Essays Tagged: "censor"
Questions of Ethics in Computer Systems and their Future
st regulated public access system in history. What I believe the attempt hereis to regulate through censorship. Since it is almost impossible to censor the phone networkswithout actually eaves droppin ... the phone networkswithout actually eaves dropping on your phone, they have decided to regulate and censor yourwritten word. The danger in this is what you write as an opinion may be construed by that ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science > Computer Ethics
Censorship
CENSORSHIPThe freedom to read is essential to the democratic way of life. Buttoday, that freedom is ... ing to remove both books and periodicals from sale,to exclude certain books from public schools, to censor and silencemagazines and newspapers, and to limit controversial books and periodicals to the ... against the educational system, films, radio, television, and against the graphic and theater arts. Censorship occurs often in todays society, much of which is justifiable, but in some cases is simply ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays
Censorship
attack on this freedom comes from parental advisory stickers. These stickers are used as a form of censorship against an artist and his or her lyrics. I feel that if a label will produce an album, th ... itable.In order to begin the debate on whether or not parental advisory stickers serve as a form of censorship, one must consider what the word censor implies. The word censor defined by Webster dicti ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law
Censorship
'Censorship' 'The song [Cop Killer] is fiction, not fact. At no point did I go out and say'Let ... National Review, July 20, 1992. Statements such as that has started an on going debate about censorship in thetelevision and music industry. What exactly is censorship? Some feel censorship is ... exactly is censorship? Some feel censorship is aviolation of the first amendment right. Others say censorship is a must in the violent,abusive world we call 'society'. Who has the right to censor? Wh ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law
Censorship
attack on this freedom comes from parental advisory stickers. These stickers are used as a form of censorship against an artist and his or her lyrics. I feel that if a label will produce an album, th ... In order to begin the debate on whether or not parental advisory stickers serve as a form of censorship, one must consider what the word censor implies. The word censor defined by Webster dicti ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies
Teenage Years
od, were obviously never children. Few people can remember the truth aboutadolescence. Their minds 'censor' their memories; and have them believe that being a teenager was was one big party, free ofca ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Society and community > Children and Youngsters
Censorship: A Growing Issue
'When a government restricts what its citizens can read, that is censorship. When parents have input on what local officials do in the schools, that is democracy' (H ... en parents have input on what local officials do in the schools, that is democracy' (Hernandez 12). Censorship, though not recognized in the general public, is far reaching and important to those who ... . According to a report from People for the American Way, there were 338 challenges in 48 states to censor material, and 50% were successful (Hernandez 12). And everyone in our survey believed in cens ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law
Censorship on the Internet
hough President Clinton already signed the 1996 Telecommunication ActI on Thursday Feb 8, 1996, the censorship issue on the net still remains unresolved. In fact, censorship in cyberspace is unconscio ... l remains unresolved. In fact, censorship in cyberspace is unconscionable and impossible. Trying to censor the Internet its problematic because the net is an international issue, there is no standard ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law
How free is too free? Speaks of government censorship, private-sector censorship, freedom of speech
uch material is harmful or dangerous to our society.Many people are asking whether or not we should censor offensive material. They believe that some material is too obscene for society to hear or see ... terial. They believe that some material is too obscene for society to hear or see. The advocates of censorship get riled up because the movie rating council doesn't give a move an R-rating for having ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law
More than meets the eye. This essay outlines the issues with didital manipulation within the media. It expresses that even the slightest change to an image can have a great impact upon the truth.
society, it is becoming easier, especially with modern technology to manipulate news media, and to censor the information, which reaches the public. The manipulation of images can give misleading imp ... in the portrayal of women as impossibly thin and beautiful.As we can see, manipulation of images is censorship of the truth and in manipulating these images they also manipulate people's beliefs and j ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Current Issues
The necessity of Censorship and how it applies to "The Catcher In The Rye".
IS CENSORSHIP NECESSARY?Many a time did we buy or borrow a certain movie, book or political magazin ... h or scene just isn't there. It is then that we realize that the copy in our hands was subjected to censorship. At that very moment we feel a sudden gust of rage or anger erupting from within us. A ce ... r that forces out a question, which unfolds a series of other questions. Why was this movie or book censored? Who carried out the act of censoring? How did this person or group of persons know what to ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American
Challenge to Slavery - "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" by Mark.
Huckleberry Finn. In some extreme cases the novel has even been banned by public school systems and censored by public libraries. The basis for these censorship campaigns has been the depiction of one ... aracter is described to the reader, whom some characterize as racist. However, before one begins to censor a novel, it is important to separate the ideas of the author from the ideas of his characters ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature
Should Music be Censored?
Why are there so many outcries to ban rock and gangsta rap? Why does our government want to censor music? Is it really the violence that comes from the lyrics of the songs, and the attitudes t ... d the attitudes that it creates, both positive and negative?People say that the things they want to censor are bad, but are those materials really bad? Could these music types be referred to as bad th ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies
The European enlightenment.
religion as the main source for answers to questions. The church and government tried their best to censor the ideas that arose during the Enlightenment, but the ideas which arose in the enlightenment ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > European History
Symbolism in Madame Bovary
sensual satisfaction. It is no wonder, with the detailed writing the French government attempted to censor Flaubert when Madame Bovary was published in 1856. Although the vast majority of theorems pen ... d by his parents, is directly related to Flaubert's rebellion toward France in relation to enforced censorship. The mandatory overseeing of literature, and limitations thereof, are of prime importance ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature
Video Game Console violence
empting to ban the sale of violent videogames to children. According to the proponents of videogame censorship, the videogame industry is directly responsible for the recent violence in several Americ ... American high schools. They claim that the only solution to this recent outbreak of violence is to censor videogames and restrict their sale to minors. Over the past several years, politicians such a ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science
Youth access to Internet Pornography; should it be banned? Title: Trash Folder is full.
e accidentally encountered sex sites on the Internet"(61). If someone tried researching pornography censorship, several porn links would appear along with the results. The U.S. Supreme Court has tried ... ome a violent or sexually aggressive person. Although it may ultimately be impossible to completely censor adolescences from pornography even with parental support, the Internet needs to be one less p ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues
The changes that have to be made in Turkish Education System.
effect Turkish people's psychology and visual elements that contain violence.Turkish TV News should censor their news content harmful programs have to be changed due to their, undisputable, negative e ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies
Censorship on T.V.
Is censorship good or bad, on T.V., radio, at school, ect... There should be no censorship on T.V. afte ... e no censorship on T.V. after a certain time because most children if not all should be asleep. The censorship that will be explained will be on T.V. whether it is good or bad and comparing it to Scot ... at will be explained will be on T.V. whether it is good or bad and comparing it to Scotland. Censorship can be good depending on whom you talk to. It is good because it stops young children wat ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies
Censorship
"Censorship""The song [Cop Killer] is fiction, not fact. At no point did I go out and say 'Let's do i ... Ice-T, National Review, July 20, 1992.Statements such as that have started an on going debate about censorship in the television and music industry. What exactly is censorship? Some feel censorship is ... exactly is censorship? Some feel censorship is a violation of the first amendment right. Others say censorship is a must in the violent, abusive world we call "society". Who has the right to censor? W ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights