what do you think censorship transmits to society?
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True, censorship is an attempt to stop the transmission of information to society, but by doing that I think it shows the world that ideas can be soooo powerful that people fear them and want to stop their spread.  That should show people how important thought and the development of ideas is.  It should show people that ideas have the power to change the world.  This should make people want to know and want to think.  Does this happen?  I don’t know, but that is what it does to me and what it should do!
1059396
Move to a country where censorship is permissable.\nIf you get to remove from the PUBLIC library what YOU find objectionable, then I get to remove what offends ME, and so does the next guy, before long, you have an empty library.
923689
=Absolutely.  Whatever happened to censorship on TV?
795030
What makes you think it's not being censored now? Somethings are deleted now. However, given time more things will be deleted and who knows how much or how far this will go.
148108
Well, that can be a tricky question. Most censorship and obscenity regulation is set based on what the majority of people find offensive. Sometimes it is not even the material to be censored that is offensive, but studies showing that it leads to something offensive, a study linking obscenity to mistreatment of women as an example. \n\nOfficials either elected or appointed by, elected officials set these guidelines. Who elects these people? The majority of voters elect them. \n\nSo, we have people electing officials and those officials either directly setting censorship guidelines, or appointing other people to set those guidelines. \n\nSo while censorship is set directly be a small number of people, the majority sets those people in place. It's like censorship via proxy. So it is based both on our values and those of others. Democracy is about compromise, keeping things neither to liberal or too conservative.\n\nAs for whether or not censorship is based on your morals, you would have to ask yourself on each issue, are you in the majority, or the minority?
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1.1 About Internet censorship\n\nIn the last 10 years the Internet grew very, very fast. It is a bunch of thousands of little networks put together. Billion computers are connected and it is basically not controlled or even owned by a government or company. There are no laws, everybody can put his webpages online which can be accessed by everybody on the world who is sitting in front of a computer with Internet access. I believe that this can and will change the world as we know it today.\nBut there are several governments who think that this unlimited access to information is dangerous for their citizens. These are for example Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Cuba, Jordan, Tunisia, Burma, Singapore, Uzbekistan, Yemen, Kuwait, Vietnam, Syria, Iran, United Arab Emirates and parts of Africa. and even in countries like Australia, Switzerland and in some parts of Germany they censor websites. This ranks from a very easy to circumvent DNS blocking of only 2 Nazi sites in parts of Germany to a government office with 30.000 employees only working in blocking thousands of websites, services and ports in China.\nThough the blocking methods are different there are also different ways to bypass them. I will try to show you how to access the website of Amnesty International, BBC, Google and other blocked sites in your country. I made this website in very basic HTML, so that you can even view it with a very old computer. Please share this information, link the site, copy it, mirror it, print it (I didn't "hide" any links, so that no link is lost when you print it) and teach your friends and relatives!\n\nMore info: http://www.encyclopedia-online.info/Censorship_in_cyberspace\n\n1.2 My reasons for writing this\n\nWell, I'm living in Germany, which is not very famous for it's censoring. But the local government from one of the 16 German states (NRW) tries to introduce censorship by blocking 2 US Nazi sites. Sure, I really don't like those guys but in my opinion no government or even a system administrator got the right to choose which information a individual have access to. What websites are next? Who chooses which websites will be blocked? Additionally, my school blocks some websites and so I became interesting in this topic.\n\n1.3 How to get this file\n\nAs you are reading this you actually found this file somewhere. The most updated version you can get here:\n\nEuropean mirror: http://www.zensur.freerk.com/ - (Lambdanet - Erfurt, Germany)\nAmerican mirror: http://nocensor.citizenlab.org/ - (University of Toronto - Toronto, Canada)\nAsian/Pacific mirror: http://blocks.orcon.net.nz/ - (Orcon ISP - Auckland, New Zealand)\n\nSSL mirror: https://secure.sslpowered.com/bpass/ (Netfirms, Toronto, Canada) and https://ssl-account.com/zensur.freerk.com/\nDynamic IP mirror: http://maybe-yours.dyndns.org/ (please email me!)\n\neMail autoresponder: index.htm@zensur.freerk.com (just send an empty email, you will instantly get this text as plain HTML in return)\n\nGoogle Cache: http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:www.zensur.freerk.com/ - (maybe some days old)\n\n1.4 License\n\nPermission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this document, to deal with this document without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, translate, merge, publish, distribute, and/or sell copies of the document, and to permit persons to whom the document is furnished to do so, provided that the author (Freerk) and at least two mirror server of the original text (see: 1.3 How to get this file) appear in all copies of the document.\n\nBasicaly this means that you can do anything with this text as long as you mention my name and a way to obtain this original file. First I wanted to publish this paper under the GNU Free Documentation License (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/fdl.html) but I think the licence is to restrictive and complicated (see also: Why You Shouldn't Use the GNU FDL - http://home.t
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not got sources to determine this, id say it's - the place the text has in society. the effect is has on society,
718167
CENSORSHIP IS A BITCH. thanks yahoo for "allowing" freedom of speech!
