments want to restrict knowledge. The censors should be censored and the people should be free!

1 comment:

  1. While there is a definitely a place for censorship (we don't need children or young adults reading things that would introduce ideas that were not intended for their consideration), censorship, as you stated, sometimes backfires and draws more attention to the text. For example, a lot of teens might want to try playing a rated M video game just because they want to see WHY it was rated M.

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