SOC384H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Luka Magnotta, Federal Communications Commission, Flag Desecration
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Censorship is the removal, suppression, or restricted circulation of literary, artistic, or educational materials of images, ideas, and information on the grounds that these are morally or otherwise objectionable in light of standards applied by the censor. Suppression means it makes it more harder to get, or it can be reduced in term of who can access it. Its not always the government that acts as a censor, such as in australia target refused to put. Gta 5 on shelves because the game has violence against women. They think it would worsen the social problem. Because of that worry they took the games off the shelves. By taking it away from their stores they suppressed it by not allowing its sales. By: the canadian press, published on wed jul 17 2013 charged the owner of an edmonton website for carrying grisly video at the centre of the luka. Mark marek, who operates bestgore. com, faces one count of corrupting morals.
