Censorship in our society has remained as an controversial issue. While one population believe in liberty and freedom of material published, another have a more conservative adn traditional approach as to what is released into the eyes of the public.

As of today, politics and racial problems remained as one of the highly debatable issues worldwide. Therefore, censorship came about to removed all the materials that are unsuitable for viewing or perhaps as a threat to national security.

Impleting censorship to various media sources is a way a country like singapore choose to cover some important information from the public. Some might say this is unfair as a democratic country like singapore should allow the freedom of press and expression. Also, though the singapore government often boast about the freedom of speech they have given to the citizens by giving us Singaporeans "freedom" to convey our thoughts to the public at the speaker's corner. They do employ professionals to read through and edit the speech, censoring away all the anti government statements or insults before we are allowed to make the speech.

Likewise, sources with pornography,vulgarities and violent content is also always prone to censorships in Singapore. While the USA loosen their grip and allow the such explicit content to be easily available to the masses, Singapore as a traditional asian country with the majority still having a traditional conservative mindset, held back this freedom.

I feel that although singapore has implemented a lot of restrictions to what meet the eye of a singaporean, we must understand that singapore unlike the united states is a multi-racial country. Any insensitive racial comments said or published might caused instability in singapore like what had happened before our independance. However, i think to a certain extent we should expose the locals especially students to more information instead of keeping them shelted away from all the "bad stuff". Overly protected children will grow up to be naive, guillible and will not survive out in the competitive society.

One way to solve this to educate the children what is right from wrong instead of banning the such content completely from them as usually it will only arouse more curiosity and the chances of the child viewing it for fun and leisure will be higher as it will only be a matter of time one will have the chance to get into contact with such contents.

Another example is Japan. The Japanese government tries to cover up all the cruel acts the Japanese soldiers did during the Japanese occupation by censoring all the books that has got to do with the war and only allowing textbooks to published the heroic acts the Japanese soldiers did. This led to a generation of people who thinks what their ancestors did is right. Will this then led to a world war four or world war five since the younger generation only get to see the Japanese side of the story that they are heros that are coherced by other nations into war?

This is a negative showcase of censorship as although Japan have the right to tell their citizens what they want to, they should not blindfold their people by putting up false information that may trigger anger in another generation that may want to revenge their forefathers and probably start another war.

Overall, i feel that censorship as a whole is very neccessary to our society but it is what the country should censor adn expose to the public which is important to the growth adn well being of a nation.


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