Censorship Advantages and Disadvantages in the Media: My View

Censorship in the media is a controversial topic that I can't stop think about. There is a lot of debate about censorship, its advantages and disadvantages, so in this essay I will briefly explore this topic with a focus on media censorship.

First of all is necesary to say that in the actual world media has an important part in the life of each person, we can mention not only the media TV, newspaper and more lately social media, the thing is that, the smartphones have become in a tool that everybody has, because of the utility that these little peaces of plastic and glass have. With the technology comes some problems for everybody, and with this kind of technology comes other types of problems, because the content is so extensive and has a lot of things that not everybody should watch or listen. For example imagine that you are a little kid and your parents give you a cellphone as a gift, may be you could use it to play at first, but there are many kids that are to curious and they start to see explicit things in the web they could see porn and things like that.

In the TV usually there are a lot of programs, music videos, realities that show you pornography and many people try to avoid these things because is like a constant bomb in your mind telling you about sex or something like that.

Also exist a lot of advertising in the media that may be could fill you of stress, but not everything is about these kinds of things, because there are another types of censorship. Yes, sometimes many people think in a different way that media doesn't want to you see it. Gay life for example it's a style of living that many people in our time dislike a lot, they also hate this topic, so they start to censor these things, or gay marriage they are silenced in many ways.

You never will see on tv people talking bad of one specific religion, and if they are talking about this, is in a short period of time, they only show you what they want to show you, so they censor some ideas to sell you another types of ideas.

The companies apply the censorship as a way to manipulate the people, we can mention CNN, BBC, FOX NEWS, etc. so you will never see in this channels a review of the established order, that is why this is a type of censorship, because they censore the ideas that they want. But we have a new trench where we can show the ideas that we believe in, I'm talking about the social media, the place where everybody can show their ideas whithout problems, but also this place has its limitations.

You can't show nudity or violence on Facebook or Instagram, and sometimes this is good but another times it could work as a way to show the real and crazy world where we live. Then the censorship sometimes is necessary to keep an order, but everybody should be able to show the ideas which they believe in, so nobody should shut up you.