Many governments have been monitoring and regulating news, reports, and views published in the media. While some activists oppose censorship because of its disadvantages, this method of controlling the media can effectively reduce misleading messages and guard impressionable teenagers against toxic content.
On the one hand, censorship can be abused by authorities to hide their corruption from the public and manipulate the population by propaganda. If news companies were entirely under the control of state agencies, there would be little news about corrupt governmental projects. The residents, therefore, would not be able to fight against corruption due to the lack of transparent information and evidence. Besides, a stringent policy on controlling people's voices may violate a fundamental human right, freedom of speech. When people either cannot either raise their opposing views or thoughts or be heard by others, there will be no liberty and democracy. People, then, can only know, think, and speak what their rulers allow them to do.
On the other hand, monitoring the media offers myriad benefits to individuals and society. Governments can ensure the authenticity of news that their citizens read or watch daily. There is plenty of fake news, especially on the internet, which means that a measure to regulate news is necessary. For example, fake news on the Coronavirus outbreak has caused people to be extremely frightened and behaved irrationally, such as over buying food or discriminating against other races, which further complicates the situation. Furthermore, young children have long been protected from inappropriate content such as violent or sexual movies by the governments' control over the videos and news that are available to them.
In conclusion, some governments can take advantage of censorship over newspaper companies, television programs, and social networking sites to serve the aims against their citizens' benefits. However, this can be considered an effective weapon against false or unsuitable data to protect society's stability.
Many
governments
have been monitoring and regulating
news
, reports, and views published in the media. While
some
activists oppose censorship
because
of its disadvantages, this method of controlling the media can
effectively
reduce
misleading messages and guard impressionable
teenagers
against toxic content.
On the one hand, censorship can
be abused
by authorities to
hide
their corruption from the public and manipulate the population by propaganda. If
news
companies
were
entirely
under the control of state agencies, there would be
little
news
about corrupt governmental projects. The residents,
therefore
, would not be able to fight against corruption due to the lack of transparent information and evidence.
Besides
, a stringent policy on controlling
people
's voices may violate a fundamental human right,
freedom of speech. When
people
either cannot either raise their opposing views or thoughts or
be heard
by others, there will be no liberty and democracy.
People
, then, can
only
know,
think
, and speak what their rulers
allow
them to do.
On the other hand
, monitoring the media offers myriad benefits to individuals and society.
Governments
can ensure the authenticity of
news
that their citizens read or
watch
daily. There is
plenty
of fake
news
,
especially
on the internet, which means that a measure to regulate
news
is necessary.
For example
, fake
news
on the Coronavirus outbreak has caused
people
to be
extremely
frightened and behaved
irrationally
, such as over buying food or discriminating against other races, which
further
complicates the situation.
Furthermore
, young children have long
been protected
from inappropriate content such as violent or sexual movies by the
governments
' control over the videos and
news
that are available to them.
In conclusion
,
some
governments
can take advantage of censorship over newspaper
companies
, television programs, and social networking sites to serve the aims against their citizens' benefits.
However
, this can
be considered
an effective weapon against false or unsuitable data to protect society's stability.