Monday 13 April 2015

Rationale + Blog: "Censorship"

Rationale

In this blog entry, I will expose a huge problem that's been terrorizing the whole world for some time. This written task is to shed light into this mishap, which is called "Media Censorship".

Briefly, Censorship is to blur out / hide parts or whole news over a certain event, in in attempt to twist the plot of said event; all of this to make for better content or just because they don't agree with said event (Like what's currently happening in N. Korea with Kim Jong-un).

Over the course of my life, I've learned that lies and omission of facts always bring more harm than good, and that's what applies in this context. My pre-conception of "the ugly truth" is a really sticky band-aid over a nasty injury, as long as you don't pull the band-aid off, there'll be no pain, but the injury beneath it will grow infected, and it'll hurt to the extent that you'll wish you had pulled the band-aid earlier on.

This world was meant for us to live peacefully, but we won't be able to achieve such peace as long as things like Censorship exist and are being used as widely as it's currently being used.

This blog entry is addressed to all of the people who are wary of their position in relation to their government, and what they hide from them.

"To censor is to strip us of our most basic human rights."

If you're looking into censorship, then you came to the right place!
Censorship is the suppression of speech. In simpler words, somebody or something is not allowing you to speak your mind to the general public, and if you're even the least bit sane, you'll know that's wrong.
Censorship goes directly against the 18th article of the Declaration of Human Rights (Which can be found here), which entails that everyone has an innate right of freedom of thought and speech, that cannot be revoked nor avoided. And even if it were to be taken away, you wouldn't just take our right to think and say differently than others, but you'd take everything that we stand for (think about that for a minute).
"Censorship is like poison gas, a powerful weapon which may harm you as the wind shifts"

-Unknown

Not only this problem will take away one of your human rights (and it will if it does happen), but it will also be harmful as well, as it may harm your public figure or others' reputation (for example: your family, friends, peers, etc).

As I grew up, I learned that in the long run, an ugly truth is always better than a sugar-coated lie, this is all because it can be compared to a band-aid with a poorly cleaned injury under it. As kids, we were always scared of ripping the band-aid off because it would hurt even more than the injury you had on your arm before it, but if you didn't, your mom would say that you'd lose your arm if it wasn't cleaned once again, and that's the dilemma. Would YOU risk losing your arm over some extra pain? I, most definitely wouldn't, but the important people in our society would rather our arms fall off than ripping off the band-aid. That's without mentioning that all kinds of lies are bad, disregarding the fact of whether you lied for a good cause or just for the sake of it; it'll always end badly for someone. But in the case of censorship, it's just a cowardly lie created with the intention of covering somebody's free speech, just so the main public wouldn't get a hold of your ideas that might damage the prestige of people with power. Censorship always goes hand in hand with lies and deception, for the sole objective of obscuring the ugly truth

From a progressivist's point of view, censorship prevents us from learning from humanity's recent mistakes (as it hides valuable content from us), therefore, they're making general knowledge harder to acquire and will slow evolution in some way or another. If people aren't careful enough, they'll end up being an ignorant person who isn't informed at all.

For an example: North Korea's Kim Jong-un has such censorship set up in his country that they barely know that there are more countries besides them, maybe some don't even know basic knowledge as basic as the name of the continents. All of this is because Kim Jong-un, successor of Kim Jung-il, had set such fear into his son that both of them ended up being the worst in North Korea's history, anyways, censorship in this country is so rigid and stiff, that they even recurred to creating their own internet service, which only allows citizens to enter sites that have been recognized by the government themselves. Now, this wouldn't be as bad if they tried to convey an ideology that would progress their health and poverty issues, but no, they use this so only the ideas that their "great" dictator go through to them, to an extent that some are beginning to be brainwashed by his deceiving.

To end this post, my dear followers, I would like to point out that censorship won't and will never be the answer to any current problems a city / province / country / world will ever experience. As a wise man called Isaac Newton once said and stated as his "Third Law", was that for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. this is a fact that cannot be avoided and we won't ever be able to avoid.

Let this post be a revelation, a tiny man standing up for other tiny people in this world fighting the giants of society whom will not be defeated unless we shed some light over this issue and stand our ground for once and for all.

Now. I would like if you'd all remember this post and hold it dearly to our hearts, as censorship may quiet us down, they may take away our attitudes or our feelings. but they will never be able to take away what we hold most dearly. Our opinions. These will stick by us forever and will not be forgotten nor ignored. As this world was built by men & women who thought differently from the others, without them. There wouldn't be an us to either censor or be censored.

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