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    topics that relate to the student body. In college, students often write for the school paper with hope of one day becoming a journalist or paid blogger. By the time a student journalist enters college they have most likely experienced some type of censorship. I believe that Student journalist should have all the same rights as a paid journalist has and not be censored on what they can and should not say. The First Amendment to the United States Constitution gives everyone the right to freedom of speech

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    Censorship and book banning are similar, but also different things that are in everyday lives of people. Book banning happens to books or other printed works such as essays or plays which are prohibited by law or to which free access is not permitted by other means. The practice of banning books is a form of censorship, from political, legal, religious, moral, or (less often) commercial motives. Censorship is the suppression or prohibition of any parts of books, films, news, etc. that are considered

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    York Times Co. v. Sullivan, New York Times Co. v. United States, and United States v. Manning, that have shaped how the freedom of the press clause should be applied, it has become very clear that the First Amendment does not always guard against censorship in university and college media, especially in private organizations. Based on the examination of public school freedom of the press cases in comparison to private universities freedom of the press examples, the research shows that private institutions

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    its existence, and students and parents alike met each act of censorship with strong retaliation because they know the themes and lessons the novel (independence, activism, and freedom of speech) will influence the reader more than the brief mentions of substance abuse, profanity, and anti-religious content. This novel, in its purest form, should be available to students all across the nation. There have been many cases of censorship for this book, one instance being at Venado Middle School in Irvine

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    Censorship vs. Moronic Television The author of the novel Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury, claims that the theme of his work is Moronic television. Fahrenheit 451 is set in a futuristic dystopian society where books are illegal. When one is not allowed to read books as an act of force from a governing body is a form of censorship because they are censoring books from the public. Therefore, there is controversy surrounding the theme of this novel. Is it Moronic television or is it censorship? The theme

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    In the novels Fahrenheit 451 and Oryx and Crake both had the theme of government censorship. In Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury the story of a man named Guy Montag living in a dystopian society in the future, where the government has outlawed books and ordered the fireman to burn them. Guy Montag a firefighter begins to questioning his living after an encounter with a young girl on duty. In Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood, could not have been any different from Fahrenheit 451, the story centering

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    Censorship and the Visual Arts Censorship is always the party of the arts market. Today, censorship is a remnant of the past that has almost ceased to exist. But it is very necessary, to form the necessary views among the population, and it is necessary to control art so that it does not go beyond the bounds of decency. The censorship is arbitrary limitation (which does not fit any logic, the result of free choice) and often political or religious freedom of expression. Newspapers, drawings, plays

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    Mill bases his argument against censorship on two premises. The first is that human beings are fallible, and we can never be entirely sure we have everything right. The second premise is that humans are corrigible – capable of being corrected. His argument is that censorship prevents humans from correcting errors. If a censored opinion is true, we lose the ability to learn the truth, and vice versa. He claims that free discussion is the best way of correcting our errors, which is most beneficial

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    Censorship is the practice of officially examining books, movies, etc., and suppressing unacceptable parts, censorship is the overt infringement on our first amendment right to freedom of speech and freedom of expression, and should only be used if the thing being showed is a threat . In the article “Censorship & Democracy: An Overview By Michael Aliprandini Co-Author: Geraldine Wagner” says “ Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk, recipient of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Literature, was the subject of criminal

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    When you think of the word, “censorship”, what do you think of? Secrecy? Morality? Oppression? Liberals often see censorship as a limit set by the government. A limit to suppress the capabilities of the human race. A limit that keeps a country’s citizens intact. A limit that keeps the people ignorant so that the powerful can stay powerful. But what if I told you that censorship isn’t what the liberals say it is? What if I told you that censorship is the thing that is keeping our country together

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