1. Censorship Essay
‘ Is censorship a good or bad idea?’
Censorship is all about deciding on what people can see and deciding on what
people can view within the media. Censorship is the suppression of speech or
other public communication, which may be considered objectionable, harmful,
sensitive or inconvenient as determined by the government, media outlet or
controlling body. It clocks out content which mainly is harmful to people and it
aims to protect children and vulnerable people by block and removing content
from media to limit and restrict what they can see. The government can retain
people from seeing content in the media by removing it and only letting the
public see what the government want them to see. Censorship can happen on a
massive level like that or on a more local level where religious school remove the
big bang from the school curriculum so the children don’t have different beliefs
on how the world started. Censorship has lots of different areas from black
inappropriate content to removing content so people only know one way or
limits their opinions on something. Censorship can be editing parts from
television/TV show out, prevention of advertising, promote/restrict
political/religious views, prevent slender and libel. Restrict information from
people.
In my opinion I believe that censorship is a good thing but it depends on the
length that is taken and how extreme censorship goes. Censorship is a good thing
especially for protecting children. In our society we are in a digital world and
children from a very young age are using the internet, because of this children are
being exposed to material that they can access easily that is inappropriate for
their age for example porn, gambling, violence. Children are growing up being
show this from a young age which can be damaging to them growing up mentally.
Censorship in this area is good as it protect children from seeing this content on
the Internet and allows them to go on the Internet and be able to search and use
it in a safe manor. Also censorship protects children from watching a film, which
is not appropriate for their age. Censorship may limit, block the inappropriate
content from films and put a age limit on the film so children are not exposed to
content which is not appropriate for them to watch. In this circumstance
censorship is a good aspect as its protecting children from content, which they
don’t need to see and know about at such a young age.
Another circumstance which censorship is good for is blocking content from the
Internet, which may influence a paedophile or a murderer. Finding content on the
Internet is really easy and you can be exposed to it in a click of a button.
Videos/images of violent and inappropriate behaviour may influence these types
of people even more, which then influences their behaviours on society.
Censorship would block this content out and reduce the people who will be
influenced by this and this may reduce the crimes of what the people commit. In
this scenario I think censorship is a good aspect as it can reduce a lot of problems
and make the country a safer environment, which a lot links to the concept of
projecting children. Inappropriate TV programmes should be censored if they are
broadcasted before Watershed this is so young children do not watch these TV

2. programmes and get influenced easily into thinking that the for example a TV
programme contain very violent scenes a young boy may watch this and think
that that is normal behaviour and its alright to be that violent. Evidently what my
point is coming to that in my opinion the main aspect to Censorship is to protect
children to content that they should not be exposed to at such a young age.
Censorship in some circumstances is not needed. In one circumstance books have
been banned because they have been too inappropriate. For example Naked
Lunch by William S. Burroughs, this book was banned because it contained
obscene language and controversial matters. I do not think this booked should
have banned in this case. It’s an adult book in which it’s aimed at adult. If an adult
wants to read the book and they have no problem with what the book contains
then it should be their decision whether to read it or not. An adult should be able
to make their own decisions on whether they want to read that type of material.
Some people like to read controversial material for example 50 shades of Grey is
a very popular book which has been a best seller in the UK. This book is a very
controversial book and explores sex and S&M. People may see this as having an
explicit nature. So why has Naked Lunch been banned and 50 shades hasn’t? In
this circumstanced I think it is wrong that books are banned. It shouldn’t of been
published in the first place and the publishers should have looked into the
material of what the book had contained. If they ban one book containing this
sort of controversial matters than why don’t they ban all books containing it?
Adults are en charge of themselves and it they want to explore the explicit
content that the books have it should be their choice into what they read.
Another circumstance where I don’t agree that censorship can be used is within
the education. Within this scenario religious schools will not allow the children to
know the story of the big bang and how the earth started scientifically. They will
only teach the bible way. I think concerning the education this wrong because
children should be taught both ways and be lead to make their own decision on
what they believe in. Using censorship to hide theories from children in wrong in
this aspect and it should not be done.
The world we live in now the Internet is used everyday by billions of people. The
Internet can be very dodgy as it contains material that lots people do not want to
come into contact with such as porn, gambling, violence, indecent images and
videos etc… because of this the internet should have censorship to protect people
from the harmful content that it contains. Blocks should be put on porn sites and
other nasty sites that contain content which is indecent. This platform of media is
the most dangerous and therefore should contain censorship to stop the harmful
content reaching people and reaching children who are just browsing the net.
Internet censorship in China is conducted under a wide variety of laws and
administrative regulations. In accordance with these laws, the government of
China has made more than sixty Internet regulations to put the Internet
censorship in action. The Internet control in China has been seen as the most
extensive and advanced then any other countries in the world. The government
don’t just block access to websites but monitor the web use of individuals. In my
opinion I think this is a good idea that the government monitor the Internet in a

3. strict way because in the UK the Internet does get monitored as strictly as China.
It gets monitored as if you put the wrongs