Censorship
Written on April 26, 2007 – 10:42 am | by shylaa
Our blogging assignment for this weekend was to write a post about censorship. Recently, our class posted al of your finished iTL videos. Two of my classmates had the topic of Terrorism. This is what leads our classroom, into the idea of censorship. Mr.Fisher had a lot of trouble deciding weather or not to censor the terrorism video. In the end he decided he had to.
I think Mr.Fisher was right in censoring the video. He made a difficult decision, but when it comes down to your audience, you have to do something that will repect them.
Censorship is respect for others. There is different censorship laws in different countries. For instance, in Canada, if you blog, you are allowed speaking your mind about the government, if you don’t like the people in our government . But, you are not allowed threats towards other people. You can say as much as you want about disliking someone, but you cannot write threats. Compared to in Japan or China, I can’t remeber which one, you can’t state ideas like that. You can’t say how much you dislike the government and their laws. People censor things like Nudity, Foul Language, and other inapropriate things that could offend or disrespect other people.
The song “Let’s get it started” by the Black Eyed Peas, has been edited. The original song title was something very similar. This song was censored for respect is also had bad language.
The song “Safe in New York City” by AC/DC has been censored since September, 11, 2001. The day of 9/11. They banned it because they think it would remind people of this horrible event. There is a lot of songs banned since 9/11. Here are some.
System of a Down- Chop Suey!
Metallica-Enter Sandman
Metallica-Highway to Hell
Here is a link of all the songs.
Do you think this is right? Maybe it is for some of the songs, but some have nothing to do with 9/11. What do you think?
One Response to “Censorship”
By c.m. on Sep 13, 2007 | Reply
Hello, I enjoyed reading your blog entries for your class so far. One thing in this post that caught my attention was that a list of songs banned after 9/11 sounded a little bit “fishy.” I want to point out that the type of censorship people are most worried about is government censorship. Is your teacher preventing others from seeing a video about terrorism the same as if the government sends out an announcement that no teachers may show this video about terrorism?
This is getting to the point about that banned song list. The song list was allegedly created by Clear Channel, an enormous radio conglomerate in North America. Is this the same as a government saying its citizens can’t handle certain songs and not allowing people to play them publicly? I am asking the question because I think it is important to think about, not because I have the right answer. However, this little point is very important in your story. Finally, that list sounds very long and includes songs that don’t seem to have much to do with 9/11. You mention this in your post too. A little internet digging suggests that maybe this was a false story in the first place: http://www.guardian.co.uk/wtccrash/story/0,1300,555061,00.html
In a later post you mention the difference between Mr. Fisher’s research from books and the availability of information on the internet. If something sounds a little funny, we have to search extra carefully to verify whether it is true or not. Such is the internet world!
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