Ever since the beginning of the internet and especially social media, there has been serious censorship with many different images and topics. As technology and electronics become more and more accessible to the point where everyone has a screen in their pockets, censorship has become more and more of a problem. This reoccurring blocking of information has become almost invisible to the public and most people don’t even realize its happening to them. Now more than ever more secret information has coming out from under the surface of media. More and more people are starting to see the truth through the screen and are able to see real problems in the world.

In the Ted Talk we were assigned to watch they discussed how the censorship not only affected the bigger people, but also the people who are paid to do the censoring. When livestreams come up where people are attempting to commit suicide repetitively, they also begin to feel suicidal thoughts and even end up committing suicide. The censorship of the media has a toll on everyone involved. When the public is being censored from the truth, the truth gets blurred and twisted. In the past censoring wasn’t as bad as it is today because social media was a newer platform of the internet and was always changing and shifting. Nowadays there is censorship and almost everything. I know personally I didn’t know much about the world and other world conflicts and troubles until recently when the group Anonymous came out again for the Black Lives Matter movement and started to unveil more truth. There is still some censorship with the tweets they post but i have already learned so much more than what i had known before. Before when i would scroll through social media i would only see funny memes or relatable posts or pictures of friends, but now my feed is full of videos and images of people suffering and revolting all over the world. I know some censorship is necessary in media especially for children, but we deserve to know the truth about the world and the conflicts that happen within it. Why does someone get to decide what we see and when, shouldn’t that be our decision? It’s our lives isn’t it. It only affects us if we choose to let it. If we do get the chance to choose what we see, is that better? To be in your own personal bubble secluded from the rest of the world?

Do you think the censorship in the media is necessary? Or should we be able to decide what we see or not see?