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Essay / The Negative Impact of Media Censorship - 1900
Every human being has guaranteed fundamental rights and freedoms, whether it is freedom of speech or the freedom to express oneself. However, the government seems increasingly determined to limit these freedoms by using censorship to confine these rights that we usually take for granted. The most important aspect of media in general is that it allows people to express themselves freely. In fact, this freedom of expression that music allows us is one of the main reasons why it exists. Unfortunately, many current artists have forgotten this, but censorship still seems to be there to limit the expression of those who choose to place deeper messages in their songs. Tackling censorship is much more important than it seems at first glance; bringing down censorship would help preserve the expression of thought. This would help preserve the right to listen to the unchanged forms of everything. More importantly, it would help preserve the fundamental right to speech, which is rapidly weakening. Censorship has always changed many people's lives, whether they know it or not. People are constantly exposed to the censored version of entertainment. The movies they watch, the music they listen to, and the games they play have all been examined through different classification systems for anything that could be construed as "obscene." Once someone finds something, the creator of the work has no choice but to delete, edit, and essentially censor the offending portion, otherwise it will never see the light of day. public consumption. Censorship has been used for all sorts of works, for all sorts of reasons. The many examples of album art provided on TabooTunes show different types...... middle of paper ......ip." Tabootunes.com - Music Censorship. Web. May 17, 2010. .This gallery does not was not one of as many taboo songs as taboo album covers, giving a new view of censorship related to music. The gallery also shows another method of censorship that could be used to limit creativity. Brian “BBC NEWS | United Kingdom | Review | The free society still has limits. " BBC NEWS | News Front Page. February 10, 2006. Web. May 16, 2010. .This article presents the lyrics of a song that was previously considered offensive, which is now clean by today's standards and effectively argues for the freedom of 'phrase. Yee, Danny. "Music censorship in Australia". Danny Yee webpage, May 27, 2010. Uses a quote from the source that illustrates the "elitist" nature of the censorship...