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While protecting children is an important thing society has to take on, some believe that internet censorship for children can lead to oppressing the people of a nation. Since internet is something that is hard to regulate it becomes a bit of chore when deciding how to protect children. Government can use these regulations as a mask and in reality use them to oppress. Especially totalitarian governments like China, Russia, and Iran. Lawrence Strickling, the US Department of Commerce Assistant…

Government Regulation on Threatening Speech With the rise of tension between the United States and the Middle East, every word spoken or drawing depicted is under pressure of causing harm. Is there a line drawn between freedom of speech and hate speech, for the sake of the safety and freedoms of our country? Can the government regulate communication that constitutes a threat to the United States national security, and if so, how? The United States government was put into place to serve the…

What is freedom? It’s defined as the power or right to act, speak, or think as one wants without hindrance or restraint. Without hindrance and restraint is the key part to this. A person is given the right to freedom in the Constitution. However, their right to freedom gets violated when schools try to force uniforms on a student. There has been many attempts to stretch dress code policies, which aren’t as restrictive as uniforms but still hinder rights. For example, 13 year old Alan Newsom had…

Around the world, most countries including China, The United States of America, and the Middle East have online Internet websites censored by types of countless reasons. There is the most obvious question: why do people censor online websites and what is censorship? "Censorship is the process of either removing or editing any type of fictional or nonfictional graphic imagery to anybody, not at a certain of age. This would include television shows (ex. South Park), movies(ex. Pulp Fiction), and…

careful to point out that free speak was a choice (Newth). Today, the acquisition of this choice has never been more precious. Using this viewpoint, the reader not only assumes that censorship restrains their “vision” and “voice” of natural rights of speech and expression, but also understands attempts to limit this threat to freedom…

Every Work of Art Serves a Purpose To Kill a Mockingbird, The Great Gatsby, and Animal Farm are well-known literary classics that share a commonality. They have all been banned at some time during their existence. Books are the most commonly banned form of art, but films, music, and video games are subject to this fate as well. One of the first groups of people to ban books for political reasons were the Romans, even though they were considered to be somewhat liberal. In Germany during the 20th…

Art and Book Censorship A person might look at a list of banned books from schools and wonder why. Books and art are challenged or censored because they are seen as offensive or unfit for certain age groups (Gould). Many people want to censor or ban certain books or pieces of art, but censorship isn’t the right thing to please everyone. Censorship of art and books should not be enforced because it intrudes on the rights of a person. “Censorship is when a person or group successfully imposes…

tools to control the minds of its citizens and, its weapon of choice censorship. This dystopian society utilizes censorship to accomplish a number of goals that are comparable to the goals and methods of censorship in modern societies. Freedom of speech, press, and internet access are common liberties that are restricted by governments; likewise, the primary intentions of censorship in Fahrenheit 451 are similar. Analyzing the Fahrenheit 451 censorship and comparing its aspects to those in…

You, Me, Stupid, and Dead” defends the right to freedom of speech…

because the purpose of the song was to raise awareness about the possibility of what had taken place that fateful day. Shutting down the voice of those singers who just wanted to draw attention to a very real problem violated their right to freedom of speech and expression, not just of their views and opinions but about a political topic that could eventually lead to progression in the United…