Why Censorship is Wrong

Brian Lamacraft
5 min readJan 3, 2020
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Our world is increasingly living in a charged political atmosphere. This political chaos is cousin people to censor more than they might otherwise do. Censorship is not the way out of our current problems. In fact, censorship is going to make things worse. There are several reasons why you should not censor anyone.

I have No Control Over Censorship

First of all, I would like to say that I have no control over censorship.I’m not responsible for those that decided to censor. Perhaps those that are censoring other people are trying to hide something themselves. They simply don’t want to see the other side. We’ve seen throughout history what censorship does and where it could lead. I don’t want to see our world go in that direction. It’s increasingly looking like it might go in that direction. Censorship is not the way forward.

Sites Can Censor All they Want

Some of the sites performing censorship are doing so because they don’t want the content on their sites. Since these sites are not run by any government agencies, they are free to censor whatever they feel like censoring. As a person using these sites, you don’t have any control over what they are doing. You can complain and make a stink about it, but more likely than not you’re not going to be listed on the site again. The owners of that site have decided…

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Brian Lamacraft
Brian Lamacraft

Written by Brian Lamacraft

Brian is an online writer and blogger. In his spare time, he plays guitar and goes camping.