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Censorship is the act of removing or hiding information that may be seen as offensive, political unacceptable or a threat to security, but is it right? Is it okay to block out what someone says? As Americans we should have the freedom to say what we want and not have to risk the government coming down on us due to our beliefs, right? Well if you are in a high position of power in the government you can’t go and tell an opposing country all of our nation's secrets. That is where censorship comes in. It removes people's right to speak of curtain subjects. Is it good then? Only if used under the right circumstances and the correct amount. A world with too little will fall apart and a world with too much will revolt.

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Is technology good or bad? We have been asking this question for a long time. Long ago there was a time when the thought of security cameras at every intersection was seen as a horrible thing that would have been a huge violation of privacy. Now we have grown used to the idea and don’t mind it much, but is it good to have a camera always watching us? There are some times when cameras have been misused and violate people’s privacy and also times where cameras have been used to apprehend criminals. Then is it good or bad? What it boils down to is that it’s not the tech that is good or bad but who and how it’s being used.

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For a long time now people have been banning books from libraries, schools and other places you may go to read. As this happens a question arises; should we ban books? One one hand if we don’t then kids may read books that have inappropriate content for them. If we do then it limits a child’s view on the world to things deemed “appropriate” and if they hear things in the real world that they never heard before because books with it were ban then they may learn of it from an untrustworthy source and gain a perspective on it that may be unhelpful or biased. I believe that the correct way to solve this problem is instead of banning books we include a note on the inside of the cover of books in question saying why they are in question.

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Technology is growing more and more every day. Technology is good because, for example, robots (very advanced technology) can help with everyday things like helping in a hospital or a nursing home. But when robots help around the house that is making you more lazy.

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Social media can provide a way to express creativity. Creativity allows us to be ourselves. It's also an effective way to communicate with people. Communication is important among different people, so they can share ideas and opinions. Social media could also be bad though. I can carry people away from there present moment/what they believe in, and can start a lot of arguments that can tear people apart rather than bring them together. In the end, social media is positive and negative,

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Social media is good because it can be used for entertainment or communicating with friends. On the other hand, it can cause isolating yourself from friends and family because you are so focused on social media to notice or acknowledge what is going on around you.

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Technology is always changing. This is good and bad for our society. One way its good for our society is it can help save peoples life in hospitals. Another way it is good is we have more resources for learning. One way its bad is it can be an invasion of privacy. Someone made a camera the size of a grain of sand. That can be hidden any wear.

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Censorship is used many ways in our society. For example, safety of people's identities or location of houses or credit card numbers. Censorship for safety is good. It keeps people safe and lets people keep their privacy. Censorship can also prohibit ideas from being shared just because someone doesn't agree. Certain cases of censorship can be seen as subjective as to whether the censurer agrees or doesn't. This kind of censorship should not be allowed. Overall, censorship means to hide information, and this can be used in both good and bad ways.

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Technology is a tricky topic to define as either good or bad. In certain situations it can be our salvation, but the opposite is true as well. By using technology, we can easily inform ourselves on what is happening in our society. This keeps us aware and well educated on everything that's going on. With technology, no one is oblivious. It can also help us with our everyday problems, keep us connected, and gives us opportunities to evolve. Although, the downsides can be just as powerful. With the correct set of skills, nothing can be private. People can invade your privacy, it can be addicting, cyber attacks, etc. It causes many problems, equal to the solutions.

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Censorship can be defined in may ways. It could be recognized as suppressing or phrohibiting ideas.  It could also be recognized as restricting speech. I think sometimes it is needed to stop harmful infornmation or people from further spreading their negative and potentially  dangerouse ideas. However, it could aslo play a very bad role in our society. Censorship can stop the truth from reaching people, leading indiviuals to have wrong ideas about a certain person or event. It stops education from reaching those who seek it and those who need to hear it. While education is powerful, it is almost more dangerouse for people to be uneducated about important topics.

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Censorship is used to control and block out information. Censorship can block something inappropriate or harmful content, which is a good use for it. When censorship keeps us from living our daily lives or how we think, that is when it can become a problem.

