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Censorship

amount of offensive material we are exposed to in films nowadays is surely excessive. Most people accept that scenes of sex and violence are sometimes necessary to tell a story, but all too often these scenes are gratuitous, they are unnecessary in the film to appeal to the baser human instincts.is the suppression of speech or other public communication which may be considered objectionable, harmful, sensitive, or inconvenient as determined by a government, media outlet, or other controlling body. It is the supervision and control body of the information and ideas that are circulated among the people within a society.can be done by governments and private organizations or by individuals who engage in self-censorship (Self-censorship is often practiced by film producers, film directors, publishers, news anchors, journalists, musicians, and other kinds of authors). It occurs for a variety of reasons including national security, to control obscenity, child pornography, and hate speech, to protect children, to promote or restrict political or religious views, to prevent slander and libel, and to protect intellectual property. It may or may not be legal. Many countries provide strong protections against censorship by law, but none of these protections are absolute and it is frequently necessary to balance conflicting rights in order to determine what can and cannot be censored.is necessary, especially to protect children from the corrupting influence of such scenes, often masquerading as art, in our cinemas.other hand, there are those who say that something which is banned becomes desirable, so censorship is counter-productive and that censorship infringes on our freedom of choice. However, freedom is not merely freedom to do what we want but freedom from attempts to destroy society’s moral. Censorship provides the safeguards by which society protects itself.democratic and non-democratic countries use censorship. With the explosion of communication technology, it has become all-pervasive. There is a dispute as to whether censorship is good or bad. Pros of Censorship

· Censorship of pornographic material prevents the corrupting of the children.

· Scenes of people consuming alcohol or smoking influence people to copy them. Hence censoring such scenes serves a useful purpose.

· People may copy dangerous stunts shown on TV or movies. Censorship proves necessary here.

· It can be used to prevent politically motivated propaganda.

· It protects the privacy of people.

· Plagiarism is prevented.

· Abusive scenes in movies may offend some people. Censorship prevents that.

· It protects indigenous cultures from the bad influence of foreign cultures.

· It prevents the public display of disrespect to any particular individual or community.

· It promotes political correctness.

· Children are prevented from learning things that could harm them and others.

· It shields the morals of society.

· It restrains vulgarity and obscenity.

· The surfeit of violence in movies and TV is restricted by it.of Censorship

· If sex-related topics are completely censored it becomes difficult to teach children and teenagers about the dangers of HIV/AIDS.

· Freedom of speech is compromised.

· It prevents the free flow of ideas.

· It may intrude on the privacy of a person.

· Withholding of information only leads to ignorance in the society.

· Censoring of information may lead to a wrong image perceived by the public.

· It is generally associated with dictatorship.

· Censorship has been misused in the past.

· It is a force against globalization.

· It works against creativity.

· If you hide something from people they will become extra curious about it.

· It has no place in a truly democratic society.

· It gives rise to and hides human rights abuses.

· It is used to control people.

· There can be different standards of morals among different societies quite different from the imposed ones by the censorship.

· Governments should not control people. It should be the other way round.

· Individuals have different tastes.

· People have a right to know.properly, censorship serves as a valuable tool. However, it can also be easily misused. Governments and other regulatory institutions must learn to use it judiciously. Children and TVhave been more than 2,300 studies and reports on the effects of television on American society. Most of them show that these effects are mainly negative. Researchers have been especially concerned about children. In the past decade, researchers have had children participate in numerous studies. They had children watch television intensively for three weeks. The results showed a drop in the children's creativity. The researchers concluded that television makes the children lose some of their creativity.can't get children to pay attention for any length of time because today's children want everything to be as fast and entertaining as TV. Dr Benjamin Spock, an expert in child raising, once complained that he couldn't get his grandchildren to leave the TV set when he wanted to take them to the zoo. Some of today's children are so addicted to TV that nothing else interests them. Parents have to make them turn off the TV and go out to play or read a book. They can't get them to do these traditional childhood activities without having an argument over the TV.

Although most of these studies have shown the negative effects of television, some sociologists argue that television has become a part of our lives. They do not think that parents should make their children limit the amount of TV that they watch to one or two hours a day. They believe that parents should let their children decide for themselves

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