Anti-cencorship

Title	Anti-cencorship
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Anti-cencorship

Anti-Censorship: For a long time, censorship has existed. In the
ancient Egyptian empire, nothing negative could be said
about the gods. When America was an English colony, if anyone
spoke out against the King of England, it was considered
treason.
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[Category]:
Social Issues
[Paper Title]:
Anti-Censorship
[Text]:
Anti-Censorship
For a long time, censorship has existed. In the ancient Egyptian empire,
nothing
negative could be said about the gods. When America was an English colony, if
anyone
spoke out against the King of England, it was considered treason. In the
pre-civil war
period, books like "Uncle Tom's Cabin" were banned in the south.
And even today,
censorship laws have been implemented on the internet. In all these cases ,it
did nothing
positive. The Egyptian empire collapsed, The United States had a revolution,
the Civil
War broke out, and pornography has spread even more across the internet. If
there is
nothing to gain with censorship, then schools shouldn't try to censor the
books we read.
Besides not working in the past, there are more reasons why books shouldn't
be
censored. First, if one can't read a book because it is censored, then he is
losing some of
his freedom. Imagine having to secretly get a copy of a book, just because
the school
deems it unfit. Also, how would the school decide if a book is safe to read.
If a teacher
finds a book to be trash, a student may the same book educational, and worth
reading. Not
only do the people reading the book lose freedom, but the writers lose the
freedom to
express what they are feeling. Some of the greatest pieces of writing have
come from the
heart, and if writers are worrying about how they are writing, then they
won't be worried
about what they are writing.
Many books that are part of American society could be banned because of their
content. If a book says a few curse words, then the school could say than it
can't be read
even if it teaches us an important lesson. Many books important to society
have local color
in them, and censorship takes away from the connotation if the local color is
taken out. A
lot of famous books wo...

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