Examples Of Censorship In America

Censorship in America Stop! You are not allowed to read this it could include subversive messages. Subversive messages can make people do or think horrible things. Making people do or think horrible things, whatever those might be is the reason why some people decide it is better to take materials away from students. By taking materials away from students they feel that they are protecting them, but in reality they are hurting society. Censorship causes erosion in education, keeps the masses from expanding their horizons, and stops the public from making informed decisions about foreign policies. Education is lessened when people are not allowed to view other ideas. Judge Dolgin seemed to endorse this philosophy in the case of McKamey
As a result the state textbook committee rejected thirty-seven books (Hechinger).
This is one example of how people use censorship to influence religious and cultural learning. A few people denied a whole state from learning about different cultures. Books, including textbooks, teach readers about peoples and culture and history and if they are banned ignorance will flourish. While schools have censored the internet with the best of intentions, it unintentionally has kept sometimes vital information from the students. The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and the Online Policy Group (OPG) released a study documenting the effects of internet blocking, also known as filtering, in U.S. schools. The study found that blocking software over blocked state mandated curriculum topics extensively for every web page correctly blocked as advertised, one or more was blocked incorrectly (“Study…”).
This unintentional blocking has caused many problems while looking up information on school projects using school computers. Websites that hold valuable information can and are