Censorship and Freedom of Speech

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Censorship may be protection from inappropriate materials, but it also limits free speech. For the limitation of free speech, it is reasonable why people are emphatically against censorship. It is understood that there is a need to filter some of the materials released in today’s society, but too much is being done by people who have no right meddling with everyone’s rights. Civilization has always been plagued by a never ending battle being fought over what is deemed right and wrong. In today’s culture, censorship oppresses everything in the media. From movies and music to television and even news stories, most of the content viewed today has been filtered one way or another. Restrictions have been in place since early societies have been established.

Freedom of speech and freedom of the press, two of Americans’ basic rights, were in place in ancient societies “that existed long before the creation of the United States” (Friedman).

“The clash between the desire for free speech and the concern for the effect it had on society” (Friedman) has always worried those afraid of what c...

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