题目:“In some countries,television and radio programs are carefully censored for offensive language and behavior. In other countries, there is little or no censorship.”In your view, to what extent should government or any other group be able to censor television or radio programs? Explain, giving relevant reasons and/or examples to support your position.
With the development of technologies and globalization nowadays, television programs both from the gross market and from abroad have taken most of people’s recreational times. In some countries there is a censorship for improper language which may bring awful influence to people, however in some other countries there is little of no such censorship protecting people from being influenced. In my view, some offensive language and behavior indeed should be censored carefully at a strict standard.
In the first place, since television and radio programs have large influence power on our daily speaking and activities, especially on children who are easy to imitate what they have learnt from what they have touched. Children are too young to tell what is right so that the only way for them to learn more about the world and to grow up is to imitate what they have learnt from their daily life.
In the second place, evil programs not only hurt children but also do harm to the adults and the whole society for they may cause some immoral and unsteady social problems. Many people may say that what are shown on television and radio programs are just picked out from our life, which in turn suggests that what we’ve practiced in our daily life mostly are learnt from television and radio programs. Such mutual effect forces the government to strictly censor what might be exposed to people on the television and radio programs.
However people opposed to the censorship of television and radio programs may argue that a freely expression of all kinds of language and behavior shows democracy in our society. However in my assessment, a democracy society based on immoral and evil will not be safe and happy, and will finally lead to a fade out to a country.
In sum, I suppose a restriction on the offensive language and behavior that are shown on television and radio programs is valuable and worthwhile, not only for the individuals in the society but also for a country as a whole.