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Music Censorship Essay

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Have you ever noticed on how graphic, violent, or how vulger language is in a movie or a song? Well unfortunately it is used in many of America’s movies, music, tv shows, etcetera. You have wondered if movies or music should be censorship in a country that has freedom of speech? Or maybe should censorship be based on age? why should things be based on censorship. how should censorship be determined? Studies have shown that majority of Americans have decided that movies and music should not be censorship. They say even though we have the freedom of speech our children and youth should not be watching movies or listening to music that has vuglar language, violent, or graphic stuff in it. However many Americans say that when a person reaches …show more content…

Majority of Americans say that it should be based on people that are over 18 years old. This has upset many people under the age of 18 but they say it is for they’re on good. The people who support the age limit also made the remark that when they were growing up they never did see as much graphic or have heard that much vulger language on a movie or in music. They said they growed up watching shows like Andy Grififth. Things should be censorshiped to help stop atroches behavior. If we stop all the graphic movies vulger language and bad stuff that is going on in America’s tv shows than teens will stop being encouraged to do drugs, smoke, and all the other stuff teens learn about from these movies and tv shows that are bad. How would it stop it? Well it would make it appeal uncool to teens and the less it is uncool the less people that are going to do that. that would really help everyone out. How should censorship be determined? well studies have shown that the people who have made the movies or music or whatever should decide. Servays have also shown that people over 18 years old should also decide aswell. We were curious to find out why their answer was that? One person said because the people who compose the music or make the movie know whats in the movie or in the

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