Censorship is limiting or eliminating information that the media show or tells the public. Limting information means limiting a particular media product only to a certain age group while eliminating means literally removing a particular part of a media product.
Through censorship, children can be protected from things that would adversly affect their mental growth, for example sex and violence. By eliminating certain information, it can help to maintain social and political peace as racist or scurrilous political remarks could lead to riots between races or wars between country if those remarks were to be published.
However censorship is not perfect. It does have it disadvantages. Since censorship eliminates certain information, this implies that the media may not report the complete truth. This may results in the public having some misunderstanding resulting in wrong judgement.
To conclude, i feel that censorship is necessary even though it may cause some misunderstanding because maintaining social and political peace is vital in a country's development.
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a rather shallow argument, Jun Peng. You could explore other issues which we alrd discussed in class.
Grade: C
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