17 May 07How has censorship affected different human communities?Censorship, as I had defined before is the act of censoring. The act of censoring is the prevention of letting undesired information in all forms to reach the masses, usually done by some form of authority. In our country, censorship is carried out by the government to protect several interests. However, in doing so, there are some consequences that would result.Censorship limits creativity. While schools, parents and teachers encourage students to think out of the box, to produce a spark of magic by being creative, censorship is the resistive force in this bid to drive our children forward. By thinking out of the box, we can come up with many ideas, opinions and theories. However, if these were to be shot down almost immediately without hesitation, what is the point of being creative in the first place. With censorship, our people, espescially the young ones, are oblivious to many things around the world. Issues such as homosexuality or government ineffiency should be widely debated about in schools as students would gain a wider knowledge and insight about the huge world beneath. Only then, would our students really become smart, bright and thinking students, rather than just students who become slaves to the book.Not to mention, with censorship, our local entertainment industry might not be able to buzz to life like those abroad. Attitude songs with vulgarities are gaining popularity with each passing day, while movies with homosexuality content add spice to a original storyline becuase of its scarcity here. This can help take our economy to another level, but yet, it is not being adopted.Hence, censorship has impacted on many of our human communities, such as our students and the country as a whole.
# posted by ^Ic0n^ @ 5/20/2007 08:49:00 PM
