C ENSORSHIP By Alex Reyes

C ENSORSHIP T OPICS Introduction Overview Positives Criticisms Opinion Piece

C ENSORSHIP Suppression of information for different rationales Moral Military Political Corporate Religious Purpose is to protect 3 basic social institutions Family Church State Artistic, intellectual, religious, political, public, and personal life all liable for censorship

R ATIONALES FOR C ENSORSHIP Moral Obscenities and other equally offensive things Military Civil Censorship Suppression of civilian communication in a given area Prisoner of War Censorship Suppression of incoming/outgoing communications for people being held by armed forces Field Press Censorship Suppression of information under Military jurisdiction intended for civilians Armed Forces Censorship Suppression of incoming/outgoing personal communications for people under Military jurisdiction

R ATIONALES FOR C ENSORSHIP Political Suppressing or distorting inconvenient information that could lead to dissent from the general public Corporate Suppressing or distorting inconvenient information that could lead to a tainted image or profits Religious Suppression of information that could be objectionable or inconvenient for a specific faith

H ISTORY OF C ENSORSHIP Plato Argued that art should be subservient to morality Art that could not strengthen morality should be banned Allowing such art to exist should be considered crime (heresy) Rome Only high class citizens had right to free speech Public prosecution often occurred All Roman citizens had to plead loyalty to the emperor Resistance punishable by death

H ISTORY OF C ENSORSHIP Roman Catholic Church Banned books that opposed orthodox beliefs and morals 18 th Century Greater emphasis on basic human rights