How has censorship become a good thing? Doesn't that make propaganda equally legitimate?

Answer 1

I don't care what anybody says, Censorship is bad in so many ways.

Yes, it blocks all harmful and offensive phrases from little children.

But that is no excuse. It's not a higher authorities job to make sure that children aren't reading "bad" stuff, that's the parents job. People shouldn't read or watch certain things. There's a certain amount of class you should hae if something you are saying/reading is being read by a general public.

Our Constitution/bill of rights states that we have freedom of speech and the press. If you are posting/writing, speaking something that mayv offend someone, then it's your responsibility to live up to that. It's not anybody else's rights to silence what you have to say.

Answer 2

Censorship is evil. I think a lot of religious people make the mistake of agreeing with censorship, because they can't rationalize the thought of saying it is ok for a musician or actor to say things that are so vulgar. The problem is if you have censorship, you have to give that power to censor into someones hands. That power should never be in the governments hands. If you think it is a representation of moral fiber and goodness you are sadly mistaken. Even if you believe it is, remember this is relatively a young country, one day the government may turn into one far from the one you see today, it could be a gradual change, but once it gets to a certain point, you will not want it having the power to censor.

Answer 3

Uh... so far as I can tell censorship and propaganda have always been good things. I know of no society that did not in some way restrict its citizen's ability to say whatever they wanted or did not in some way slant favourably toward some things and away from others for their own benefit. Do you?

Why would we want people able to say ANYTHING they wanted? Do you really want someone who doesn't like you to call your boss and tell him about the fictional drugs he sells you? Do you really want corporations to market adult products to children just to make a few more bucks? And that's just the tip of the iceberg.

Likewise, what really is the difference between propaganda and marketing? Or political speeches? Or job interviews? Do you propose to eliminate all these activities as well? Note that propaganda is not necessarily false... but it is necessarily an attempt at influence.

The point is that the boundary between these negative-associated words and very positive activities are (if they exist at all) so thin as to be negligible in practice. People, groups, and even countries SHOULD be allowed to promote themselves and their ideas. But likewise people SHOULD be protected from damaging types of promotion. Exactly how you balance these two interests is where the whole thing gets tricky.

Answer 4

Censorship blocks mention of greed as a motivator in genocide. People say children should see certain things. In wars in Africa children have been seeing people blown up and all sorts of terrible things. Do people say wars are not for children we should not allow them. It would seem it makes it seem more legitimate for wars to happen. Terms like ''surgical'' strike, insurgent, Moab, Shock And Awe, contribute to distancing people from facts. Shock And Awe could be compared to The German Blizt Krieg a combination of Airplanes,Tanks and infantry. There was an ironic name in The First Gulf War this was Desert Storm. Which could make U.S. soldiers Storm Troopers. Another thing by that name happened in The Balkans also had the name Storm in it. This was what was referred to as ethnic cleansing which was said to be done by Serbian forces. Possibly Croation. The term ethnic cleansing was preferred to genocide. Nazis reffered to genocide as cleansing, extermination.News reporters referred what was happening as ethnic cleansing. Could be propaganda is involved in use of term. Yugoslavia was a Socialist place so could be. Might be New Ustache and Fascists came back to power would explain things. Then might be propaganda on part of Nato organisation,U.S., other countries.

Answer 5

Censorship IS propaganda.......example, the 'book burnings' in the 30's....propanganda against these classics led to their 'overdone' censorship.

For the good of the few, the many are told something is not good for them....the good of the many outweigh the good of the few...the good of the few outweigh the good of the many.

Who are the few? The children who cannot see a program(not a nudey!) because the parents ban it...and the same children drag it up on the internet, or "Little Jimmy has a copy of the movie and he's showing it to everybody...his parents aren't home!"

Who are the many? Are they the intelligent majority? No way!
Who are these 'many?'

Elysabeth...poemhunter.com

Answer 6

Or illegitimate. But then the main point of censorship is to protect propaganda. Even a small truth, widely acknowledged, can kill a big lie.

The other purpose of censorship is to destroy the multicultural nature of modern society. You can eradicate other culture's distinctive expressions or even different ways of seeing the world, by claiming they offend you.

Answer 7

I never thought about it that way but i guess you have a point. because it doesn't show the full side of something like it doesn't have to be nudity, I mean like on the news, basically censorship is to conceal and propaganda also conceals.

Answer 8

Censorship is not a good thing, unless we are in a war and it is something of a national secret.

Answer 9

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- is good. Propaganda is a good and necessary component of a successful campaign in the ongoing War on Terror.

Answer 10

censorship is just a way to make people think that what you are not explicitly seeing doesnt happen in reality.