The Problems Of Censorship And Children

Censorship is defined as “the suppression or prohibition of any parts of books, films, news, etc. that are considered obscene, politically unacceptable, or a threat to security” (www.dictionary.com). Censorship is used to protect people, usually children under the age of seventeen from unsuitable material in any form of media. One of the main problem with this is that altering the information available limits the amount of truth their is which heavily affects research if you can find any information, the wording may be very vague and/or misleading. This causes problems when trying to put together timelines or any collection of data for it may be incomplete with the existing filters applied. Another problem with censorship is the impulse to

Examples of alterations from from screenplays or films would ask for substitutions. “Page 14: Omit the perversions of rubber. Substitute the kreurpels and blinges of the rubber. Omit the chamber pot under the bed.” (Cooke). With censorship in mind, even people writing the content of blogs and any article online, whether it be news related or just a simple paper, may be intentionally vague for the fear that it may be censored. Some authors would rather have their original content viewable rather than a version edited by a random person across the world. Also, once content is censored by the government, or whoever is controlling the filter, it is very hard to get an appeal even if the censorship was unjust. Censorship can also vary depending on the person making the filter. It can even depend on something so small as the personal contacts and the conversations they have with people. Google threatened to pull its business out of China if they didn’t remove the countrywide filters that are placed when the “.cn” suffix is

When searching sensitive content, the results can heavily differ, depending on how atrocious the search. If a person was to search something horrific like the rape of nanking, the images alone would appear as two relatively different topics during the searching process. The only similarity between the two searches were that both contained pictures of old warfighters, meanwhile the unfiltered internet had many horrific pictures in the midst. To further the research, a reliable source written by Iris Chang, was compared against what an average person could find through searches on the filtered internet. The article sourced by a U.S. History teacher at Lebanon High School discussed how “Few know that the soldiers impaled babies on bayonets and tossed them still alive into pots of boiling water,” (Nagatomi). “They gang raped women from the ages twelve to eighty and then killed them when they could no longer satisfy their secxual requirements. I have beheaded people, starved them to death, burned them, buried them alive, over two hundred in all”(Chang). These are the gorey details people are censored from, with horrific and awful accounts and images of nightmarish events unfolding. Censorship, in total, may get a bad reputation because America is supposed to be “the land of the free,” but the only real reason it exists is to protect