However, media censorship may be the only true way to protect our thoughts and mannerism. There are dispute as to whether censorship is good or bad. Nowadays, even entertainment materials are the victims of media censorship. In the internet, pornographic photos and video clips are widespread. So, the ministry of information had to trim them according to the rate of exposure and movies that are shown in cinemas are rated according to their contents too.
There are many reasons to worry about it. This social media is hurting our society in such way that it causing harm to one’s privacy, it disseminates misinformation, and effect on student’s grade. It is clear that social media is hurting our society by putting one’s privacy and security at risk. In the article “Teens Privacy Is Threatened by Social Networking” author Peter Bazalgette said, “Can you truly delete entries from social networking sites with the confidence they no longer exist on a server somewhere? You cannot” (Bazalgette p.1).
On 31 December 2007, Stephen Conroy announced the Federal Government's intention to introduce an ISP-based filter to censor "inappropriate material" from the Internet (mainly child abuse and terrorism). In this announcement he also stated that adults could opt out of the filter to receive an uncensored internet. The filter itself is flawed, so is met with strong opposition. Banning illegal content like child abuse and terrorism is inarguably a good thing. I welcome it.
The degradation of dialect reveals how it is almost entirely impossible to object to the Party’s core beliefs. Through the protagonist character of Winston Smith, the importance of individualism is advocated through critical thinking. Firstly, the text illustrates how language and power can be used as a mechanism of control by discouraging an individual from expressing their true emotion. The controlled language, Newspeak, was created by the totalitarian state as a tool of power, its sole purpose being to restrict the people’s understanding of the real world. The gradually declining dialect limits the ideas that individuals have the potential of formulating and expressing, promoting a narrowing of thoughts and awareness to their system of control.
The first slogan we shall discuss is ‘Freedom is slavery.’ Ingle (1993: 105) stresses how Orwell places importance on individual privacy by portraying a society which has sacrificed its privacy and individualism to the state in return for security. Telescreen surveillance is an intrusion of citizens’ private lives as it instils a sense of paranoia of being watched. Facial gestures that suggest abnormality is a punishable offense, which in Newspeak is called facecrime. As found in the novel; “It was terribly dangerous to let your thoughts wander when you were in any public place or within range of a telescreen.” (Part 1, Chapter 5). The issue of surveillance seems more relevant in today’s world then it was during Orwell’s time.
For government as a representative of the public rights and the power of a country while owning and operating the Internet, has the absolute responsibility to censor the Internet so as to protect its own citizens from harmful and false information. Thus Internet censorship was invented and divided into three main parts, which are blocking, filtering and protecting, pornography and hate literature for examples, are commonly used to lure Internet surfers’ attention and to generate profits by spreading harmful and sexual messages. In this case, the Internet censorship provides a protection to the users through blocking specific Internet Protocol (IP) addresses and filtering sensitive keywords regardless of the domain name specified in the Uniform Resource Locator (URL). As can be seen, technical censorship can be devised into more sections under the Internet content as: Internet Protocol (IP) address blocking, Domain name system (DNS) filtering and redirection, Uniform Resource Locator filtering, Packet filtering, Connection reset, Network disconnection, Portal censorship and search result
citizens are entitled to there are always exemptions. This would be a case to case basis and would all depend on the circumstances of each case to discreatly say what information may have been obtained to harm someone. As far as blaming the author, we all have the right to freedom of speech but when it comes to the “how-to” manuals, there should be some type of limitations on what can be published and what can’t. We will never be able to control the many methods of communications that have been and will be sent in place for those who choose to use the internet. This information can be passed on through social websites, blogs, etc.
Popular Torture Viewer discretion is advised. In Anne-Marie Cusacs article “Watching Torture in Prime Time” she discloses the truth behind Fox Channel’s hit show “24” and it’s use of torture as method of entertainment. The media has become a huge part of our lives for a source of learning, entertainment and communication. Popular media needs to be limited to the context, since much of the information it is unreliable. Exposing violence in the media teaches bad morals and is not supported by the greater good of society.
Technology is moving and advancing very fast and any attempt to curtail or limit accessibility only serves as a fuel to move faster in order to circumvent any such internet roadblocks. The bill also allows the persecution of any one who assists and provides a way to bypass the system, but this will simply drive the cyberworld to find more obscure means to fight for their freedom to free media and information. The internet community, which includes us and everyone else in the world, sees this as a curtailment of freedom of expression and the repression of creativity rather than being its protector. Mark Lemley, David S. Levine, & David G. Post in their article Don't Break the Internet called SOPA "not only [a violation of] basic principles of due process by depriving persons of property without a fair hearing and a reasonable opportunity to be heard, it also constitutes an unconstitutional abridgement of the freedom of speech protected by the First Amendment". Many fear that this could cripple internet technology innovation as well as
This is exactly what the totalitarian government, in Bradbury’s Novel, wants for their mindless society. The more addicted people become to technology, the less people will socialize and care about one another. Along with dehumanizing society, technology aids in the total government control which creates a dangerous future for mankind. One of the key factors in this futuristic government’s grasp on society is the extensive amount of propaganda and