Censorship

[nemafakei]

"All censorship is evil and should be banned any one who suports bluring out art and destoying it is not a very good person...

Censorship=evil

evil=bad

bad=not good

not good =Ceonsorship "

Other than the pointlessness of the last four lines, have you any reasoning?

Why should disgusting things like pornography and pantomime be allowed to corrupt the minds of children? What defence can there be for the infiltration of degenerate media into the hands of the impressionable, and the barraging of those who do not wish to see such spectacles?

"It's the freedom of the media. Media shouldn't be restricted to all kinds of censorship. Censorship is evil, because you can not see what is being censored, and it is the start of corruption.

People have the right to let themselves been informed about everything."

The media is granted freedoms, but some of it abuses those freedoms, and this cannot be allowed. Freedom is granted on the understanding that the freedom will not be used for destructive purposes, and all freedoms are restricted to a certain degree for the purposes of protection.

What is it that any of the degenerate media that deserves censoring, such as pornography and pantomime has? What information does it contain?

Libraries and textbooks exist to cover all the possible information you might wish to garner from either, do they not?

[Acriku]

We have freedom of speech in America, and yet we aren't allowed to yell 'Fire!' in a closed theatre. So you see, there are restrictions to our freedoms.

[Dude_Doc]

We have freedom of speech in America, and yet we aren't allowed to yell 'Fire!' in a closed theatre. So you see, there are restrictions to our freedoms.

That is another kind of thing. It upsets the people, if you for example yell "fire", or stand in the middle of New York yelling "sieg heil". Those are pretty natural.

The media, on the other hand, is a different matter. To show pictures is to show people (dead bodies etc) how terrible it was. That such thing is not to happen again. People don't understand, and don't really care when they read "100 people slaughtered in xyz". But they do when you show them the terror.

And if dead bodies is horrible, then why show attacks like 9/11? Wouldn't that too give rise to "unconfortableness"?

Do also mind the "children" don't mind, at least when they're very young. They don't understand violence or hate when they are young.

[Acriku]

You can't, because it's against the law. Just like showing pornography on a news channel. I wasn't referring to those pictures.

[nemafakei]

"It upsets the people, if you for example yell "fire", or stand in the middle of New York yelling "sieg heil". Those are pretty natural."

And dead bodies won't upset people?

And even if the children aren't immediately upset, it's also a case of whether or not we should allow the impressionable young to consider such things as reasonably normal... a child who is exposed to a lot of violence is more likely to imitate it. Likewise pantomime and pornography.

[Acriku]

Yelling 'fire!' in a threater is not upsetting, it's against the law. It creates chaos, and disturbs the order. Showing graphic pictures on the news is not against the law, but they are required to put a warning before showing them (atleast in America, I don't know about England).

[nemafakei]

It is both, and dangerous, too.

[Anakin]

dont censor it

kids should know what the world is like too

[Dude_Doc]

They descibe in detail how a pedophile raped a child, at least here. That should be illegal, because it does not provide any necessary information we need. Yes, to know who, or where etc, but not how. Well, of course, not all newspapers do that, but some.

But, if showing bodies should not be shown, then terrorist-attacks shouldn't either. At least not in our time, where you hear about an attack somewhere in the world every week. Why? Because children will get that into their head too.

[Anakin]

ok but if children dont know they can get raped

they wont be careful

and they will get raped!

seE? its a good thing to show it, its not really graphic right now. they dont have porn movies on the news and say "this is what we think may have happened..."

whats wrong with bodys? its the truth we should get to see it

[nemafakei]

All sorts of things are 'the truth', insofar as that statement can be used. But a detailed account of metabolic of leeks, which may be very true, is not going to be discussed in almost any medium.

Children are told to be careful, and they are given other warnings - they do not need to be introduced to the workings of perverted minds, nor any other unsuitabe material, lest they imitate.