Arguments Against Nazi Censorship

Censorship is the suppression of public communication that has been deemed objectionable, harmful, sensitive or inconvenient as determined by the government, media outlet or controlling body. Censorship has been a major topic of controversy since before Christ. The most famous case is reasonably that of Socrates, he was sentenced to drink poison for his corruption of the youth and his acknowledgment of unorthodox divinities (Newth,2010).Then, about 200 years later Emperor Qin Shi Huang of China ordered the destruction of many history and philosophy books to make it seem that the world started with his rein (Preceden,n.d).Third, the burning of Mayan book’s, Fray Diego de Landa, a Spaniard acting bishop of the Yucatan, burned many of the Maya’s sacred books in 1562 because they conflicted with the Christian ideology he was trying to teach them …show more content…
Viewpoints in any way threatening to Nazi beliefs or to the regime were censored or eliminated from all media (United States Holocaust Memorial Mueseum,n.d).The discussion of what governmental agencies can control/punish has appeared multiple times in the supreme court in cases like Texas v. Johnson where Johnson burnt an American flag or Roth v. United States where a California obscenity law was challenged by Alberts and in Reno v. ACLU where Attorney General Janet Reno challenged the constitutionality of its provisions, in Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District a group of students were banned for wearing a black armband and in another school in Hazelwood School District v. Kuhlmeier the principal removed papers from the article regarding sensitive topics. These cases and many more have the guideline on what extent censorship can be used