Censorship

Censorship has become a complicated and heated issue within the United States over the past couple of decades. The government seems to only want to restrict the freedom of speech and the majority of the populace appears to allow for this to happen. However, what started as a small growing number of people are starting to take notice to this injustice and are speaking out against the governments control and censorship. The government claims they are doing this for the good of the country and in some aspects that does make sense. For example, like how new stations during the first golf war, “Desert Storm”, were reporting things before they happen. In that aspect censorship does make sense. Yet, when the government is censoring swear words on the Howard Stern Show and bleeping out ever other sentence due to inappropriate material. In that aspect the government is overstepping its boundaries.
The aspect of censorship which I will be addressing is that of media censorship and the control of the FCC over TV and Radio stations. I intend to show the borders which the government is overstepping in order to impose their restrictions. For example, like how the government stuck in a freedom of speech barrier within the Patriot Act which was designed after the events of September 11th. This Acts purpose was to protect the United States, not restrict their freedom of speech. Through evidence similar to this I will prove and convince my audience that the government’s restrictions over the media are overly sensitive.