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I believe it is good for technology to advance in some ways. First, I believe people creating new things, that allows them to use their talents/innovation to their fullest, and I think having innovative people is super important for society to function.
Also, it can make some people jobs easier. In some cases of bomb threats and nuclear accidents, rescue workers have sent in robots to disarm the bomb or access the situation. Having a robot do that eliminates the ability for the rescuers to get hurt. I also believe it is bad in a way because if we keep advancing robots and mechanical programs, those "robots" will take jobs that originally belonged to people. This could crash the economy if people started losing their money and jobs to robots. So I think if we are careful with technology so we don't replace jobs with technology

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People can always interact with other people, which can be both a good and bad thing. There are many escapes on the internet, but that can always become a rabbit hole effect, and become unhealthy. It can be good if it is controlled though.

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Technology has many effects on our society, both good and bad. It has helped us stay connected, can spread information quickly and effectively, and overall helped us with our daily lifestyles. But on the downside, technology is causing many problems in our society. For example, the overuse of technology and social media can lead to mental health issues. Technology also makes everyone very vulnerable considering the lack of privacy, theft, and overall destruction to societies.

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Censorship is a way of blocking things. They can be bad words or inappropriate language or blocking freedom of speech. There is good and bad of censorship. I believe its good to block out bad words and inappropriate language so our youth doesn't say them. I believe its bad to restrict our freedom of speech because we have the right as american citizens to say what we want. We should not get that taken away from us. This plays a good role in society so we don't have young kids saying bad stuff. But also a bad role in society because our power to say what we want (except threatening, etc.) should not be taken away.

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Growing technology is good for our society because it gives reason for advancement. When companies work to have the next best piece of tech then you reach groups advancing for faster and better ways for our society to live. You also end up with large companies giving our lives better and faster options and more efficient ways to live. Although, when our lives speed up more technology can mean ruining our environment to build the tech, forgetting to take a break from technology and letting it take over our lives, and allowing technology to become more important than certain areas of our lives. Since many companies are just focused on selling more products and getting more money, many ads and features on apps and tech are used to make us spend more time on our phones, computers, etc. Technology is good for advancements and efficiency but many companies are losing sight of the growth aspect and are just aiming for money now.

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Some good effects would be other people having fun for other peoples entertainment, like youtube. It also helps people escape from their life, if it's not doing to well. Some bad effects would be never leaving the house and isolating yourself from your family and friends. You may be too preoccupied with social media to pay attention to other people. You might forget to eat and drink, or not sleep.

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I think censorship is a way of blocking out things that may be disturbing (on the good side) or a secret (on the bad side). Censorship plays a big part of our society because it is how we block out the bad stuff, and sometimes not share vital info to the public. It can be dangerous to our society, and it can be reasonable as well.

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Censorship can mean many things. Overall, it can mean to block something so others can't see. The good in this would be blocking something harmful, but the bad would be blocking something useful. This plays a couple roles in our society. For example, it could be blocking out war, adding a warning or a video, or anything that provides support by covering the bad. It could also be, hiding a cure for a disease, or anything that is covering the truth/good.

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I think books should not be banned because people should be able to read whatever they want. But at the same time, in younger grades ( like elementary school) the school should know the right content and if the content is innapropiate for the age then yes they should ban it.

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It is good because it can get the word out, and spread news. It is bad because many people rely on it a little too much. It can end up taking the place of other things.

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I think it honestly depends on the topic. If a topic is creating problems and is not taught properly, people can get hurt. Especially if they are esoteric topics that are hard to comprehend for kids of certain ages. Although, if books are being banned because of biased opinions on certain topics, then I don't think it is okay to ban books. For example, if a school were to ban a book that doesn't follow a certain religion or contradicts the views of very few people, then the actual action of banning a book is too much.

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Censorship is a "censoring" or blocking of information from public eye. I think it can be used in very scarce situations. I think in a lot of the cases it is used in, it is used because the people in power don't want that certain opinions to be heard, rather than that opinion (whatever it is, the thing that is being censored) is considered dangerous. This happens on social medias today often with politics and I think it is wrong to censor someones opinion in politics just because you don't like it. I believe it should be allowed if the thing being censored is seriously dangerous, like if someone was being extremely inappropriate/dangerous.
So overall, I believe in some cases it should be allowed, but in a lot of the cases it is used in, it violates peoples freedom of speech.

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The restrictions on certain things that can be considered offensive, inapropriate, etc.

