Censorship

By: Salvador Valencia

What is Censorship?

• Limits on Media• What censorship was originally intended for– Profanity– Indecency

The FCC

• Who?– Federal Communications Commission– Regulators– Creates and enforces bounds

So what’s the PROBLEM??

• Is censorship doing it’s job?– Public Accessibility

• Contributing to the Problem at hand– Howard Stern

Why we need it

• Affecting Youth• What they see– Obscenity

• What they hear– Profanity

• Should we care?

What’s Happened?

Just another reason why

• The lack of Censorship–Violence, Sexual violence – Audience: Victims of previous crimes

Social media has become a problem

Other countries and censorship

• China, Afghanistan and many more around the world

• Banning several of the following:– Books– Certain internet access– Television shows

Video

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPAvg6CU6sI

Works Cited• Fisher, Randy D., Ida J. Cook, and Edwin C. Shirkey. "Correlates of Support for Censorship of

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