Censorship: Freedom Or Suppression ? :: essays research papers

Censorship Freedom or Suppression ?Government censorship can be looked at as a benignity or an unneeded burden.I personally feel that all censorship is completely unnecessary and should befound unconstitutional. It is the countless moral views that bring no rightanswer for what should and should not be censored. I know that the governancesversion of censorship varies greatly from mine, just as mine does from a world simple view.The citizens of the United States are living in a pure democracy thathas given us all first amendment rights. This alone should mean that theirshould be no governance intervention on a code of ethics or morality. Thisshould mean that we as citizens should be allowed complete freedom of our ownchoices. Our government was impersonate up to make laws and to keep our society in order.They were doing a fine job until they started making decisions for us on what isor isnt decent. The most recent sample of this is the Communication DecencyAct of 1996(Located in the Telecommunications Act Of 1996). This act more orless states that the Internet should be censored and be given restrictions. Thefirst topic this brings up is who owns the Internet. No one really owns itbecause it is really thousands of computer networked together. The main backboneof the Internet was originally made up of government funded universities andother government institutions. However that is no longer the case. Now themajority of the Internet is run and operated by independent services andevery twenty-four hour period citizens. The Internet is a modern day symbol of the freedom of speechwe have in our society. The government has no right to tell us what we can andcan not do in our homes. No one is forcing anyone to go to any specific area ofthe Internet for anything. These are all choices made with our own free will. Ifeel that the government is clearly violating the fine line between church andstate. The Job of the church is to keep up moral and ethical standards in ourworld. Obviously the government got the disparage job description for clearly theyare violating the trust they have in the Church doing its job.I know that if they put me in charge of censorship things would be a lotdifferent from how they are today. The first step I would make would becensoring all Ex-lax and Imodium D commercials. I find it passing peculiarthat these commercials always seem to appear right during dinner.