Censorship

Censorship is the act of withholding any information in the form of music, video or written texts from the public. Censorship may be the result of political, religious or social condition of the nation.-for example during the time of Hitler the newspapers were not allowed to criticize the government. Different nations have different definitions of censorship and so the censorship of media that takes place around the world is not uniform. For example the magazine Playboy is banned in India but in the United States it is legally available for sale to the common people. But the question arises how far s censorship justified and where do we the draw the line when it comes to censoring explicit materials.
Today most of the free thinkers and the so called politically aware people stress on the abolition of censorship completely. They reason that media should not be censored as it brings reality to the people and each person has the right to the freedom of speech and expression. For them democracy and non-censorship are two parallel things and the existence of one without the other is meaningless. Abolition of censorship is important in their eyes because it exposes the common people, especially children from the realities of the world. Withholding the truths of pornography and sex from the children would lead them to become curious on the subject and they may try to access it from illegal means. They think that hiding information would lead to no good and would only promote delusion and ignorance on the part of the common people.
But there is also ample evidence to prove the importance of censorship in this world. Censorship is important since it helps in maintaining peace in the world, as acts of violence and riots etc. which may disturb the religious sentiments of the people are generally censored. Furthermore media always does not bring truth to the people and many times they twist up simple issues and make them offensive in the eyes of the people resulting in wide public outrage. Censorship has also been proven as an important tool to preserve national security. Things which may leak important details about the security of the nation is banned from public view. Censorship is particularly important in those countries which is a place of various religions, castes, creeds and races because things that may be acceptable in one culture may be unbearable among others. So censorship plays an important part in promoting racial harmony and political stability which is very important for the growth and development of the nation.
Thus censorship has its own pros and cons. In my opinion a balance should be striked out between the two so that people are aware of what is happening around them but yet remain unaware of the wrong details conveyed by the media and also the peace and security of the nation is not hampered. As the ultimate goal of mankind is to live in harmony therefore some degree of censorship is important to reach this goal.