Censorship in the most unlikely of places, where the freedom of expression is guaranteed in our inalienable and Consultation rights. Censorship is still able to shine through the cracks of democracy. The topic of censorship can be seen as a necessary precaution from the immoralities of life while others see the government as exceedingly dominating in its attempt to establish judgement upon what is right or acceptable for society. While censorship is often seen as an action relative for the greater good, throughout history, it has actually been one of the fundamental tools by which governments have maintained their control.
While many would think new rising technology would further eliminate the constraints of censorship Philip …show more content…
He analyzes the establishment of an undemocratic process within government and the correlation with a capitalistic society. Keane identifies the risk of the entirety and basis of a democratic nation threatened by the lack of the unrestricted flow of information within a censored society. Techniques used by government to hinder the exchange of information and ideas comes in phrases used as scare tactics: “emergency situations” or “national security” (Kaufman) The management of information is seen in “Google's] alarming rise in government censorship requests” (Sutter). These censorship request sent to Google are concerning an “allegedly defam law enforcement official in a personal capacity” or another claim asked Youtube, owned by Google, to remove videos of law enforcement who were “allegedly harassed”. It is becoming increasingly alarming of the government's control of censorship in the United States. The censorship certain areas allows the people to be compliant to the ideas fed to them by media because to find any factual information contradicting what a mass group of people believe is changglening. By omission of certain news, the government is lying to the public. the as well as the privacy issue where google complies to ninety three percent of request for user data from government agencies …show more content…
Any prospect of news organizations opposing marketplace pressure will be diminished by the overly concentrated by massive media corporations. The duty of news have become muddled in terms of their intent to report vital information and media corporations being advertisment driven profiters. These perplex and rules and uncertainty leads to censorship due to the interests of corporate media