Censorship Summary

Censorship: National, International Censorship is a practice that limits public access to materials, including printed text, photographs and art, music and video, or other multimedia, based on the val... Read more

Censorship "Censorship" is the suppression of speech or symbolic expression for reason of its message. Liberal Western constitutionalism has traditionally condemned censorship on both in... Read more

In the following essay, South African author Coetzee explores the influence of censorship on the psychological state and work of writers. From the early 1960s until about 1980, the Republic of Sout... Read more

In the following essay, Goodman discusses the process by which Burroughs's novel was seized by the U.S. Customs Service in 1959 and subsequently banned as an obscene work. With its descripti... Read more

In the excerpt below, Steinle examines the various reasons cited for withdrawing J. D. Salinger's novel The Catcher in the Rye from school district curricula in the 1950s through the 1980s. ... Read more

In the following essay, Kahf examines the historic problem of censorship and repression faced by writers in Syria. Is There a Syrian Literature? There is, of course, no such thing as Syrian literat... Read more

In the following essay, originally published in 1972, Webb provides a brief history of the journal Index on Censorship and the state of censorship around the world in the second half of the twentieth ... Read more

In the following polemical essay, Gordimer argues that South African censorship laws conspire with the apartheid government to both limit and silence writers' life experiences. South Africa ... Read more

In the following essay, Allen compares the religious and political censorship of Arabic literature to the censorship of Western literature, discussing the treatment of writers in Arabic-speaking count... Read more

In the following interview, conducted in 1972, British journalist and translator Scammel speaks with Joseph Brodsky, a Russian poet who was sentenced to hard labor by the Soviet government before bein... Read more

In the following essay, Mayo describes and analyzes the ways in which the U.S. occupying forces censored fiction and poetry by Japanese writers and how Japanese writers resisted and subverted attempts... Read more

Censorship Censorship is defined as the act, process or practice of examining and removing obscene, vulgar, and otherwise objectionable material from things we encounter every day. Whether it is on T... Read more

Censorship is defined as the act or practice of removing obscene, vulgar, and highly objectionable material from things we encounter every day. Whether it is on TV, in music, books, or on the Internet... Read more

Censorship in many countries including Canada is an official or legal way of filtering material exposed to the public. Censoring certain material is necessary in an environment where there is access ... Read more

Pro-Censoring the Obscene Most freedoms are taken for granted, because they always seem to be in effect. Censorship keeps freedom in check. There are some things that are not suitable for the entire ... Read more

Do you believe that the government or certain organizations have the right to censor and remove certain forms of media by their own beliefs or do you believe that these decisions should be left up to ... Read more

Do people have the right to read any and everything, or should there be certain restrictions? What are some effects of censorship on a society" I think that there should be some restrictions. Even t... Read more

Candice Fenton Music videos sometimes communicate distorted and dangerous messages. Do you think censorship is the answer? I do not. Music videos may portray messages parents do not want their childr... Read more

Book Burning/Censorship The practice of book burning is often carried out publicly and is usually motivated by moral, political or religious objections to the material. The destruction of books rep... Read more

"Censorship": why your breaking my rights "Congress shall make no law...abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press (U.S. Constitution)." Throughout the ages, censorship has shown up in various... Read more