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No. Even if a book is considered "explicit" or whatever, kids should still have the right to read it, even if libraries don't promote it. Most of the books banned were because of either LGBTQ content or sexual content. I understand why libraries do not want kids reading this, but I do not think it should be banned.

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Censorship can be defined as many things. Some would say the act of suppressing/prohibiting certain pieces of info that are considered inappropriate. But due to some reasons, it could also be useful (usually to younger audiences) in order to keep some unharmed; mentally or physically. It can play both good and bad roles in our society, based off the intentions behind it. However, if by censoring they are unfairly taking away basic freedoms, that's when it becomes difficult to justify. Therefore it can become a bad thing.

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Technology is super cool, and is constantly advancing. It has made a lot of things, such as communication, better. But if technology keeps advancing, we are going to end up like the people in Wall-E.

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New technology allows us to learn new things all the time. Being able to be on top and a head on all things going around on the globe is an important factor in awareness. Technology can also allow us to communicate with others while not needing to be in person, which is very good in the current times. With new technology also comes many problems such as the ability of cyber attacks on the government and intellectual theft. People being able to control such technology makes it so everyone needs to stay even more alert.

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New, advanced and always changing technology can be good and bad for many reasons. It can be good because it can help us with our daily lives, communication, chores even, etc. It can also become bad because of the effects it could have on people. Everyone could be so obsessed with it that they never do anything else, and we then have a depressing world. New tech could possibly malfunction and cause many big problems as well.

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Ray Bradbury was having trouble with his life and during the time he started to write a short story. He started having random thoughts about books and remembered how about 3,000 - 4,000 years ago a library was burned, once on purpose and once on accident. He started off with the idea of books being burned and soon the short story became a novel.

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Always changing technology is useful because it gives us new opportunities to change and evolve, and it also helps us through our day-to-day lives. But technology can also be a bad thing. It can change the way that people live, making them more and more dependent on technology, and it doesn't let them see the right ways of the world.

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I believe that books should not be banned from schools. People should be able to read whatever they want and be able to choose the topic. There should be a disclaimer on the book in regards to what it is about. Books that are related to LGBT+ should not be banned because it is to educate kids on the topic.

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I believe it depends on the age level of the school and the content of the book. Obviously, there should not be a highly inappropriate book at elementary school; most kids at that age level would not understand what is going on. The books content should increase slowly as the grade goes up. In conclusion, certain books should not be banned, instead there should be a way to sort books by age level. If a child wants to read a book of a higher level, they should get permission from their parent/guardian.

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I believe that books shouldn't be banned from schools as long as we can guarantee that the schools are educating the students on the topic. Students should be taught that there are multiple views on issues and should be taught about how to take someone else's view and establish their own. We can't do this if we are keeping kids from experiencing the parts of the world that may not be as appealing. Hiding these from kids isn't the answer but educating kids on the topics would help to teach kids from a young age about different views and right and wrong.

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Censorship is the act of removing or changing certain pieces of information that a higher power feels people should not be introduced to. This can be a good or a bad thing considering the outcome of the actual censoring. But if this higher power is trying to stop people from being introduced to certain topics for the fear of too much knowledge, that's when censorship can become a bad thing.

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I think that the topic of the book matters, and if it also matters what age group the book is being read to or shown to. I think some should, and some should just not be able to be read by specific groups. It is important to give the public a reasonable standard about the books that their child may read, and it should be moderated. Some books may have content that is not comfortable to talk about, such as relationships or genders, and I think that these should be shown for educational purposes, as that would give kids more knowledge about uncomfortable things in in life.

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It is good because we have more access to things like entertainment and knowledge. We can also share our life stories and games through technology. It can be bad because if it's always changing, people might think that that piece of technology does something different than what is actually is. It's like our grandparents, they didn't have technology back then and always try to do something it doesn't. Everyone has such high expectations for technology to the point where creators make more advanced things. The more advanced technology is, more people use them.

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I think it really depends on the book, as well as the age level and maturity of the reader. While books are important and powerful, they can sometimes be abused as in a sense of kids justifying their rude and wrong actions by saying that they read it in a book. For example, kids calling other kids slurs that they learned from a book. However, if it's LGBTQ+ realated it should not be banned. Why would you ban a book with a straight couple, one is not more "normal" than the other. It's love which I beleive shouldn't be censored. Also LGBTQ+ books educate kids on the topic and can help kids who are questioning. They can also help members of the community feel less alone if they are ever picked on for who they are. I use this as an example because it seems that most of the books that are banned are banned due to being LGBTQ+ related.

