taking a poll: Censorship (please help me, by answering the questions, pleaseeee

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CherryBabe

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Hi, I'm doing this for my speech class. You just have to answer Yes or No to the 3 questions below. Thank you!

First I need your;
NAME
AGE
RELIGION
RACE
EDUCATION/GRADE
GENDER
Quest.#1
Does the goverment have too much control on censorship?

#2 Should parents be responsible for what their children see on TV?

#3 Should Hollywood be allowed to use more vulgar language during primetime?
 
NAME: Daj'ar
AGE : 35
RELIGION : Universal
RACE : German-Spanish-Irish
EDUCATION/GRADE : PhD
GENDER : Male
Quest.#1
Does the goverment have too much control on censorship?
NO

#2 Should parents be responsible for what their children see on TV? YES

#3 Should Hollywood be allowed to use more vulgar language during primetime?
I do not watch Hollywood, I watch CNN and Bloomberg in primetime.
 
Aaron
15
Jewish
Canadian
Currently in grade 10
Male

Yes they have way too much control, you should be able to say or do whatever you want as long as it doesnt directly hurt someone.

Definately, who else can you blame?

They can use as much language or crap as they want. you dont have to watch it if you dont want to.

Whatever happened to freedom??
 
Hi Cherry.

NAME Stephen
AGE 30
RELIGION undecided
RACE caucasian
EDUCATION/GRADE Bachelor's Degree
GENDER male
Quest.#1
Does the goverment have too much control on censorship?
No. However, in both the USA and Canada, Media corporations and 'public interest' groups definitely do.

#2 Should parents be responsible for what their children see on TV?
Of course. Who else should be?

#3 Should Hollywood be allowed to use more vulgar language during primetime?
No.
 
Let 'em speak

Name: BD
Age: 30
Religion: Pagan (mutt)
Race: ---- (I use the term "American" here, and refuse all other notions of race.)
Education: College dropout
Gender: Male

1. Governmental censorship authority? Too much. Specifically, too F/o/S.

2. Parental responsibility? Of course. Absolutely. No other way.

3. More profanity? Yes. Anything they want. As long as we continue to push political agendas on expressive media, we'll have a substandard product. Give the writers latitude, and they'll find out what the public actually likes. In the meantime, it's "What of the following options suits you best?" Well, my TV schedule is reduced to baseball, The Simpsons, and about 1/3 of the ComCent lineup. I haven't watched primetime network TV in several years for lack of any good writing, acting, or anything. Hell, even the X-Files pretty much sucks; I can't recall the last good episode since ... oh ... I know they've had at least one good one since Home, but I can't remember what it's called. But there you go.

Let's put it this way: which is better music, Brittany Spears or Soundgarden? Which has been banned from MTV? (Answers below).

thanx,
Tiassa :cool:

(Answers for Tiassa's questions: Better band? Soundgarden, by far; better songwriting, better musicianship, and, frankly, Cornell could put that little teeny-bopper in her place for vocal performance. Banned from MTV? Again, Soundgarden. Apparently the censoring standard is largely Judeo-Christian, another reason why censorship in this country sucks. We can abuse anybody we want, but if we write, Well you stare at me in your Jesus Christ pose, arms held out like you're the coming of the Lord, you get kicked off MTV. So much for avant-garde, original, and cutting-edge, eh?)

PS: I think the only place the government doesn't have enough censoring authority is advertising. I could care less about the Calvin Klein "get-horny-for-teenagers" campaign; stupid is as stupid does. But why should you get to lie about your product? After all, are you not establishing a verbal contract offer when you claim that your product can do something in exchange for someone's money? Put all the riders, extraneous clauses, and fine print on the screen, then, such as, "This commerical is intended for artistic value only and should not be taken to represent the product." Read a technology ad; compare what's written in the features with what you actually get for the big number; usually, they're two different products. This practice alone warrants government intervention. Sure, we can all spot it if we're smart enough, but why the hell should we have to? What, isn't the product good enough on its own? Why not just advertise the real product at its real price?
 
NAME = Stryderunknown
AGE = Undecided
RELIGION = I make it up as I go along
RACE = English
EDUCATION/GRADE = isn't secret so go do a search.
GENDER = Male
#1
Does the goverment have too much control on censorship?

It would depend on what angle you take, namely Censorship as in Classifying information or Propaganda manipulation (like some of the others have got mixed up with)
I can't say wether there is too much or too little, Censorship can come in handy if it means keeping the population from panicking, of course it can blow back in their face if the populous finds out that the censorship has been used to blind them from whats going on.

I do state though that there is a need for censorship, if everything was to be out in the open, then we would have more problems.

#2 Should parents be responsible for what their children see on TV?

Parent's should not just be responsible for what they see on TV, but also knowing their child's whereabouts and playing an active role in their growing up so as to try an illevate certain problems that could develop in later life.

Of course this would mean if your child wanted to watch television you would like to either have some classification or rating system, or you would have to record all the programs they might watch first and watch them before your child to check content. But how many of you would do that?

