Obscenity

presently, people argue that censorship threatens our first amendment, the freedom to speak and publicize freely. The big guys use it to hide secrets and operate more privately behind the people, the soul of a democracy. Used as tool to extract obscenity and other dangers, political censorship unjustly manipulates society’s views and values, abuses American’s peoples constitutional rights, and threatens our democratic way of life. In general, censorship in the United States, involving the…

Alex Galbreath Professor Breslin MCO 300A November 21, 2016 Internet Censorship The Constitution’s First Amendment protects five fundamental freedoms under its application: Freedom of religion, freedom of speech, freedom to peacefully assemble, freedom of the press, and freedom to petition the government. With this being known, freedom of speech is arguably the most commonly practiced openly among the aforementioned five. Speech is a broad term, though. In our modern era, speech is equivalent…

The First Amendment allows for freedom of speech, assembly, press, religion and petition. In today’s society relating to pop culture, artists have the protection to express themselves in any way they choose because of the amendment. Music censorship is a regulatory measure to ensure that music adheres to applicable legislation and statutory regulation. Music censorship is a big controversy in the U.S. Artists’ beliefs’, expressions and rights are taken away, which goes against the protection of…

In the film, The People vs. Larry Flynt the movie explores the life of Larry Flynt and the beginning of modern pornography. It also takes on a few other issues such as desecration of the flag and the protection against awarding damages to public figures of emotion distress. At this time in history there were laws against what could be shown in different types of media, in this case a magazine. This film goes to make the point whether pornography should be a type of media protected by the first…

Did you know that “71% of teens hide online behavior from their parents”? (Porn Stats) This is the result of censorship of pornographic material. Pornographic material should not be censored because it is a major business like any other, it conflicts with one’s Constitutional rights, and because it is a hindrance to the secular development of children. Some people may argue that “censorship shelters children from ideas that may damage their moral development.” (Censorship 15) To that, others…

gain access to the youth of America.” (Cannon, 1996). So in his quest to protect America’s youth he proposed the Communications Decency Act of 1996 (CDA). Within this Act, there existed two provisions - the anti-indecency provision and the anti-obscenity provision. The provisions stated that it…

There are conflicting views on the degree of damage that access to Internet can do to our society. A large number of people claim that as more and more people become familiar with Internet, the potential of its damage grows to an uncontrollable rate. Whereas some people claim that any regulation to limit the access of Internet is an act of violation against their first amendment rights. Because in some cases there are no restriction to what can be put one the internet, what can be viewed on the…

Chris Hubbard Human Relations CP Mr. Kelly 5 January 2015 Buzzkill What if, one day the media and entertainment that people indulge in was suddenly taken over by the government and they replace it with what they deem as appropriate? Ever since the 20th century TV, internet and music have been filtered by the FCC to block out inappropriate words, pictures and actions. Censorship usually tends to cause problems when it tries to silence voices, and images. In the United States some of our…

Censorship is used in many places, including children’s book, television shows, and also music. It is not necessary because it infringes upon the First Amendment, which is the right to freedom of speech. Censorship is the suppression of information that may be considered inappropriate or vulgar to some people. Censorship is achieved through looking at television, books, films, play and other forms of media and entertainment to control ideas that were projected to be unseemly. To understand…

The Act of Book Banning Should be Banned Have you ever wondered why books suddenly disappear from library shelves? The concept of libraries and school’s banning books is being openly opposed by Banned Books Week, a corporation that encourages the banning of books to be banned. Words have power and meaning and shouldn’t be tossed away or removed from shelves despite how mature or explicit they can be. According to Banned Books Week, “Banned Books Week was launched in 1982 in response to a sudden…