Topic > Is Censorship Good or Bad for Our Society - 549

In the eyes of many people, censorship is considered bad for our society because it prevents us from knowing the truth about many things. But is blocking ourselves from things always a good result? I believe that censorship does both good and harm to our society. When we are prevented from knowing things because our government doesn't want us to know certain things, we will eventually know because of technology nowadays. People will come to certain websites to get things from us that should be censored, and if one person finds out about something, a lot of people will know about it because things spread very quickly. Censorship can be good for some things, like explicit lyrics on the radio or some very adult scenes on TV. I believe we should have censorship in some areas for certain ages, for example TV shows will have some scenes not intended for children. Television is something that everyone uses and you can't really control what is on at what time, so if you have kids watching a kids show one minute and the next minute they change the channel...