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Civil Liberties Union American Civil Liberties
1,725 words
Surfing the Internet is like strolling through a
library. With just one click of the mouse, a
person can enter an amazing world of information.
The Internet takes away the inconvenience of
having to drive to the public library, plus, the
Internet is open twenty-four hours a day. But, not
only can a person research information on the
Internet, he can shop for products, read the
latest news and stocks, meet new people, not only
in the United States, but in other countries as
well, look for a job, ...
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2 Live Crew Rage Against The Machine
1,466 words
Censorship in music has been a major problem
plaguing America since the early nineteen forties.
It came to a head during the nineteen sixties with
the Vietnam War and the hippie movement. During
the nineteen seventies and eighties heavy metal
and hard rock were getting the brunt of the
censorship heat. Now in the nineteen nineties the
major focus of censorship is rap; primarily
gangster rap. Some of the main factors of music in
general that cause legal ramifications are sexual
content, suggestiv...
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Opposing Viewpoints Religious Beliefs
1,005 words
Censorship, a controversial word that has been
with us since who knows when. Ancient dictators
would burn books because they didn't like them and
force people to believe what he did. The question
I ask myself though is if censorship in Libraries
and schools is justified. My answer is no, and
that is what I will try to convince you.
Censorship is ridiculous, unfair and selfish, and
censors are hypocritical, intolerant, and
arrogant. What I mean when I say censorship is
ridiculous is exactly that....
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Parents Music Resource Center Types Of Music
1,522 words
In today's society, all types of music artists are
expressing their views, opinions and feelings in
their songs about what they see and what they
know. This is on of the great things about this
country, the freedom to express yourself. It is
not fair, nor is it constitutional that music
should be censored in anyway. It is not only rap
music trying to be censored it is in all types of
music. They are taking away their rights and it
isn't fair. As reported in the New York Times.
"Wall-Mart CD stan...
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Freedom Of Expression Television Censorship Government
524 words
The uses and abuses of censorship in developed and
developing countries have been under discussion
for quite a long time. Although societies claim
for freedom of thought and expression, which are
indispensable to live peacefully, censorship is
sometimes necessary, due to the fact tha its abuse
may badly influence the behaviour of a society and
may also result in anarchism. There are different
kinds of censorship. The most common ones are:
governmental, press and television censorship. The
first ...
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Violence On Television Years Of Age
1,428 words
Censorship is a word with many meanings. In a
broadcast sense the word censor, according to the
Pocket Oxford Dictionary (seventh edition 1984),
means an official with power to suppress whole or
parts of books, plays, films, letters, news, etc
on the grounds of obscenity, or threat to
security. Suppress and obscenity are the key words
in that definition. Censorship occurs when we
watch television or a movie, listen to the radio
or buy music, or even read a book or magazine.
Censorship also occur...
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Forms Of Media Censorship Of The Internet
825 words
Censorship is a word that breeds strong emotions
in many people. Whether it is associated with
speech, fashion, or the access to information.
Censorship has been around since before the time
of the bible. It has caused wars and revolutions.
Censorship has always been a staple of
Dictatorship and Totalitarian governments. These
types of governments thrive off censorship because
it gives them power to control, restrain, and
limit what people hear, read, see, and speak.
Since the beginning of mass ...
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Great Britain South Park
1,145 words
Movies are one of the biggest conveyors of morals
and ideas to people in todays world. The movie
Money Train portrayed a criminally insane man that
would like subway ticket booths on fire with
gasoline. A few weeks after the movie was in
theaters, someone started setting ticket booths on
fire. When the perpetrator was caught, he blamed
his actions on the movie. He said that the movie
influenced him into doing what he did. In an
online forum it was determined that, Censorship
provides people with...
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Hard Core Pornography Violence Against Women
900 words
The freedom to Censorship Censorship The freedom
to read is essential to the democratic way of life
(Censorship News 1996). Today our freedom is under
attack. Private groups such as mothers 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 from the general public. The
suppression of reading materials is suppression of
creative ...
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Red Riding Hood Sexual Content
867 words
The subject of censorship is a very controversial
one, especially the banning of books. Many people
believe they must protect themselves and others
from the evils of many classic books and works of
art because they can be deemed indecent in one way
or another. Many believe that this is absurd and
censorship in its current form is a violation of
our First Amendment right to free speech.
Personally, I align myself with the latter,
however I do feel there are occasions where
censorship is justifiab...
