censorship can never be justified? Do you agree

There are two words that need to be defined-- censorship and justified. Censorship is a barrier or restriction that are imposed to prevent undesirable information or ideas to be spread to the public. This is usually done by the government of the society or the higher authorites of the society. Justifed means whether is morally right and accepted by the majorities of the people in the communtiy. I feel that censorship is very important as without censorship, all sort of information and articles will reach the public. And some articles and information may be untrueful or racial. this might result in riots, being unfair to the targeted people as the fact reported might not be the truth, creating a chaos in the community. Thus the government come in use filter method to prevent such thing to occur in our life.

I agree that there is a need for censorship but it is not justifed. Firstly, the government are the one setting the limits and restriction of the censorship. But who will be the watchdog, taking care and checking on them to prevent the abuse of power? There is no one actually. With great power in hand, there is a chance that abuse of power will be present-- information showing the ineffectiveness and inefficiency of the governement will not have a chance to surface to the public.

And the most important thing is that the government is only a minority of the whole community. Whether the norm like the idea of censorship is at grey area. this is a open society with everyone are equal with no one more superior than others. Thus freedom of speech and freedom of flow of ideas should be allowed. But if the information is damaging to the community, then censorship will have to stand in to prevent chaos in the community.

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