Censorship in India, according to me is an eyewash. It is a method of a system to prove to its people that it has an eye on what’s going on. Nothing other than that! Else, why would a system ban advertising of tobacco or alcohol on television and not ban it from being manufactured or sold in the market? Why would a system shut its eye to surrogate advertising of the much banned products through other media like events, sports etc eople find loopholes in law, seek outlets or else go about their business illegally and the very system perpetrating warped values and morality is left with no alternative but to turn a blind eye to it.

The most common examples of book censorship are in schools and public libraries, and all those examples are most often involving children’s literature. Political groups attempt to remove books from library shelves because those books use ‘naughty’ words, do not have happy endings… or because they have too many rainbows. Rainbows are considered a sign of ‘New Age’ religiosity. Little Red Riding Hood was the 24th most banned book in the early 90’s mostly because she had a bottle of wine in her basket. Many organizations demanded a non-alcohol Little Red.

They were successful sometimes in their efforts, by the way. ” Did you ever hear anyone say, ‘That work had better be banned because I might read it and it might be very damaging to me’? ”  Fire Elizabeth Eyes wide shut Blocking internet telephones to certain sites because they were being used toto host “obnoxious and sexually-explicit material and unacceptable language’,  Let parents decide Officials misusing the services Who determines what is pornography and what is art? The term censor is derived from the Latin word, census meaning to assess.

Censoring students and censoring what students can read, view, or watch disrupts the educational cycle and breeds a definite conflict. Censorship would be more widely accepted if reasoning existed as to why censoring the material occurred in the first place. Any concept or idea becomes more valid if the rationale is understood. ” The equation is simple: Those who have power get to censor, and those who lack power get silenced. If you find yourself in a position to demand and get censorship, you can be sure you are among those who have the power, and you are acting to oppress others..

Censorship is when a work of art expressing an idea which does not fall under current convention is seized, cut up, withdrawn, impounded, ignored, maligned, or otherwise made inaccessible to its audience. 2. Censorship is when the “thought police” -whether chauvinist, fundamentalist, militant, rightist, leftist, conservative, or extremist- go about their business of silencing. 3. Censorship is not just about keeping an audience from reading, it is about keeping a writer from writing. 1.

And in September of 1996, the Hayward Gallary invited the police to approve of the content of their showing of Robert Mapplethorpe’s photos. The cops instantly seized on his image of a young girl, “Rosie”, and declared it child porn. Rosie herself, now the proprieter of a cafe in West London, expressed dismay that this innocent picture taken of her as a child could be seen by prurient-minded police as pornographic. Indeed. The anti-child porn crowd seems unable to look at images of children without seeing pornography; they have sexualized kids to such an extent that the very idea of an innocent image no longer exists.

Censorship of pictures involving nudity Who defines what nudity is? The first is government censorship, where writers or publishers are imprisoned or killed for their actions. The second type, as outlined by Munsch, is local schools and libraries censorship. In schools, censorship occurs whenever groups or individuals, attempt to prevent students from reading, hearing, or seeing something or someone because they believe that such exposure will be harmful to the students.

399 B. C.: Socrates accused “firstly, of denying the gods recognized by the State and introducing new divinities, and secondly of corrupting the young”. Found guilty, he was condemned to death. Accounts of the events in Xenephon’s “Memorabilia” and Plato’s “Apology”. The western history of censorship is said to begin here. Shivaji’s book: mentality is The core of the emergence of the new form of social censorship has only one watchword: “You cannot read what we do not like even if we have not read it” Walmart decides not to sell music-affects the sales .

Bandit queen  Satanic verses  Truth, lies and a little malice  I cant get no satisfaction  Puff the magic dragon  elvis A newspaper that refuses to run commentary the publisher disagrees with, or a lecture hall that refuses to rent itself out to a particular speaker, a mother not allowing her child to watch cartoons, the army not disclosing actual details of the war—are these acceptable forms of censorship? Can anyone be justified in censoring individual works of wither literature, art, music which have been prepared by others? Does society need a moral police?