Censorship: the growing

concern
KALEB, CALEB, MEMEMASTER, ANCIENT
ALIENS,
CAMERON, ANTHONY, COLTON

Censorship
the practice of officially examining books, movies, etc.,
and suppressing unacceptable parts.

Censorship in Nazi Germany

The Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels
Lasted from 1933-1945
The aim of censorship under the Nazis was simple: to
reinforce Nazi power and to suppress opposing
viewpoints (Commies) and information.
"The chief function of propaganda is to convince the
masses, whose slowness of understanding needs to be
given time so they may absorb information; and only
constant repetition will finally succeed in imprinting an
idea on their mind."

Censorship in the Soviet Union

In the USSR the Communist Party was pervasive and
strict.
The Soviets went as far as to jam foreign radio
stations
Censored literature that was against the party and
usually killed off the writer for being capitalist.
Had a state run film industry to censor out anything
that the government didnt want you knowing.

Censorship in America
Many people dont realize that censorship occurs in America
and many companies pay people to stay silent on certain topics
so word never spreads
Also just this week Facebook was discovered banning
Conservatives and people speaking out about Facebooks
censorship of Conservatives
The First Amendment protects against censorship imposed by
laws, but does not give protection against corporate censorship
Also the war on terror has many concerned about the 11
government surveillance programs targeted towards citizens

Modern-day Examples Of
Censorship
Censorship happens everyday, it happens on TV every
morning.
The news stations you watch censor everything to
have a twist in the political interests of theirs to be
favoured. Ex (Fox News, MSNBC, CNN)
Such manipulation can take the form of political
pressure (from government officials and powerful
individuals), economic pressure (from advertisers and
funders), and legal pressure (the threat of lawsuits
from deep-pocket individuals, corporations, and
institutions).

The most interesting example of

censorship
During WW2 allied bombers began fire bombing German libraries Technical University ofAachen
(50,000 volumes), theBerlin Staatsbibliothek(2 million volumes), theBerlin University Library
(20,000 volumes), theBonn University Library (25% of its holdings), theBremen Staatsbibliothek
(150,000 volumes), the Hessische Landesbibliothek inDarmstadt(760,000 volumes), the Library
of the Technical University in Darmstadt (two thirds of its collection), the Stadt- und
Landesbibliothek inDortmund (250,000 of 320,000 volumes), the Schsische Landesbibliothek
inDresden(300,000 volumes), the Stadtbibliothek in Dresden (200,000 volumes),
theEssenStadtbcherei (130,000 volumes), theFrankfurt Stadt- und Universittsbibliothek
(550,000 volumes, 440,000 doctoral dissertations, 750,000 patents), theGiessenUniversity
Library (nine tenths of its collection), theGreifswaldUniversity Library (17,000 volumes),
theHamburgStaats- und Universittsbibliothek (600,000 volumes), the Hamburg CommerzBibliothek (174,000 of 188,000 volumes), theHannoverStadtbibliothek (125,000 volumes), the
Badische Landesbibliothek inKarlsruhe(360,000 volumes), the Library of the Technical University
in Karlsruhe (63,000 volumes), theKasselLandesbibliothek (350,000 of 400,000 volumes), the
Murhardsche Bibliothek in Kassel (100,000 volumes), theKiel University Library (250,000
volumes), theLeipzig Stadtbibliothek (175,000 of 181,000 volumes),
theMagdeburgStadtbibliothek (140,000 of 180,000 volumes), theMarburg University Library
(50,000 volumes), the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek inMunich(500,000 volumes), theMunich
University Library (350,000 volumes), theMunichStadtbibliothek (80,000 volumes), the Munich
Benedictine Library (120,000 volumes), theMnsterUniversity Library (360,000 volumes),