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The first censorship is that the guy doesnt say hey nigger play the piano. He tells him sam. In the old days whites would call blacks niggers.\nThey censored that so it would not look so bad if they called him nigger.
132015
Here are some of the books I was assigned in high school that were considered perfectly reasonable for teenagers to be exposed to: Julius Caesar (full of murderous plotting and actual murder and several suicides), White Fang (people trained dogs to viciously attack each other so they could gamble on it), Crime and Punishment (murder),  Romeo and Juliet (murder, drugs and suicide), MacBeth (murder), Hamlet (murder by poisoning, numerous deaths).\n\nSo what I'm saying is I don't believe in outright censorship in schools.  There are some things that are clearly not acceptable for children to be exposed to.  I wonder how many of these morally righteous people have children, I wonder how many who have children let their children play hours of video games (not just violent) or have the TV or Internet as babysitters.\n\nThere are far worse things for children to be exposed to in life.  The best way to stem the violence is for parents to talk to their children and spend more time with them.  Do not be pleasers, be parents.
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Censor?  I didn't realize that any participants on YA had the capability or power to censor.  Turn in, report, inform on, promulgate, I'm sure there is lots of that being done.  But not by me. I just dropped in to see what all the fuss was about.
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They obviously need to have a high degree of oversight, but to leave it totally to the community can do a great disservice to its students.  All you need is enough short-sighted individuals determined to "fix" schools and the next thing you know they're burning books and teaching religion.  Censorship never taught anyone anything, expcept that the suppression of ideas is dangerous.\n\nMaintaining high academic standards and an unbiased curriculum is everyone's responsibility.
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Absolutely not. It's necessary to protect the right to free unbiased information. This applies for free speech as well. There's no such thing as the right to censor something to protect something else. About movies, they should come all in UNRATED version, with option to censor through the DVD player those parts children shouldn't see.\nSomething else: those who claim that the so-called "hate speech" should be banned don't really believe in free speech, or at least don't understand the concept.
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Your other respondents have already given you the basic answer.  Where your expression creates an imminent danger to other citizens, then that expression is not allowed.  Some words are considered too inflammatory for public expression, or "fighting words".  You cannot express yourself to the point of provoking others to violence or panic where public safety is jeopardized.  That is common sense and our laws were written with a common sense public in mind.  In other words, most of us know what is right and what is wrong.  We know better than to incite a riot with lying words in a polarized crowd for instance.  Because some people are too dense to use common sense, we have had to verbalize and memorialize some of those restrictions.  Call it censorship if you wish but it is really stating certain restrictions on the freedom of expression that most of us already clearly understand.
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good question.  maybe its some wierd form of censorship?
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This is a real hot potato - your right to free speech is crucial\nBut there is also a responsibility to ensure others aren't offended and minors aren't corrupted\n\nSo maybe the answer is to have a safe area and an open area - in the open area anything goes but access is restricted to over 16's and people who are easily offended won't look there either??
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On one hand, I agree there is too much censorship in the world. What happened after Janet Jackson's "wardrobe malfunction" was ridiculous. We cannot pretend that people do not have private parts, or do not have sex. \n\nOn the other hand, I think that the entertainment industry goes way too far with graphic violence. I think that it does promote such behaviour, and that the industry does it only to boost profits. There is no thought about being socially responsible. Censorship there is necessary, I think. \n\nBTW, I think it's wrong to cuss, not because of the effect on the younger generation, but because it's just more pleasant when people do not curse. (I cuss all the time, of course).