Declaration

For my concept folio I chose the concept of censorship. Censorship is a complete contradiction to one of the things that makes America such a great country; freedom of speech. The amendment of freedom of speech states that “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.” These are the exact words used by our government in the late 1700’s. But throughout history they have done the exact opposite of what they said. Movies, books, music, thoughts, ideas, and literature are all things that have fallen victims to censorship. To me censorship is a way of hiding the truth about certain things that should be common knowledge to the people of our country. Everyday there are people out there trying to ban and censor things from Americans, things that as an American you have the right to view. Allow everyone knows this nothing is done to stop it. The only good point I can see from the other side of this argument is the fact that profanity and sexually explicit material shouldn’t be exposed to young children without their parental permission. But telling teenagers and young adults who are mature enough to choose what they want to listen to is completely wrong and unjust. The key word here is choice. As stated earlier, the thing that makes this country truly great is the idea that we have the right to listen to whatever we choose we want to listen to, not what a censor thinks you should be exposed to.