Cultural Emergency? In the latter half of the 1990s‚ censorship became an obsessive topic in the Indian media. For about five years‚ it seemed that one could not turn around without coming across yet another story about a magazine editor being harassed or even beaten by right wing goons‚ about cinemas showing the films of Deepa Mehta or Mira Nair being trashed‚ about Bollywood starlets or saucy models being summoned to court for obscenity or indecency‚ about offending books‚ paintings and articles
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"The Greater Part of the Stories Current Today We Shall Have to Reject" The Influence of reading material and television on children’s abilities to distinguish between what is true and not true Throughout time and history‚ the concerns of many have been made regarding the influence of the media on children and our young people. Although media‚ its various forms and those who are in control of them have changed throughout as time has progressed‚ the concerns still are the same. Plato wrote about
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central managers to make‚ but inevitably it was decided that the benefits of operating in China outweighed the costs. 2. Do you think that Google should have entered China and engaged in self-censorship‚ given the company’s long standing mantra “Don’t be evil”? Is it better to engage in self-censorship than have the government censor for you? In order to keep up with the rest of the search engines‚ it was essential for Google to establish operations in China. As stated in the case study‚ “With
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pornography banned in order to help women ’s position in the social spheres of society. Her opponent is Ronald Dworkin who stands for negative liberty in all its forms‚ believes that the banning of pornography is not the answer to help women ’s status. Censorship to him is an infringement on one ’s freedom and he does not advocate any sort of chains on freedom in anyway. MacKinnon argues that pornography should be banned in order to help women become socially equal to men. Her logic is that since men see
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Ben Franklin stated that “Any society that will give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both”. In one form or another our society embraces censorship whether it’s intentional or not in order to ensure safety. Censorship is the suppression or prohibition of any parts of books‚ films‚ news‚ etc. that are considered obscene‚ politically unacceptable‚ or a threat to security. However the main contradiction is between the idea of safety and freedom. Which arises
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6‚192 individual pieces of content from its search results‚ blog posts or archives of online videos‚ according to the report” ("Google reporting "alarming" rise in government censorship requests") This might be a surprising number‚ but other countries in the West and especially so in the East are exercising this censorship as well. “Meanwhile‚ nations like China‚ Iran‚ Syria‚ Vietnam‚ Saudi Arabia and others continue to aggressively filter Internet content and silence their critics‚ often with the
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books week. Petrilli is a teen service librarian‚ a musician‚ and serves on the YALSA’s Intellectual Freedom Committee. “To Read or Not to Read: Understanding Book Censorship” by Deborah Connelly‚ was published in the Community and Junior College Libraries in the year of 2009. In Connelly’s article‚ she wants people to know what book censorship means and how librarians deal with people who want to challenge books. In both articles each writer gives a description of why books are banned. Petrilli’s article
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grow to become a better place. What censorship does is keep us protected; leaving us living sheltered lives. If we never see a racist comment how are we to know that racism is bad? At the same time Censorship can be a good thing because it keeps children from seeing pornography‚ and terrible acts of violence. However censorship should not keep anyone from seeing literature‚ even if it is considered slightly explicit in a sexual‚ racial‚ or violent manner. Censorship should leave the ideas of people
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The Morality of Pornography As the morality of pornography as a form of free speech is as questionable as it is popular‚ the question that I would like to raise is whether the correct response to the harm associated with pornography is censorship. MacKinnon argues that pornography represents everything that women have struggled to overcome through feminist suffrage including battery‚ sexual harassment‚ and prostitution. Nadine Strossen‚ although she does not deny MacKinnon’s claims‚ argues that
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statutory censorship and classification body under the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting‚ Government of India. It is tasked with "regulating the public exhibition of films under the provisions of the Cinematograph Act 1952". It assigns certifications to films‚ television shows‚ television ads‚ and publications for exhibition‚ sale or hire in India. Films can be publicly exhibited in India only after they are certified by the Board. (See also: Censorship in India) “ | Film censorship becomes
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