Can you give me a list of questions for censorship?

Answer 1

It would be easier if you would be more specific about the kind of censorship, but here goes:

- Should the Child Protection Act extend to under-18s who commit a lewd act without adult provocation?

- Should there be an evening watershed on all forms of television, including cable?

- Should film ratings systems be revised to be more stringent, i.e. no sexual innuendo or bad language in films rated PG?

- Should the government, rather than retailers, decide what CDs should carry warning stickers?

- Should swearing in public schools be punishable by suspension?

- Should the publication of government classified information provided by a leaked source result in prosecution not only of the source, but also the publication?

Answer 2

Is it fair to censor someone's point of view, merely because its unpopular, when that point of view's content is not malicious, defamatory, or seditious? An example would be to criticize the government's policy towards a certain thing.

Is it fair to censor a newspaper article that is true and accurate, but reports news that certain people in power would rather not be made public?

Is it fair to censor a movie because its content is legitimate, artistic and has redeeming value, but contains graphic nudity? For instance the movies "Caligula", "Last Tango in Paris" or "Deep Throat"?

Is it fair to censor what a person can watch in the privacy of their own home?

Is it fair for a government agency, say the FTC, to sensor a pamphlet that a chiropractor puts out to other chiropractors, proposing new alternative non-invasive treatments that may have health benefits, by requiring a government-monitor to approve every letter, note, email, correspondence, book or brochure that the chiropractor writes; and then seize all of his assets and force him into unending litigation?

Is it fair for censors to order movie makers to abstain from using red shirts or dresses or other clothing, because that might appear to support communism?

I wonder about these things. But throughout our modern history, it appears these things have happened. I would say censorship has been alive and well and institutionalized in our government.

We have a Constitutional system that ought to weed this out. Sometimes it does, but often too late and at a high price.

So sad that a Democracy fashioned on a Republican form of government should limit liberty in this way. How hypocritcal isn't it?