Whats censorship all about?
Ben Franklin may not have been speaking about censorship in particular when he made that comment in the 1700s, but he very well could have been. After all, censorship and the controversy surrounding it were present in societies around the world long before Franklin’s time. It was the Romans, in fact, who refined the process back around the time of Christ, laying the foundation for a practice that would endure for the next 2000 years. While censors passed judgment on all aspects of human culture – from music, literature, film and science to art, politics, journalism and religion – censorship itself evolved into the form we know today. Dr. Graham Knight, a sociology professor at McMaster University in Hamilton offers this definition of modern censorship: …
