Censorship in the media

Censorship in the media can have many good and bad aspects of preventing certain information from being displayed to the public. These censorships are deemed what’s harmful to the vulnerable viewers which are enforced by the dominant ideologies that lead huge media outlets, businesses, governments and private organizations. This is there to suppress people’s ideology and truth’s that would normally undermine the dominant ideology that most key powerful people have, for example politicians within the government or company directors such as those of Apple or Google.  However even though censorship is often deemed unjustifiable by most, censorship is there to act as a means of protection from keeping the vulnerable at bay when viewing content that could be explicit, harmful, politically incorrect, sexual or even feature  dangerous religious content.

Music broadcast stations that induce censorship onto the content that the present tends to be the most popular form of censorship known to the majority. The original song produced by the artist would feature explicit language which will then be checked by these stations and be edited over with an alternative word or sometimes would be replaced with a sound effect as a whole. This is not entirely a bad thing because there are some people who prefer not to listen to explicit content in songs in order to enjoy the content which is the main focus of why it’s there, obviously intended for vulnerable people, on the other had the explicit versions are for the consumers who are invulnerable to this type of explicit content and therefore caters for two separate audiences.

Two other popular forms of censors occur within the film industry and the video game industry. Though this normally occurs when a film or game is produced in the country of origin then is attempted to be localised somewhere else, for example, Australia due to it’s strict law’s on gore and violence; the material would be severely edited or even banned in the country by the dominant ideology that deems it unsafe for the public.  A film’s content could be manipulated to change certain parts of the film that would have relevance to the plot, characterization, humour or dialogue. This is mostly only edited for television viewing though, the material being broadcasted by basic cable television and broadcast television. The use of this is not only allocated for use by these companies though, but distributors also have the right to change films content. Video game censorship is essentially the same however the censorship of a game is normally put forward by the countries law. A recent example is the release of Fallout 4 being delayed till December 2015 in Japan due to references in the game that link to the nuclear weapons that were used in World War II against Japan, which Japanese people are extremely vulnerable about such topics; to the point where the government still tries to deny their wrongdoings in war history.