Censorship assignment

Q1-I understood of censorship before the discussion is that a government control public communication in society. For example, a government controls speech, book, music, art, television, movie, and radio. Moreover, I thought a totalitarian government is a typical example of censorship. Because a totalitarian government is one that tries to control every aspect of life: how people spend every minute of their time even in private, who they can associate with, what they are allowed to say. Totalitarian government even tries to control what people think, and what they believe. Likewise, George Orwell’s ‘1984’ show a totalitarian. For example, ‘BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU’ means that the government is watching the citizen in ‘1984’. In addition, I thought that censorship has strength and weaknesses. In strength part, if a government controls cigarette and alcohol, citizen will be protected. In weaknesses part, each person has his or her own opinion; however, a government does not want to citizen talk about harmful and sensitive story to the government. Thus, sometimes, censorship is an exercise in power. A government is not trying to control people’s mind for some other purpose. A government just wants to exercise total power over people’s minds.

Q2-I did not change my idea about censorship through the in class discussion. Because the discussion was similar with my idea. However, I add some idea about censorship. I just thought social censorship; however, I started think about individual censorship like family censorship.