CENSORSHIP
Censorship means to ban
something, such as a film or a song, to someone, usually because of age. In
most countries, there are rating systems so as to determine whether a movie,
for instance, is suitable for all audiences or not. This happens when, at the
discretion of those who regulate all of that, a material is indecent,
distasteful, immoral or offensive.
Nowadays, nobody pays a
lot of attention to the signs which appear on TV, which are shown in different colours depending
on the age that the viewer should be able to watch a specific content. As far as I am concerned, in
Spain, if everybody is allowed to watch something it is used the colour green.
Then, there are other ones used when not everyone can watch a certain
programme, which are blue, yellow, orange and red.
Nevertheless, most people tend not to take all
of that seriously. In fact, those rating systems are not considered
restrictions, but recommendations. For example, if you are 15 years old and you
are decided to go to the cinema to watch a film which is supposedly for over
eighteen people, no matter what you are said, you are going to be allowed to go
inside.
The way it all works now is fairly useful from
my point of view. The reasons for forbidding someone to listen to a song or to
watch a YouTube video may be highly subjective, so if there was a debate it
would all be very ambiguous. That is why, instead of not letting people to do
something, it is much better just to warn them so that then if there is any
problem, it is their own problem.
By the way, these advertisements might be used
as an excuse by parents in their aim of not allowing their children to watch
something. So, if kids ever asked why they could not watch a particular movie
or series, parents would show them the warnings on TV and their children would
not get angry with them.
To sum up, even though rating systems are
universally acknowledged to be something bad for society, I personally think
that these are really useful to work as suggestions, but not as impositions as
in several countries.
ERIC FORTES MOREL- 1ST BATX “A”
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