The Pros And Cons Of Censorship

Almost anyone in the world can think of parents they know who shelter their children. In fact you might be victim to this fate. Some parents firmly believe that sheltering their children from certain material makes their children better people. They would rather develop their children’s mentality manually. What parents don’t realize is that they are not benefiting their children. They are prohibiting their children from learning real world concepts that they should know to be prosperous. Censorship is implemented intently on protecting society, however it actually impairs society rather than assists. We’re all aware that sometimes nothing is more powerful than an idea. But censorship hampers new ideas. When the Theory of Evolution was first introduced it was not taught because people believed we should censor the subject. Eventually, "The so-called, Scopes Monkey Trial, of 1925” went to the supreme court, “concerning enforcement of a Tennessee statute that prohibited teaching the theory of evolution in public school classrooms." …show more content…
Censorship acts against our basic human rights. For example during the beginning of WW1 in the United States a man named Charles Schenk, “attempted to distribute thousands of flyers to American servicemen recently drafted to fight in World War I.” but, “Schenck was charged by the U.S. government with violating the recently enacted Espionage Act.” This shows that although Schenk was playing by the rules and simply expressing his opinion, he was censored regardless of his freedom of speech. Luckily for Schenk Society and the courts determined that this was a violation of his freedom of speech. So freedom of speech actually became the first basic right for Americans to actually obtain. It seems ridiculous that we would let something like censorship abridge our rights and yet we still need the government to say that we have those