#3 Should Hollywood be allowed to use more vulgar language during primetime?

It's not the language that's the problem, its what is associated with the language, like an act of violence or mindless destruction.
You might be able to get away with a person hitting their thumb with a hammer and swearing, but that's different in comparison from a person threating a person before torturing them or beating them to death.
 
About that question of should they be aloud to use more language------well here's my detailed answer.

People basically want it because they dont get enough of it. Eventually they'll get sick of it. If you eat to much pizza then you dont want to eat pizza anymore, right? well I for one really dont care for that crap but I do care for freedom, at least let them take it of the air willfuly.

Infact theres a good story, that pertains to this.
In the soviet union (back then) there were all of these young teenagers. They wondered what went on in church. So this huge group of them went to this huge church in Moscow. They all rioted and broke the doors down to get inside. Can you imagine how happy the priests here would be if that happened to them -- all the children desperate to pray and worship God? Well anyway, thats basically my point. I'm sure those kids left not long after they got into the church.

(BTW, when the soviet union existed the rule was 'freedom of religion, and freedom from religion'.
 
NAME = Tim
AGE = 23
RELIGION = Agnosticism
RACE = Belgian
EDUCATION/GRADE = B.Sc. (M.Sc. in July 2002)
GENDER = Male

#1 Does the goverment have too much control on censorship?

No. Especially the regulations concerning commercials are unsatisfying: all products are in some way presented to be associated with sex. No CK -> no sex. No Kellogs breakfast cereals for a nice body -> ... . I've seen commercials promoting cable internet relating that connection to succes with women. This twisting and disinforming should be taken care of by proper information.

#2 Should parents be responsible for what their children see on TV?

Yes. Not the government should be responsible for education of children, but the parents have to take their responsabilities and decide for themselves what is acceptable for their children to watch and what isn't.

#3 Should Hollywood be allowed to use more vulgar language during primetime?

Yes. In relation to my previous answers: parents can prevent their children from watching vulgar language, and should use these capabilities. This should not prevent people with enough common sense to realize "that it is just a movie" to watch the profanities, torture-scene's and whatever they like.

Bye!

Crisp
 
First off all, Im glad to see that everyone here is sane and not spending to much time listening to Mr. Canubus on extreme liberlaism.

NAME: Joshua
AGE: 16
RELIGION: Christian
RACE : Caucasion
EDUCATION/GRADE : 10th
GENDER :Male
Quest.#1
Does the goverment have too much control on censorship? Well, not yet....but there heading that way.

#2 Should parents be responsible for what their children see on TV? HELL YES. Saying anyone else is responsible is bascially holding up a sign to the world that your an idiot.

#3 Should Hollywood be allowed to use more vulgar language during primetime?

As much as they want, Thats one of our freedoms in this counrty. Freedom of Speech, and Freedom of Choice. We have the right to choose what we do in our lives. The goverment is taking away two of our most important rights. The whole idea of movies, games and music influencing kids is ludacris.


IM 16 years old and have played games all my life. I started playing Doom and quake in elementary school. To this present day, I have not even killed a deer. The only animal I have killed was a bird. Thats it, just one. I dont have any urges to kill people. I play stuff like Max Payne and Half Life and Hitman. I have never got the urge to kill. I listen to profane music, and watch profane movies. Yet I am not influenced by them.

OUR PROBLEM - PARENTS!!!!!

I was lucky I was actually parented as a child and had good parents. I can not go to wal-mart now and buy a game unless im 18. Its getting ridiculous. They are trying to ban violence in video games all together but that is an exact violation of our constitution.

Also If kids play these games there are going to more then likey see the fact that when you shoot someone blood does spurt out and people yell and screem and suffer pain. This will probably teach them about the evil in killing more than their dead beat parents will.

America is growing lazy, they dont want someone to tell them kids are killing kids because of them sitting on there @$$ and not spending time with there kids, they want to have a scapegoat, They want to here:

That boy shot the other boy cuase he heard the word Damn in a song this morning.

Thats absurd and ridiculous. Anyone who wants a good example of family values and a peaceful nation look at japan. They are more free then we are and yet they dont have neer as many probs as we do mainly because there parents actually PARENT.

sorry for all the typos, when i get mad, I cant type. I think i have fixed them all.
 
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Name : Banshee
Age : yes
Religion : Cosmos- Child
Race : Netherlands
Education: Atheneum - University
Gender : Female

Question 1 Yes, the government has too much control
Question 2 If the kids are little, yes of course, bigger children
won't listen any more to what you say.
Question3 Well, they 'beep' on MTV enough don't they.
I bet the language is not the main issue here. They
just want to know how we react on this question.
Well, I do not care about the language they use in
Hollywood movies.

:rolleyes: Bye.

:p :p
 
Name: Josh
Age: nearly 16
religion: doesn't exist
Race: human
Education: 10th
Gender: male


Question 1: i don't think so

Question 2: of course

Question3: to an extent
 
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