A Big No to Censorship

      

When you silence a girl's voice, 

You are not protecting her.

You're only telling the world that you fear,

She might win the battles herself.

Imagine one fine day you're going to the market not in your vehicle but inside a police van behind big bars only for safety purposes. The gap between bars is enough to notice the surroundings. But is it necessary? 

These bars are censorship through which content reaches the audience in a more processed manner. 

Bars steal the ability to think, to judge what's right or wrong. It steals options to experience, to explore and mainly to make mistakes.

Censorship is the suppression of any content- speech, public communication, or access to information found objectionable, offensive, politically incorrect, or a threat to security.

 The term censor in Latin is 'censere' means to appraise, value or judge. 

A rapid paradigm shift in moral standards changes the status of the world. Society at large has now grown into a global village.

The control of the information and ideas circulated within a society has been a characteristic of dictatorships throughout history. In Ray Bradbury's book Fahrenheit 451, there is a strong theme of how censorship molded society.

Censoring in accessing information is censoring knowledge. 

 It takes away the freedom from skillful minds to create remarkable things.

It kills freedom of expression and speech. It also violates the first amendment in our constitution, which consists of the prohibition of making laws that infringe on freedom of the press.

Significantly, people deprive of learning the truth, knowing less in-depth knowledge of the topic. 

There are many examples of this. For Instance, the freedom of creating web series like Mirzapur shows the other side that does exist. 

Films of the crime genre, specifically depicting thieves and violence cannot be made morally correct. The least it does contain is abusive language in dialogue. 

 Who watches the watchers? 

Censorship shifts the power into the hand of the government to manipulate the decisions where people consume the filtered content. If the authorities start Dictating each step of what to do and what not, then humans are no longer responsible for their choices.

The variety of powers differs in idealism, one person is ought to impact society in a way they choose the consequences. Government can also use it to keep Pertinent Information from Its Citizens. These officials can easily go away with their wrongdoings like corruption and abuse of power. 

There are similar cases such as by banning news outlets. 

Responsibility is needed to be owned, 

Breaking the comfort zone leads to great paths.

In a nutshell, I would like to conclude that the issue of censorship has worried citizens, free speech supporters and civil rights organizations over the world. It is also widely debated and discussed in India, where governments over the years have tried to censor free speech and the free flow of information. The right to freedom of speech and expression has been upheld as a basic right by the supreme court of India in various judgments. The freedom to the medium of expression is still in the hands of the dominating regime.

Therefore, people should self-censor their speech, and have the ability to understand the difference particularly incorrect and correct content. 

Fiction is fantasy not reality. 

Thank you.

@irrational_me