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这个题目也是偶的第二篇issue,到目前偶也只写了两篇issue,哎,不过我花的时间比你长多了。看看吧,给点意见
224. "Censorship is rarely, if ever, justified."
I strongly agree with the assertion that censorship is rarely, if ever, justified. Two aspects, the principles of censorship and execution of it in the reality, would lend strong support to this statement. Yet, the chaos of information in the modern society brings the necessity of censorship.
To begin with, the principles for censoring is rarely justified and objective. Who would establish the principles of censorship? Not the whole society of a nation, but the government. And more essentially, it is some several politicians who set down the principles for censoring. Common sense tells that almost every government only tells the public the doctrines which the government conforms to. Accordingly and naturally, the government would rule out the opposite speaking, ideas to the dogmas. So, we can often see that a painting exhibition in a museum was cancelled since only several items in the exhibition was suspected that it is likely to bring on some opposite ideas to the government. Also, the editor of a newspaper or magazine, who publishes some essays without censoring, has to abdicate with the pressure of government. This kind of actions go against the nature of democracy that every citizen has the right to embrace the freedom of speech and expression(as Franklin Roosevelt claimed it as the first freedom in his address of "The Four Freedoms").
Adding further support to the statement is that the execution of censorship is rarely justified in the reality. After the principle of censorship is established, how to censor and who would execute the tasks? Let us reconsider the example about the painting exhibition in a museum mentioned before. On the same painting, it is often likely that different people will hold different views. Consequently, whether or not it will pass the censoring fully depends on the person doing this job, exactly, which depends on the education, ideas, and even political or religious beliefs of individuals. How difficult or even impossible that the censorship based on this kind of execution of censorship is often justified!
However, with the advance of information and communication technology, various kinds of information and ideas are full of everywhere of society, some of which are common enemies of mankind, such as eroticism, violence and heresy and so on. We can get any information we want from the Internet, and also a child can easily get some videos full of violence from the Internet. Furthermore, I often get some garbage emails whose subjects is always about the ideas of a kind of heresy -"FaLunGong", which often leads to violence, killing others or even suicide and has been prohibited in China. It is necessary to sweep away all of this from our society, which is the very function and duty of censorship. Imagine that how terrible if a adolescent magazine is full of pictures about eroticism, violence, which can result in a increase of illegal actions and unharmoniousness of society.
As it stands, the censorship, indeed, is rarely, if ever, justified. But a censorship is very indispensable in the modern society. How to perfect the principles and the execution of censorship,
and consequently bring on a harmonious and healthy-atmosphere society, is the responsibility of the whole human being. |
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