In some cultures censorship is used to shelter the community from information that leaders find unacceptable.
A main form of censorship in the Unites States occurs in the media. Citizens look to the news stations to provide accurate information about topics taking place in their community, state, country, and around the world. News stations have the ability to censor information they think should be kept for the public and censor materials to depict a certain ideas. The media has the ability to create any image they want by the information they produce and the way they give information. Media has the ability to suppress the minority and viewers who look to them for information. The US Military is also censoring the media by not allowing pictures from Afghanistan to be taken and published. Many believe this is being done to control what messages of the war are being conveyed.
China is another country where censorship is used to suppress the minorities with no voices. In China, the internet is censored, blocking viewers from any pages containing information about the Dalai Lama, the 1989 crackdown on Tiananmen Square protesters, Falun Gong, the banned spiritual movement, and other Internet sites. Sites such as Facebook and Twitter are also banned in China and other websites are required to have employees who constantly monitor sites users are viewing. The Chinese Government has taken over the internet and controls what the population has the right to view. The government has taken all rights the Chinese citizens have away, forcing them to only have access to information the government approves of, forcing the government’s communist opinions on everyone.
North Korea is the number one country censored. The government is in control of radio, television, and newspapers where the radio and televisions frequencies are monitored by government officials. “North Korea has wedded the traditional Confucian ideal of social order to the Stalinist model of an authoritarian communist state to create the world’s deepest information void.” While there is a great amount of poverty in North Korea, nobody knows about it because that information is not to be shared with citizens so many do not know what its actually going on in their own country.
Countries leaders use censorship to brainwash the population and force their beliefs on everyone. If they only allow certain information to the public, then the public only knows what they are told. Leaders won’t total power and to do so, they believe they must create a dictatorship and control what the public knows about their own country and current events from the country as well. There’s a mindset of “what they don’t know can’t entice them to leave or rebel”. The population becomes the minority and is forced to conform to the government and their rules.
A main form of censorship in the Unites States occurs in the media. Citizens look to the news stations to provide accurate information about topics taking place in their community, state, country, and around the world. News stations have the ability to censor information they think should be kept for the public and censor materials to depict a certain ideas. The media has the ability to create any image they want by the information they produce and the way they give information. Media has the ability to suppress the minority and viewers who look to them for information. The US Military is also censoring the media by not allowing pictures from Afghanistan to be taken and published. Many believe this is being done to control what messages of the war are being conveyed.
China is another country where censorship is used to suppress the minorities with no voices. In China, the internet is censored, blocking viewers from any pages containing information about the Dalai Lama, the 1989 crackdown on Tiananmen Square protesters, Falun Gong, the banned spiritual movement, and other Internet sites. Sites such as Facebook and Twitter are also banned in China and other websites are required to have employees who constantly monitor sites users are viewing. The Chinese Government has taken over the internet and controls what the population has the right to view. The government has taken all rights the Chinese citizens have away, forcing them to only have access to information the government approves of, forcing the government’s communist opinions on everyone.
North Korea is the number one country censored. The government is in control of radio, television, and newspapers where the radio and televisions frequencies are monitored by government officials. “North Korea has wedded the traditional Confucian ideal of social order to the Stalinist model of an authoritarian communist state to create the world’s deepest information void.” While there is a great amount of poverty in North Korea, nobody knows about it because that information is not to be shared with citizens so many do not know what its actually going on in their own country.
Countries leaders use censorship to brainwash the population and force their beliefs on everyone. If they only allow certain information to the public, then the public only knows what they are told. Leaders won’t total power and to do so, they believe they must create a dictatorship and control what the public knows about their own country and current events from the country as well. There’s a mindset of “what they don’t know can’t entice them to leave or rebel”. The population becomes the minority and is forced to conform to the government and their rules.
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georgejrotc. " U.S. military censoring the media? - YouTube ." YouTube - Broadcast Yourself. . N.p., n.d. Web. 30 Nov. 2011. <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7tV5tAWwKM>.
"Internet Censorship in China - Breaking World Internet Censorship News - The New York Times." Times Topics - The New York Times. N.p., 22 Mar. 2010. Web. 29 Nov. 2011. <http://topics.nytimes.com/topics/news/international
"Redirect Notice." Google. N.p., n.d. Web. 30 Nov. 2011. <http://www.google.com/imgres?q=Censorship&hl=en&gbv=2&biw=1191&bih=445&tbm=isch&tbnid=6L71OJuj95dwsM:&imgrefurl=http://freakyts.com/Politics2.aspx&docid=9TVGJ2vDYeS4NM&imgurl=http://freakyts.com/images/government%252520censorship%252520protecting%252520you%252520from%252520reality.jpg&w=640&h=489&ei=YmrWTpdPiqywAse8gboP
