Why is censorship so strict in America?
151169
The only censorship that is taking place involved with national security, even then the NSA phone trapping story broke, if there was cenorship the Abu Grahib pictures never would have seen the light of day.\n\nThe Supreme Court has said that obcenity is not protected speech.  Also when it comes to public safety you can't yell fire in a movie theater without a fire because of the possibility of panic.\n\nAccording the FCC, which was founded under FDR the air waves are public domain, and the media is expected to maintain societal norms.
81730
Europe says it is, but practically it is not. UK has a strong censorship, so do Austria and Germany. In these countries many journalists have been sent to jail for things they've said or published (Irving is only the latest issue). Italy and Belgium too have laws that frown upon certain subject that can be released in the media, while in other countries (although there's no law) various coercions are imposed on the press by means of media trusts (media trusts owners are subjected to heavy pressure to allow or dissalow publication of articles on certain issues).\nThe US goes against free speech too (the number of jailed press members imprisoned for articles related to the US invasion of Iraq or US violations of human right isn't exately small).
576367
not only are we censored, but the feds listen in on our phone calls, and then try to arrest us if we talk bad about the government. It is a direct violation of the 1st ammendment, but no one in the government cares.
901078
Government censorship is a constitutional violation. The protections in the constitution only apply to govt (not private) action.\n\nIf you're talking about Yahoo, that's a private forum. And private forums are subject to whatever internal rules and policies they choose to adopt. Yahoo has guidelines that you argee to follow as a condition of using this private service.\n\nI agree with your core concept -- people need to stop being so irrationally sensitive, and allow broad discussions. I don't agree with personal attacks, because they are largely pointless, but rarely is a general comment actually going to be a personal attack.\n\nThat being said, again this is a private forum, with established rules.
1037423
Censorship is a dirty word, I do think there is such a thing as polite, but we in everyday life are bombarded by mfer this and f that, just turn on HBO or Cinamax, things that go on every afternoon on my tv are soft porn. I find it humorous that we all do the things that we censor ourselves with, I sh*t every morning, I fcuk every night. but I do not want you to pass the fcuking salt at the dinner table. It is really hard to understand why one thing is considered dirty and the same thing is ok. If you get it all figured out let me know.
792376
I LOVE AMERICA. NEO CON CENSORSHIP IS RAMPANT
66528
Here in the USA, we have based our sociatal rights and wrongs on a christianic/judiac system of morals. In that, anything of a sexual nature is wrong, whereas things of violence can pertain to you following the precepts of your faith. whether its being ready to die for your beliefs or more likely, to kill for them. In the eastern/asian systems, violence is wrong, and things of a sexual nature are much more highly tolerated. Take japan, you can very easily have nudity in a pg, but much of any violence raises it to an R. its also historicaly bases as well. As americans we have not had any personal access to real violence. whereas in japan they literaly had war on their mainland within the last generation. memories of things like that can last.
690639
CENSORSHIP of the media is one more way to shape the country's opinions in favour of our leader's political tendencies.\nthey want to allow us to believe there is no big problem in Iraq, we do not see men who have died,\nin the start of war they used to put up on the t.v. pictures of serviceman, after they had died to Honor them.\nit was stopped after distention about this armed conflict broke out.\nwhy? numbers are harder to place on real people than the faces of the dead.\nthat is one instance where our media is being censored to bend public opinion.\nso it goes\nit may not be right, \nbut it looks like our leaders are going by the old saying\n"might makes right"\nif your rich enough/ in this country they'll do what they want and never try to correct the problem. i have never heard prz admit to mistake yet as his responsibility.
226021
On one hand, I agree there is too much censorship in the world. What happened after Janet Jackson's "wardrobe malfunction" was ridiculous. We cannot pretend that people do not have private parts, or do not have sex. \n\nOn the other hand, I think that the entertainment industry goes way too far with graphic violence. I think that it does promote such behaviour, and that the industry does it only to boost profits. There is no thought about being socially responsible. Censorship there is necessary, I think. \n\nBTW, I think it's wrong to cuss, not because of the effect on the younger generation, but because it's just more pleasant when people do not curse. (I cuss all the time, of course).
706894
The American education system is basically censored to ensure that you are taught ONLY what mainstream academia thinks you should be learning. This is a nonsense. There are possibly 100+ alternatives in every discipline which are entitled to a legitimate platform in the halls of learning. Topics of value which are being  suppressed. especially regarding History and Physics. American students will eventually become intellectually irrelevant the way the system is currently grooming them. It`s absurd for the education overlords to believe this can continue. A nation of closed minded robots is not the way foreward.
590401
I don't know but I'm intrigued to see that a perfectly acceptable word in the United Kingdom is censored in the United States.
1104272
doesn't it suck that you have to *** out the word ***** ?  it's such a beautiful word, censorship sucks!
87325
True, censorship is an attempt to stop the transmission of information to society, but by doing that I think it shows the world that ideas can be soooo powerful that people fear them and want to stop their spread.  That should show people how important thought and the development of ideas is.  It should show people that ideas have the power to change the world.  This should make people want to know and want to think.  Does this happen?  I don’t know, but that is what it does to me and what it should do!
1059396
Move to a country where censorship is permissable.\nIf you get to remove from the PUBLIC library what YOU find objectionable, then I get to remove what offends ME, and so does the next guy, before long, you have an empty library.
362964
Three reasons:  1) China filters out American content.  2) They don't want to admit they received American content.  3)  How come what doesn't get through?
719737
Well, it depends.... are you in high school or college? And is the school private or public? \n\nI'm a graduated journalist, with a BA in International Comm. I studied this stuff and it gets tricky.\n\nBottom line: if you are in high school and are facing censorship issues, you're out of luck. But if you are in college and are told you can't publish something... you have a chance to fight it.\n\nContact me for more details...
1049019
It's tolerance gone astray.\nI don't care about being PC, but, if you take a look around the internet, it's not only the government who is obsessed, private citizens are also stomping out anything that might even remotely offend anyone, anywhere.\n\nIf you take that into consideration, it's an attempt at taking away our right to free speech.