"Censorship" Why it is bad for society.
Date Submitted: 08/17/2001 12:07:09
Category: / Social Sciences / Communication Studies
Length: 3 pages (795 words)
Category: / Social Sciences / Communication Studies
Length: 3 pages (795 words)
The first amendment to the Constitution contends, "Congress shall make no law [...] abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press [...]" Censorship by definition is the suppression of published or broadcast material to the public. People have fought and died for the right to hear, read, and see anything and everything that is available. Our right, however, goes beyond that, we have the full right to publish and broadcast material, even though it is controversial. …
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…it prevent it prevents people to think for themselves and communicate those thoughts, and it will lead to disarray. Society's principles change and it reaches a new level of its development. This won' t be possible if censorship exists. It will reject the new as shocking and bad. Thus, society will stay at one and the same level of its development or will develop only in the direction that a few people with power choose.
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