Political Censorship In The United States

When a person has no choice but to trust what they hear, news becomes a dangerous topic, or more accurately transforms from sure fact to discrete fabrications. Once people become complacent, there is no one to question whether the information people are being fed is truthful at all. It remains true to this day that “Because media is such a large part of people’s lives today...if...information is not being given in full or truthfully, then the society is left uneducated” (“Censorship Effects on Society” 1). In countries where only one source of information is available to the public, it is almost routine that the information is biased and filled with political propaganda. In reducing the amount of sources, the people have no other opinions presented to them than the ones that the government wants them to have. The perpetuation of false histories is atrocious. One country may believe one historical truth while another country only ever knew the exact opposite. With the censorship of one perspective of …show more content…
People are robbed of their free will, their free speech, and their right to assembly out of fear that they may begin to defy authoritarian powers. Censorship strives to keep people uninformed and uneducated in hopes that people will fall for political propaganda more easily and keeps the judgmental mind at bay. These results only seem to produce the opposite in some cases, as secret newspapers illegally make their ways into citizen hands and curiosity of the outside world increases. Finally, despite best intentions, there are circumstances when governments should step down and let writers’ content be content in hopes of generating a more aware public in terms of current issues. In conclusion, extreme government censorship is psychologically harmful to the public and should be extinguished as soon as possible, an act that is possible only if the public take matters into their own