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Censorship is when you are not allowed to do, say, read, etc. what you want. Censorship is fine when it's in a private place and for a good reason (swearing, etc.) But censoring things like talents or thinking, like in Harrison Bergeron, should not be allowed. It's sometimes kind of hard to tell what is right or wrong though, and anything could be justified with unfair reasoning, so it's kind of hard to tell.

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Censorship is when you don't allow something to be said, read, heard, or seen because of different reasons. This is useful when there are inappropriate parts of books that kids shouldn't be reading, and sometimes parents don't allow their children to read or watch different things because of their beliefs. It is a necessary thing for society so other people don't get offended or so people don't get the wrong idea about you.

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No, because everyone should be able to read what they want. If a book has bad language/content then maybe it shouldn't be supplied in a school library, but kids should be able to read what they want, where they want.

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The word censor / censorship comes from blocking and removing things that can be considered harmful ideas to others. Censorship can be good when there are things or words that are used in books or tv shows that are not appropriate for younger people. Censorship can be a good thing when trying to hide bad things from others, but it can also hide things that people should know. If everything was censored, we wouldn't know much about the bad things in life. So I believe that censorship can be good up until a certain point where it should be toned down and less protective walls are up.

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No, I do not agree that some books should be banned from schools. This is due to the fact that everyone should have the right to read whatever they want. Even if some don't agree with the contents of the book, that doesn't mean that they have the power to take it away from others). It is not fair to those who haven't gotten the ability to voice their opinions; before it was decided to ban books they may enjoy. Although if they wanted to, a possible solution would be to write a disclaimer of some sort to inform others of what the book contains.

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I believe these books should not be banned from schools. I believe this for many reasons. The first reason I believe this is because the main reason the books are banned, is because the characters are LGBT+. Someone who is apart of the community isn't harming anyone. If people are uncomfortable with this, they can simply choose to not read the book. For sexual assault their should be a consent form from parents ans a warning sticker. This can educate young girls and boys on how to act if this happens and how to keep themselves safe. For sexual education and sexual references, there can be a warning sticker on the front.  If its really bad then the parents can sign a consent form. If its because of religious beliefs/ culture, we as people need to be educated on other peoples religion and culture. If were more educated that we can respect others even though they have a different opinion. If the reason the book was banned because of racism then we should put a warning sticker on the front. Racism is a huge problem in our world and needs to be stopped. One reason we should keep these books is to educate on what is wrong with racism and how it can effect other people. If we read these books then young kids can learn that racism is wrong.

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I feel that books should not be banned based on the contents because people should be able to read whatever they would like to. So if there are books that are banned due to some people not liking what they say is just wrong. That is why I feel books should not be banned, but have like a disclaimer / the library says what the book contains is good.

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Censorship is a difficult word to define; it means different things to different people.
One definition is suppression of ideas and information that the government finds objectional.
The ALA defines the word as removal of materials from libraries.

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Technology has improved modes of transportation, making travel safer and more efficient.
Also, technology constantly improves our ability to communicate.
On the other hand, technology has isolated people from society.

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Ray Bradbury and his wife lived in Venice CA. They were very poor, so he needed to sell one of his books before their first child was born. Bradbury wrote a short story called "The Pedestrian" which was based upon an experience he had with a policeman. He used the same character from "The Pedestrian" as the fireman in F451.

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I know that some books should be banned if they are extremely explicit or might cause dangerous problems. But I do not think this should be used loosely, since sometimes books with things having to do with gender identity/relationships etc., aren't inappropriate. Of course there are some situations where this might be necessary. But if it is wanted to be read, there could be ways with parent/guardian permissions that would allow that book to be read, even though its topic.

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Many books are not suitable for children, like movies that are Rated R. I don't think things like LGBTQ+ related books should be banned because it educates kids on how it works, and they might be questioning.

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I understand that some books shouldn't be in the library, but you should be allowed to bring your own book. What you read is up to you, but that is the same for the school. They can choose what books they want us to read, but they shouldn't make us read them.