Censorship is a very large part of our western civilization. From banning books to political correctness, censorship can either be beneficial or detrimental to society. My jeremiad to america is watch out for the detrimental effects. It is easy to let emotions get in the way of this issues. You hear people raise the question of “what about the children?”. This is misleading because it is not the governments job to take an emotional standpoint. Now i'm not saying we should not censor anything and have total transparency, but things have been getting rather ridiculous especially along the lines of the political correctness issue; midgets being “vertically challenged” and blackboards being renamed chalkboards in order to not offend black people. One must learn to take censorship with a grain of salt. Ideas are important things and if someone can censor them then they can very well stop the spread of ideas all together. The government may say that they are saving us from ourselves but is that the role they were originally meant for? If someone can tell you what to watch or read then essentially that someone is telling you what to say and think.
Maybe the government does not have the right to save us from ourselves. I like your last sentence. Nice points.
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