Censorship
...ed view of the situation, but the moral background to the issue of censorship has long been subject of intricate debate. In the example of Harry Potter, the banning of Rowling’s books in schools and libraries seems excessive and self-defeatist considering the gains to children of reading popular literature. There are of course also arguments for censorship, especially when dealing with the extremes in books and other media that is entirely based on insulting certain groups of people. The book ‘Huckleberry Finn’ by Mark Twain is considered by many to be racist because of repeated use of degrading terms. However racial equality emerges as a theme of this book. But who judges what the public have access to? To an extent, peoples existence is defined by what books they read, what newspapers and magazines they subscribe to and what films they watch. When anybody has control over what can be read and what cannot, they can control the entire demeanour of those peoples. Even with stringent legislation almost any wording of censorship law could be contorted by someone with the intention of restricting information. Under Hitler, Nazi Germany was very careful about what image was being presented in domestic press and literature and nobody wrote to many critical articles. Due m...