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Civil Liberties, Human Rights, and Censorship By: Emmanuel Chavez, Izamar Arranda, Lissette Cilia, Samantha Acosta, Johnathan Pedroza
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Description Civil Liberties Who: American Civil Liberties Union What: Defend and preserve the individual right/liberties guaranteed to every person in the US When: 1920 Where: United States Why: First to focus on freedom of speech due to anti- war protestors, then racism Human Rights Who: members of UN What: idea that all people should have rights for being a human being When: 1948 Where: Most of the world Why: human are important and countries make laws to have protection
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DESCRIPTION CONT. Censorship What: Suppression of certain things Where: whole world Why: to protect the public from certain things
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Importance Human rights and civil liberties are extremely important. Without civil liberties and human rights In countries unlike the U.S. freedom of speech is not allowed. The right to question and argue is not permitted You are no longer protected by law There is no fair treatment No longer able to own You can’t choose whether you’ll be married or have a family And there is discrimination no longer be an actual human and live; can’t be happy without these rights and liberties
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Examples from The Book Human Rights: Replaced freedoms of modern life and a person’s rights to have happiness Civil Liberties Community, Identity, Stability (complete control over the people with Science) Censorship Eliminated the records and literature of the past Can’t question society and if they do they are removed from it and are isolated Can’t say word “mom” ; seen as an obscene word
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Flaws In the real world Civil Liberties/ Human Rights Forced labor No Freedom of speech Torture Executiuon Control of the press No freedom of religion No right to privacy
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COUNTRIES THAT LIMIT North Korea: speech Soviet Union: press, speech Cuba: expression, movement, press Africa: privacy China: privacy, harassment, Middle Eastern: dictatorship
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Communist STATES Communism: a theory created by Karl Marx, all property is publicly owned and each person works and is paid according to their needs Some Communist States North Korea Soviet Union China Cuba Middle East
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Totalitarianism Dictatorship: government by a dictator, which is a ruler with total power over a country Some dictatorship states: North Korea, Middle East In Brave New World: ○ The most dictatorship state is one who doesn’t scare but manages to convince its citizens to love its slavery ○ Technology used to control everybody ○ Soma
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Censorship: LAWS AND ATTEMPS Legality of Censorship Done in order to protect people Attempts: December 2012: 2,285 government requests to remove 24,179 pieces of content we see Youtube has been challenged in Russia
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Censorship: Media and banned books Media Music and radio: censored for everybody to hear Internet: censored to not access info by goverenment or private organizations TV: no bad language, sexual content Banned Books Due to foul language, sexual content, racism, religion, descrimination Some banned books: Brave New World, The Well of Loneliness The Satanic Bible
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BIBLIOGRAPHY "American Civil Liberties Union." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, 29 Nov. 2013. Web. 08 Dec. 2013. "Censorship Laws." Censorship-, Internet Censorship, Internet Censorship Bill. N.p., n.d. Web. 09 Dec. 2013. "Censorship." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, 12 Sept. 2013. Web. 09 Dec. 2013. "Human Rights in Countries." Countries. N.p., n.d. Web. 09 Dec. 2013. "Human Rights in Cuba." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, 12 June 2013. Web. 09 Dec. 2013
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BIBLIOGRAPHY CONT. "Human Rights in North Korea." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, 12 Aug. 2013. Web. 09 Dec. 2013. Human Rights." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, 12 June 2013. Web. 08 Dec. 2013. "List of Books Banned by Governments." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, 12 Sept. 2013. Web. 09 Dec. 2013.
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BIBLIOGRAPHY CONT. "Right to Life." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, 12 July 2013. Web. 09 Dec. 2013.
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