No, why would I be?

Hell no! I'm against censorship, very against censorship. In fact I typed this article on it; Censorship is probably my favorite thing to debate about. So I wanted to type an article about the issue.

For one it's super annoying. The obnoxious beeping mid-verse in some songs is really irksome to listen too. Small pauses aren't as bad, but still. Censorship can really ruin a good song. As for TV I understand it more with censoring anatomy should children be watching (I'll address that in a minute) but censoring the finger or words that characters/people say on TV follows the same thing as above the bleeping is annoying and the finger, I personally don't take offense to it.

About the whole children could be watching argument. All I can say is parents should be watching their kid. If they want to be overly sensitive they should be the ones sheltering their kid, not the government. I think it's kind of annoying that because a handful of people are sensitive that everyone loses their ability to decide for themselves what they want to watch.Why should we have to be sheltered because some people don't want their kids exposed to certain concepts but are too lazy to shelter them themselves. Now I (if I was a mother) wouldn't go out of my way to point boob scenes out to my kid but I wouldn't freak out if the kid saw it either. Odds are the kid will turn away if he/she doesn't like it anyhow.

Which leads to the next point. If you really think about it; the more you hide something from a kid the more he/she gets curious. He/she will go out of his/her way to see what you're trying to keep her from seeing. Now if you just let them look, as I said they'd probably be like 'eeewww' and turn away like a lot of kids do with kissing scenes. That's what happened with my brother.
This is more of a personal preference (and I'm not trying to tell anyone how to raise kids) but I think kids should be exposed to it. Better to show them while they are under your watch and while you are able to teach them what's wrong and right than to have them hear it the hard way. Most things aren't trying to promote racism and what not; for example Mark Twain's Huck Finn. The book was banned for its excessive use of racial slurs. As most know Twain is a literary satirist; he was not promoting racism he was mocking it, demoting it.

Of course there's also the fact that we all have the right to choose what we want to watch or listen too. Call me weird, but I watch a show called Davinci's Deamos, there are lots of boob shots and sex scenes, it's barely censored, and I almost appreciate it. Not because I'm looking to see boobs but because they had the guts to do it. And because it was more historically accurate. If I have my facts right nudity was culturally acceptable in Rome (where the show takes place) and the fact that they didn't censor it made it more legit. Anyhow, back to the point; if I wanna watch a show with boobies I should be able to, I'm an adult and I don't feel like TV should be censored. I remember watching HP and the Deathly Hallows and being so mad when they cut short Hermione's torture scene because it was too bloody... I mean darn it! I wanted to see my Bellatrix kicking muggle butt! On top of that I have the right to listen to an uncensored and less annoying versions of ASAP's fuckin' problem. It gets to the point where they censor out so much they might as well not even bother airing the song, I mean the word fuck is in the title and is clearly going to be in the main verse, so why do they even bother. Cuss censorship is the worst. I'm not one to cuss left and right, but the words are out there, they exist my 'sensitive' 'innocent' 19 year old ears are going to hear them anyways. And what always got me was how you can say damn and hell and some times shit and even ass on tv but gosh forbid if you say fuck, you're in for it. And it's not like bleeping it out makes it disappear, in fact it becomes more of a fill in the blank game. You know it's there. Another thing that got me was boob censorship you can pretty much expose the entire breast but when the nipple is shown there's a problem. It doesn't make sense; if you're gonna censor it you might as well censor all of it and if you're not then that's just it, you're not.

On the other end; music artists and tv/movie directors have the right to say what they want to. If I were a singer I would like to sing about what I want without getting sued or being forced to have parts of my songs tweeked beyond belief.

And then there's the fact that I, and probably most people, hear worse in halls of my high school. I learned more 'sex terms' from over hearing classmates discuss 'the fun they had last night' than on any TV show or in any song. In fact I probably wouldn't even know half of what the terms said in the song meant had I not heard them from classmates. Point is kids are gonna hear the stuff eventually so why keep them sheltered. It's better to teach them yourself and teach them how to handle it maturely than to let them hear it on their own and decide to handle them immaturely.

Lastly is the fact that censorship may also censor things that raise awareness. For instance songs about shootings and death and what not can help bring real world problems into the eye of the public that would've otherwise been ignored. And songs about homosexuality can possibly open the mind to those types of relationships. I remember watching Sailor Moon as a kid; Neptune and Uranus (who looked like a male) were two women in a relationship. But the version I saw had Uranus as a male and the two were just cousins. I didn't find out about the true and original nature of the characters until years later (at the age of 13) I re-watched the Japanese version. I was mad that they changed it like that. I don't see anything wrong with homosexuality.

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I think some people use freedom of speech to be incredibly rude and tactless though.

Totally agree with Book-Freak.

I'm all for freedom of speech however I completely despise people that abuse freedom of speech.

never have been, never will be against freedom of speech...

@Pearlxashxdawn :P

@Book-Freak Can't disagree there.

^lol :D Just kidding Zannie XD tho I somewhat agree with you on censorship...