An uncensored press is dangerous

Violence ignited in Nepal against Indian film industry when an Indian bollywood movie ‘Chandi Chowk to China’ state that lord Buddha was born in India. Actually, such uncensored movies, books, plays, that spread wrong and false ideas among people have always been one of the main causes for religious and social conflicts that rise between two groups of people. In fact, uncensored press increases vulgarity in society. An uncensored press can circulate hoaxes around a nation; stab a person of a particular ethnicity or religion; probe into a person’s privacy and also creates cultural, lingual and religious conflicts. The whole humanity has to suffer if the deterioration of cultural ideas occurs due to such press. So, the subjective views, wrong and unreliable ideas are the main characters of an uncensored press that imposes a serious threat to the national integrity and disrupts religious harmony in the world.

The main danger that spreads through an uncensored press is vulgarity. An uncensored press is potentially dangerous via electronic media. Vulgarity and absentee would be on top of the television and other means of press. The young minds of children would be affected by crime scenes as killing, drug abuse, smoking, etc, shown by an uncensored press. The cultural and moral aspect of society would come in danger because the adults would not be able to decide what is, actually, correct. The vulgar scenes rapidly increase on television channels, newspapers and other means of press in order to earn profits. The Greek Philosopher Plato said that-“Art that cannot be used to inculcate the moral principles in people should be banned.” Thus, censorship is inevitable. The uncensored press, eventually, disintegrates the moral aspect of society through vulgarity and shatters the society like a glass.

Uncensored press,also, raises the violence in country and even in the world. Salman Rushdie, an Anglo-Indian novelist, was condemned to death by former Iranian spiritual leader Ayatollah Ruhallan Khomeini on February 14, 1989, accusing him of mocking Prophet Muhammad in his book called Satanic Verses. Rushdie was praised for his work by his admirers but at the same time, it enraged the Muslims across the globe. This shows how even an award winning novel can trigger violence due to lack of censorship. The articles published in books or in newspapers that pin-points the particular ethnic group should be prohibited. An uncensored press usually cites violence between groups of people creating a gap between them. Therefore, uncensored press is dangerous.

Uncensored press puts the whole civilization in danger. The violence, gap between people, vulgarity, that is caused by an uncensored press always deteriorate culture. The way people behave with each other changes because of cultural and religious violence. Many civilizations in history- including Mayan- were lost somewhere in one corner of the time because of conflicts between people. The idea that is suitable in one culture may not be suitable for the other. For example, sex before marriage is the idea which is widely accepted in western culture but not in Eastern culture. Such ideas should be censored on press before it enters the other society where such idea causes cultural or any type of threats to civilization. This is also a reason to say that uncensored press is dangerous.

The point of view differs from person to person, nevertheless, that an uncensored press draws more evil and negative aspects in society. The censorship under an autocratic regime destroys the knowledge. People would be deprived of reality as in the 20th century Russia and Poland where press was controlled and ran by communist government. But the necessity of censorship far outweighs its negative side. Hence, an uncensored press is dangerous as the inter-racial harmony, peace and co-operation in the world may be on the brink of disrupting in the absence of proper censorship.