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Censorship - School Essays

Censorship


The freedom to read is essential to the democratic way of life. But
today, that freedom is under attack. Private groups and public authorities
everywhere are working to remove both books and periodicals from sale, to
exclude certain books from public schools, to censor and silence magazines
and newspapers, and to limit "controversial" books and periodicals to the
general public. The suppression of reading materials is suppression of
creative thought. Books and periodicals are not the only ones being
suppressed by pressures to the political and social systems. They are also
being brought against the educational system, films, radio, television, and
against the graphic and theatre arts. ...

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is difficult to discuss honestly. After all, what makes a thing
obscene? It is Something too vague perhaps to be defined. It's an elusive
term we use, but can't explain. Different people often see things
differently. Some see obscenity in nude pictures, statues, paintings, etc.
While others find less obscenity in these things. All the same, "obscene"
isn't the same as "wrong" or "bad". Clearly obscenity is not identical with
evil. It only covers a single segment of it. But what is that segment? A
look at the words "obscenity" and "pornography" suggests that it is a
segment that didn't worry people very much till relatively recently.

Though censorship was known in english law quite early on, it wasn't
for obscenity but for heresy and sedition."Undue" exploitation of sex" is
what criminal law in Canada prohibits. This is how criminal law defines
obscenity. But it is rather vague. It doesn't differentiate between
"ordinary obscenity" and "hard-core pornography." The first ...

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Added: 11/2/2004 10:33:48 PM
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