Censorship
Censorship
Censorship is a variety of things from yelling "fire" in a crowded theater to showing
sexual intercourse on television. These things aren't all either, there are millions of things we use
or see every day that are censored for a reason. The reason can be many but the three most
important reasons are for an adult or child’s well being, for the decency of our society and for
privacy of each other. All of these things are censored because our lives are influenced by these
reasons in one way or another. This will tell you that with out censorship we would live in a
world so dirty and irresponsible so indecent and shameful that it could not exist. We pretty
much ignore the growth in violence and sexual abuse in our movies and on television. Have
they gone away? According to researchers at the University of Pennsylvania, by the time an
average child leaves high school, he or she will have watched the happening of 18,000 murders
on television.
Prime time says the National Coalition on Television Violence, is filled with
degrading sexual material and incidents where violence is strongly glamorized or used to excite.
There have been 85 major studies of the effects of such violence on children. Eighty-four of
the eighty-five concluded that it caused an increase in all manner of aggressive behavior, up to
and including homicide. What happened to the one study that disagreed? Well, they were paid
off by the National Broadcasting Company that just shows how guilty they are of producing
violence from television. Another study shows that American children are having sexual
intercourse at an average age of 16.
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