Essays on Censorship

Internet is the most widely used source for exchange information all over the globe. It also provides a platform in which we can express our views and talk to likeminded individuals. Moreover, it is affordable to most of the people of the world. It is...

Censorship aims to protect children or other venerable people by blocking content deemed inappropriate. This however means that the public can only be exposed to things the government allows them to view. In many cases censorship is a positive thing. In this day and age...

In this modern times, information is very easy to obtain. It is different when we compared it to the previous age. Right now, thanks to the internet we can obtain information wherever and whenever we want to. The internet provides free flowing data and information...

Art has a long history of giving rise to vocal outrage, but should there be restrictions on how far to push the boundaries? Art is no stranger to the gasp-inducing; in fact, it often strives on it. It’s not unusual to encounter art that can...

The official definition of censorship, according to the online Oxford Dictionary, is “the suppression or prohibition of any parts of books, films, news, etc.” Instances of censorship can be seen all the way back to the Greek philosopher, Socrates, in 399 B.C. when the Greek...

Introduction The Internet is a system that connects phones, gadgets that allow people around the globe to share information and communicate. In the beginning, the Internet was applied and created for the United States government to save essential data if there is a war and...

“Everything faded into mist. The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became truth.” This line, delivered in George Orwell’s sinister book, 1984, exemplifies a totalitarian government censoring information, thoughts, language and history to control its citizens. By doing so, the society unknowingly...

Internet censorship by definition “is the control or suppression of the publishing or accessing of information on the Internet” stated by Christopher Leberknight et al. in the article “A Taxonomy of Internet Censorship and Anti-Censorship” (2010). The thought of not being able to use the...

Despite being protected under the first amendment, the government is restricting more and more adult content due to its obscenity. Although some definitely find pornographic magazines, hip hop and rap music, and adult videos offensive, they are all protected under the first amendment. However, the...

Across the world, government officials are given the choice to either censor websites deemed unsuitable for citizens or to allow access to any available website online. Unfortunately, it’s very common for government officials to block access to individual websites and social media platforms of their...

A term commonly used today is to be “politically correct”, to speak so that you appeal to all minorities without offending anyone, as a politician would. This is played out dramatically in the book Fahrenheit 451; the society believed that every book offends some minority,...

The internet has continued to impact many lives since its initial release in the 1960s (Andrews, 2013). However, internet censorship has become a controversial topic amongst global policy makers, including Australia. According to the Australian Human Rights Commission, the internet has provided numerous opportunities for...

Introduction International speculation is ripe pertaining to the secrecy and high censorship of interweb expression in China. The seminal article by King et al. (2013) explores the researcher’s creation and testing of a central hypothesis exploring the purpose of China’s censorship program and how it...

The number of people accessing information and communication technologies has reached a critical mass around the world, especially with an emerging media outlet like social media. As a result, governments and social media companies felt the need to enforce more stringent monitoring and suppress the...

Internet has grown vastly since it was introduced to public in 1991. It was started as a network and till now it has grown to such an extent that there is nothing in the world that we cannot find. There is nothing that we cannot...

In this age of technology, everyone uses the internet. From individuals with different backgrounds and interests to companies and their everyday needs. Censorship occurs when what can be accessed, published, or viewed on the internet by the public is suppressed or controlled by regulators. Against...

China is home to one of the world’s most restrictive media environments and its most sophisticated system of censorship. Although, Article 35 of the constitution guarantees freedoms of speech, assembly, association, and publication, but such rights are subordinated to the discretion of the CCP and...

Censorship technology has frequently been perceived as an inequitable means to curb a citizen’s freedom of speech by filtering content that the authorities deem offensive to the public. In certain countries, the magnitude of censorship that is prevalent can be considered oppressive and threatening. However,...

Censorship has been in many cultures of the world since anybody can remember, especially in the United States where new technological advancements have brought on many new things and made new censorships for them. But in the music, television, and film business, censorship has limited...

The issue of censorship affects everyone. It covers all businesses, governments, relationships and even ourselves. Probably the most common form of censorship is self-censorship, which is the exercising of control over what one says and does, especially to avoid criticism. Whether noticeable or not, we...

In music, censorship can be defined as ‘the suppression or prohibition’, of any parts of music ‘that are considered obscene or politically unacceptable’ (Oxford University Press, 2019). This includes the editing of musical and lyrical content, cover artwork and music videos to meet certain guidelines,...

Nowadays, users are able to use many services which rely on constant Internet connectivity such as instant messaging, Google map, email, etc. However, there are various types of censorship when users trying to access these services and resources over the Internet. The state reviews the...

In Books II and III of Republic, Plato[1] argues for the censorship of stories and tales for the youth of their imaginative, Utopian city, and specifically for the youth of the ‘ruling’ class named the Guardians. He asserts that censoring certain tales, notably ones with...

Why is the censorship required? Well, this topic is actually debatable. “CENSOR” is a word that makes a lot of people uncomfortable, it seems as our right to freedom of speech and expression is being denied. William Westmoreland said “Without censorship things can get terribly...

In this day and age, accessing specific information couldn’t be easier. Whether its research, a school project or even a quick search on your favourite celebrity, all the information you seek is only a few clicks away. Twenty years ago looking up a specific topic...

During an interview, an average college student Allison White expressed her dissatisfaction with the idea of internet censorship saying, ‘I think that internet censorship goes against everything the internet stands for. The internet allows people to look up and discover anything and everything that is...

Late in the evening on the night of February 22nd 1984, Keith Jacobson ordered two explicit magazines for his personal leisure. These two publications ordered were titled “Bare Boys 1” and “Bare Boys 2” from a California based adult novelty shop. Keith Jacobson claims is...

Society, especially the young generation, has become dependent on the internet to express it, communicate, and research. What if the freedom to express oneself through the internet were taken away? It can come in the form of internet censorship. Censorship is the suppression of words,...

What is the Internet? How does it work? The Internet has the capacity of becoming something powerful and extensive, to the point that it can be used for almost any purpose, which depends on the information. It can be accessed by any and every individual...

Government control over its citizens is significant to the regime and it is this dominance over their people that leaves little room to question authority, but rather conform to the regime’s ideologies. This is portrayed in V for Vendetta by James McTeigue and in Brave...