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Censorship Is A Variety Of Things From Yelling Fire In A Crowded Theater To Showing Sexual
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Censorship Is A Variety Of Things From Yelling Fire In A Crowded Theater To Showing Sexual |
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462 |
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Censorship is a variety of things from yelling fire in a crowded theater to showing sexual
intercourse on television. These things aren’t all either, there are millions of things we use
or see every day that are censored for a reason. The reason can be many but the three
most important reasons are for an adult or child’s wellbeing, for the decency of our society
and for privacy of each other. All of these things are censored because our lives are
influenced by these reasons in one way or another. This will tell you that with out
censorship we would live in a world so dirty and irresponsible so indecent and shameful
that it could not exist. We pretty much ignore the growth in violence and sexual abuse in
our movies and on television. Have they gone away? According to researchers at the
University of Pennsylvania, by the time an average child leaves high school, he or she will
have watched the happening of 18,000 murders on television. Prime time says the National
Coalition on Television Violence, is filled with degrading sexual material and incidents
^where violence is strongly glamorized or used to excite.^ There have been 85 major
studies of the effects of such violence on children. Eighty-four of the eighty- five
concluded that it caused an increase in all manner of aggressive behavior, up to and
including homicide. What happened to the one study that disagreed? Well, they were paid
off by the
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