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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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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 denoting the ordinary run of "girlie
magazines and the second denoting pictures , literature and so on that deal with
rape, sadism, masochism, bestiality, necrophilia and ...

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Added: 6/5/2008 07:10:32 PM
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