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First Amendment Rights Freedom Of Speech
1,624 words
For centuries, parents have wrestled with the
question of how to raise their children with the
best moral and ethical standings. Along with this
question come others such as, " What are the
right morals? " Todays parents are no
different than they were in the past and the
struggle continues. Its tempting to try to protect
children from the perceived evils in modern
society. One such moral issue is the banning of
books from high school libraries and sometimes
even classrooms, which may ...
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U S Constitution Freedom Of Speech
1,216 words
The Grueling Debate over Music Censorship In March
of 1998, Shawn Thomas, a musician was arrested,
his crime was not murder or a traffic violation,
and it was writing music. In his music, he
criticized California's three strikes and you out
law, and when his parole officer heard it, he had
Shawn arrested. This is just one example of the
censorship of music. There are people and groups
that plead for any form of censorship; however,
there is a stronger and larger outcry against
censorship. Only t...
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Day To Day Kurt Vonnegut
580 words
In the book Fahrenheit 451 the theme is a society
/ world that revolves around being basically brain
washed or programmed because of the lack of people
not thinking for themselves concerning the loss of
knowledge, and imagination from books that dont
exist to them. In such stories as the Kurt
Vonnegut's " You have insulted me
letter" also involving censorship to better
society from vulgarity and from certain aspects of
life that could be seen as disruptive to day to
day society which l...
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Simon Wiesenthal Indecent Material
2,900 words
As the end of the twentieth century nears, a new
medium and tool has emerged as the future of
communications, business, news, education, and
entertainment. This tool is the Internet, a
worldwide network of computers currently connected
by phone lines. While it is still in its infancy,
its power as a medium is very great, and this is
being recognized ever more frequently by the
businesses and people it connects. However, it is
also abundant with information that is considered
inappropriate, adult...
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Communications Decency Act Carnegie Mellon
4,437 words
Censoring the Internet The internet offers a huge
wealth of information both good and bad,
unfortunately the vary nature of the internet
makes policing this new domain practically
impossible. The internet began as a small
university network in the United States and has
blossomed into a vast telecommunications network
spanning the globe. Today the internet is ruled by
no governing body and it is an open society for
ideas to be developed and shared in. Unfortunately
every society has its seedy und...
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Freedom Of Speech Pornography On The Internet
2,563 words
Censorship is a word of many meanings. In its
broadest sense it refers to suppression of
information, ideas, or artistic expression by
anyone, whether government officials, church
authorities, private pressure groups, or speakers,
writers, and artists. It may take place at any
point in time. communicators of information that
create dissension from the status-quo are punished
and others that would follow them are subverted
from the same expression. Restraints have the
effect of limiting the diver...
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Communications Decency Act United States Congress
2,404 words
Introduction Don Daufenbach stared at his computer
screen. Bobby 2 vt was e-mailing him again, and
this time he seemed excited. Sounds like we have a
deal, was the message that came in, Daufenbach
says. As for what I like... the younger the
better, it said. In the next week, Daufenbach
says, Bobby 2 vt sent him dozens of pictures of
children having sex, hoping for videos in return.
Instead, Bobby 2 vt ended up with a swarm of
federal agents at his door last February.
Daufenbach, it turned out wa...
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Years Of Age Supreme Court
3,217 words
Imagine a place where you have access to anything
and everything one could want. Some would say that
is only existent in a utopia, and some would say
that describes the Internet. Many adults go on to
the net and access pornographic material that
would be unsuitable for children. This is called
cyber porn. The controversy lies in the fact that
children are accessing these materials also.
Government, activist groups, and concerned parents
are fighting to regulate obscene material found
over the In...
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Seven Dirty Words Communications Decency Act
2,659 words
Reno v. ACLU The conflict began on February 8,
1996, when President Clinton signed the CDA law
and ACLU, along with EPIC and eighteen other
plaintiffs, immediately filed its legal challenge.
ACLU v. Reno represents the first legal challenge
to censorship provisions of the Communications
Decency Act (CDA). The CDA makes it a crime,
punishable by up to two years in jail and / or a $
250, 000 fine, for anyone to engage in speech that
is? indecent? or? patently offensive? on computer
networks if the...
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Upper Saddle River Nj Prentice Saddle River Nj Prentice Hall
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Should The Internet Be Censored Or Screened Should
The Internet Be Censored Or Screened To Protect
Users Should the Internet Be Censored or Screened
to Protect Users? Right now hundreds of thousands
of people have just sat down in front of a
computer. After brief negotiation of something
called a mouse, these same people will be
transported into a realm of virtually unlimited
possibilities. Beep... beep... pulse... waiting
almost there, wham! connection. To clarify, this
is not a transcription o...
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