Obscenity law

Have you ever wondered why some authors reword written materials that have offensive words in them or why there's specific written materials that can be found online but not at your local library? That’s because of banning and censoring. Banning is the act of excluding information from one place that can be accessible from another location, while censoring suppresses words or graphic images from viewers. There are times that some written materials should be banned but written materials should…

Literature is a very important part of the human life. Many books have been banned and or censored because of inappropriate material or the usage of words that some people find offensive. One example of a book that has been censored and banned is the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain. Written materials should not be censored or banned because it takes away the meaning and possible education of the reader. There has been a total of 11,300 books that have been challenged to be banned…

The burning of books by Jewish authors in Nazi Germany, the rejection of books on evolution and science by religious conservatives, and the removal of Green Eggs and Ham from the country of China are well known examples of book banning. Controversy over censorship has existed for as long as authors have written books. As early as 360 B.C., Plato wrote of censoring the writings of others. Several religious and political groups, as well as parent groups, assert that books they deem offensive…

Many people believe expression in the arts should be restrained. Debatewise claims “Expression in the arts should be restrained because many forms of art seek to push the boundaries of what is acceptable” (“Censorship of the Arts” par. 4). Censorship allows art to create social peace and order. An individual’s rights end when it implies harm to the safety and rights of others. Censorship of the arts is necessary to protect children and also adults from images and other artistic content that lack…

Do you believe in censorship? Censorship can be considered inappropriate, harmful and offensive. In my opinion, I believe that censorship is a good thing depending on its extremity. Nevertheless, censorship exists today, both in reality and fictitiously. In Ray Bradbury’s novel, Fahrenheit 451, censorship is a major theme throughout the story. Ray Bradbury’s novel, Fahrenheit 451, conveys how censorship can have a dramatic and disastrous effect. First, the government bans literature as…

The fact that this book was banned due to a sexually explicit passages and some blasphemous language seems ludicrous. First off the fact that these are only passages lends to the fact that the book probably had a much different theme that could be very educational to students posing many important life questions and introducing thought provoking themes. The book was not strictly about those passages, they were rather just a small part to build character. I think that this is a very important…

If you were a parent are there any children’s books you would ban your kids from reading? There are hundreds of children’s books that are banned for small things. Most are banned for containing some form of LGBT content. The word “Banned” can mean many things but i’m focusing on how books aren’t shown to kids in certain libraries and/or they’re very disputed over. I feel it’s wrong to ban children from reading any form of children’s book. If it wasn’t okay for children to read it wouldn’t be…

Censorship is the control of the information that cannot be circulated among the world, especially words, images, and ideas which are offensive. It has a real long history which can be traced to the office of censor in 433 BC in Rome, the ancient Greeks were eagle to build an ideal governance including shaping the characters of the civilians by the original of the term (Newth 2010). Censorship happens whenever certain persons such as individuals, groups or government officials feel unacceptable…

In February 15th, 2003, the episode of a long-running ABC TV show “NYPD Blue,” “Nude Awakening” has premiered, and became controversial, due to a scene involving nudity. Over the last few years, the terms “indecency” and “obscenity” has been defined and redefined, in order to create proper regulations on programs’ usage of mature content on television. This rule has become more prominent in primetime programs, but not in cable programs since they depend on subscriptions. Ever since cable was…

Censorship the suppression or prohibition of any parts of books, films, news, etc. That are considered obscene, politically unacceptable. In Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury used censorship to show how books were not allowed. Montag one of the character was a firefighter who was one to go to people's house and bun the books if they found out they had nooks at their house he soon became unhappy and changed he started sneaking and reading books and was a fool because his wife left him and he got his…