The Positive Effects Of Censorship And Its Effect On Society

Censorship is blocking or hiding something that is considered unacceptable to the public eye or a group of a certain age. In looking at the effects of censorship on society, it is apparent that it can both be beneficial and harmful. Censorship is seen to be beneficial through preventing dangerous people from viewing government documents and preventing children from viewing inappropriate content. Censorship can be harmful when it comes to taking away rights declared in the Constitution and setting unequal standards for men and women. These examples show how effects censorship has on society can be both good and bad. Looking at facts and credible opinions is a way to truly see how censorship has negative and positive effects. Censorship can be very beneficial to society. Tom Blankley, who works in the Edelman public relations firm in Washington agrees. By looking at his analysis on censorship which is,

For example, according to the Washington times “ Mousa Abu Marzook, a Hamas terrorist who is listed as a specially designated terrorist by the U.S. Treasury Department. Similarly, a website run by the and saw fit to run a piece on the meaning of jihad written by Muhammad Hussein Fadlallah, a spiritual leader of Hezbollah, another U.S.-designated terrorist organization.” This means that this man had a big role in terrorist attacks on American soil and if government sites weren’t censored to the public eye, they could have easily attacked the white house, which, was one of their plans to do back in 2001. The facts are that censoring topics like Islamic violence and our government policies is to help prevent mass hysteria and people of the wrong mindset of our government to obtain information that could cause an attack on the U.S. Censorship overall is trying to protect us from learning too much and from others to be learning to much of things they could use against the public and the