Does censorship violate freedom of speech?
It depends on how far you go with it. It’s perfectly acceptable to censor material distributed to non-adults. Like with any law banning children from certain activities, such as drinking, getting into R or NC17 rated theatre films, voting, purchasing cigarettes, etc., laws on media censorship regulate the intake of inappropriate material for adolescents. With adulthood, though, comes responsibility, and freedom of speech. Certain material may be censored for children, but should not be censored for adults because the producers of such material are exercising the First Ammendment. Although some materials may deem morally wrong or even dangerous in the eyes of our Supreme Court, it is not for them, but the public to decide what they see. Such is one of the basic concepts of democracy and freedom of the press/individuals. Despite this, the Supreme Court still unconstitionally, -in my opinion, at least-, filters through adult content (example: the SAFE Act on obscene images, which allows h
