This week I did some more research into my ethics and technology topic, censorship. I chose censorship as my topic because I am very anti-censorship and I wanted to see if I can find any information that would either change my view of it, or solidify my opinions on it. I started by finding a couple of different types of censorship. Parental controls, social media, and government censorship were the first three that I decided to look into. It turns out there's a couple of different parental controls that parents use to supervise their children. Although this is a much less talked about form of censorship it is still censorship and I believe that in extremes it can lead to a sheltered child. The next thing I investigated was censorship in social media websites. Websites have the power to hinder certain stories or information from the public. For example, if Facebook wanted to they could censor all stories about a politician and make sure that they would not show up on trending, eetc. This kind of censorship is a lot more dreadful since it can have devastating consequences when very large websites do it. We can take the latest US election as an example. There are reports of many fake news stories being shared at an alarming rate on certain websites, while their counterparts were nowhere to be seen. And finally I did some research on government censorship which is prevalent in many countries around the world, with an emphasis on China. The main way that governments censor the “web”, is by forcing search engines to exclude websites for certain search queries. Governments can also ban certain social media posts and force social media websites to delete comments that do not agree with the government's agenda. Again the best example of this is China, which is terrifying. Billions of people are being forced to live under this kind of censorship, it almost reminds me George Orwell's 1984.
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Laura Chavez
3/26/2017 10:10:53 pm
I can understand why you are anti-censorship. I do think that strict parental controls can lead to a very sheltered child. I agree with the points you make in your blog about government censorship. However, in what cases do you think it would be okay to use censorship?
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Martin Almaraz
5/18/2017 07:14:59 pm
Not Jose, but
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Joseph Molina
4/1/2017 06:19:05 pm
The parental control censorship is one that I believe is more sociablly accepted. I did not think of it until now but it is true, the parental controls can lead to a sheltered child. But what are the true side effects of sheltering a child from television programming? I believe up to a certain age a child should not see everything on television but I know this involves more than a simple decision as we would have to take into consideration the wishes of the parents as they are the true decision makers.
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Darren Chan
4/9/2017 12:55:37 pm
Censorship has sprung up a lot in different areas, I do agree that censorship can be bad in some cases. Yes I agree that it is the parent's job to shelter their child, but too much sheltering isn't good for the child.
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Ana Perez
5/8/2017 07:33:20 pm
I agree with the points you have made regarding censorship. I never really thought about how bad it can be. I used to generally think that it was a good thing, but after reading this article I change my mind about it. I also do agree that censoring too many things from a child can make a child very sheltered.
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Martin Almaraz
5/18/2017 07:12:21 pm
I liked your point being made about how parental controls are a form of censorship, and can lead to some developmental issues in the children such as being too sheltered. I also think that that may not be the only cause of sheltered children as they are usually associated with helicopter parents.
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