Censorship
Throughout our lives, censorship surrounds us either for the good, or bad. Censorship is the suppressing of certain information from a group of people in things such as books and videos. It exists in the parts of our lives such as sports, athletics, history, social media, music, movies, and entertainment. Throughout this essay, we are going to explore deeper into events of censorship in the history of our world.
In May 1989, hundreds of thousands of Chinese citizens gathered into central Beijing to protest in hopes that communist party leaders would resign and a greater democracy would develop. Protests were held for three weeks, with marches and chants held every day. On June 4, 1989, chinese troops were ordered to clear the square …show more content…
Throughout the history of the NFL, the deliberate hitting and beating to the head has caused countless of concussions and brain trauma. However, the NFL hasn't always been truthful when discussing and reporting these injuries to the public. From a study completed by the NY Times, “[The] NFL omitted more than 100 diagnosed concussions from its study on the issue nearly 20 years ago, thus deflating the concussion rate and making the sport appear safer than it actually was.” This shows how the NFL organization censored the public from the real truth behind concussions and NFL players. This act of hiding information did not cause a greater good but caused harm to the players. Consequently, nothing was done because the public and even the players were not well informed of the facts. Our group understood the reason for the NFL to censor the information, although, we thought it was irresponsible and a bad decision to let this continue unnoticed. Overall, we feel it was a careless decision to withhold this information from the public and the players safety should be put above obtaining better ratings and …show more content…
government was tracking and listening in to our phone calls and electronic messages. This is an invasion of our freedom and our right to be individuals. If we have the government in effect then we should be able to trust it, Snowden brought awareness to the actions of the government so I think it was for the greater good. The first amendment right of media was infringed upon because the government was not respecting our privacy. When our group read about this event, we were confused as to which side we should believe because there were so many different opinions about the subject. He was known as both a traitor and national hero by the country. In the end, our group believes he is a national hero for exposing the government’s unethical
Throughout our lives, censorship surrounds us either for the good, or bad. Censorship is the suppressing of certain information from a group of people in things such as books and videos. It exists in the parts of our lives such as sports, athletics, history, social media, music, movies, and entertainment. Throughout this essay, we are going to explore deeper into events of censorship in the history of our world.
In May 1989, hundreds of thousands of Chinese citizens gathered into central Beijing to protest in hopes that communist party leaders would resign and a greater democracy would develop. Protests were held for three weeks, with marches and chants held every day. On June 4, 1989, chinese troops were ordered to clear the square …show more content…
Throughout the history of the NFL, the deliberate hitting and beating to the head has caused countless of concussions and brain trauma. However, the NFL hasn't always been truthful when discussing and reporting these injuries to the public. From a study completed by the NY Times, “[The] NFL omitted more than 100 diagnosed concussions from its study on the issue nearly 20 years ago, thus deflating the concussion rate and making the sport appear safer than it actually was.” This shows how the NFL organization censored the public from the real truth behind concussions and NFL players. This act of hiding information did not cause a greater good but caused harm to the players. Consequently, nothing was done because the public and even the players were not well informed of the facts. Our group understood the reason for the NFL to censor the information, although, we thought it was irresponsible and a bad decision to let this continue unnoticed. Overall, we feel it was a careless decision to withhold this information from the public and the players safety should be put above obtaining better ratings and …show more content…
government was tracking and listening in to our phone calls and electronic messages. This is an invasion of our freedom and our right to be individuals. If we have the government in effect then we should be able to trust it, Snowden brought awareness to the actions of the government so I think it was for the greater good. The first amendment right of media was infringed upon because the government was not respecting our privacy. When our group read about this event, we were confused as to which side we should believe because there were so many different opinions about the subject. He was known as both a traitor and national hero by the country. In the end, our group believes he is a national hero for exposing the government’s unethical