10 May 07Censorship can never be justified. Do you agree?I believe that censorship cannot be justified. Despite countless government attempts in filtering the undesired information from other countries or even locally, people have found means and ways to work round this obstacle, still getting censored materials fully.What is censorship? It is the process of censoring, cancelling of undesired information from reaching to the masses. This includes the censoring of controversial issues like homosexuality, religions and the content of certain movies. I have to agree that censorship is important because it plays a part in creating a stable government with least political strife. This is because movies or cartoons throwing indirect insults at our government may cause our people of the country to lose confidence in their leadership, leading to possible uproars within the governing body and revolts against the current government.Recently, Taiwanese celebrity Rainie Yang shot a movie, named as 'Spiderlillies'. It was a movie about her underlying love for a tatoo specialist, which was of the same gender. Even though this movie was rated as PG in taiwan, it rose up shockingly to a rating of R21 whent it hit our shores. Was this censorhip on the government's part of not allowing our young ones to be exposed to the controversial issue about homosexuality given that singapore was a multi-racial country?The evolution of many forms of medias, espescially the internet, have formed something of a resistance to governments' fruitless attempts at censorship. From video sharing websites, to peer-to-peer sharing softwares, censored materials can be view online with a click of a button. Such is the simplicity of obtaining these information, is that censorship cannot be justified.Moreover, there are no fixed rules on which censorship can act on. ITt would be fruitless if the government is working on something yet without setting its boundaries.Hence, censorship would never be justified or effective.
# posted by ^Ic0n^ @ 5/20/2007 08:38:00 PM
