...troops were helping, but were now the cause of further damage in Vietnam. The more the people saw the violence occurring in Vietnam, the more their view changed about the war efforts of the United States. this cause less support for the United States and instead supported the anti-war movements.Information in North Korea is heavily filtered and misinterpreted. Almost everything we use in our day to day life is unheard of in North Korea. lots of media circulating in North Korea revolves around Propaganda. Saudi Arabia censors anything that talks bad on their country or or the Islamic religion. In 2011 Saudi Arabia passed a new law telling Bloggers and online writers to register for a license to continue their online entries. Still, no matter what people still break the law even turning to the black market for something to listen to or something to read. Human beings thrive to learn and to create new ideas, I don't think that censorship will ever stop. One thing I do know, is that people will always try to find a way to get the truth and censorship won't stop...
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...Paul Lee Professor Askren English 100 March 7, 2012 Censorship Suppression of information and ideas by anyone, whether it be government officials, writers, or artists, censorship is what blankets the world from seeing what the truth really is. Media and ads in various forms are forced to be careful what they air to the public. With the growth of technology and the expansion of resources available via the Internet: Email, World Wide Web, and Video-Chatting, the amount of censorship throughout the world has increased drastically over the years. Every nation on Earth has a certain form of censorship that ranges from the extreme to the not so extreme. The United States and most European nation’s censorship level is the least compared to that of other countries. Nations where foundations are shaky and don’t have a strong central government is where censorship really takes it tolls. Countries like DPRK (North Korea), Pakistan, Burma, Syria, Cuba, Iran, and China must abide by what the dictator wants the people to see and not, by the use of extreme bias. Along with the international community and its government using censorship, the decision of censoring something can also be made by an individual aside from the government. Individuals that might be biased with is or her own thoughts. Censorship decisions might be illogical, unfair, unconstitutional, or in some cases just immoral. People tend to want to censor everything that they personally don’t tend to agree with. Corporations...
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...Televisions’ historical role in the Vietnam War created opportunities for reporters and journalists to take up the role of a historian, as they presented the facts through a medium that proved of great influence to the American public. Its impact boils down to two aspects: the visual element and its ability to focus on the negative, generating a new form of evidence. Almost immediately after Johnson’s decision to escalate, reports began to take a negative slant. The already tumultuous relationship between the US government and the media further exacerbated following the the Cam Ne incident in August 1965, in which in a CBS news correspondent Morley Safer reported US soldiers using cigarette lighters to burn huts in a small village. Johnson’s...
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...some form of censorship over the conduct and opinions of its members… Good morning teachers and students. Censorship by the government infringes upon the rights of the individual and inhibits freedom of expression. Now, censorship is a broadly used term so what exactly IS censorship? Well, censorship is defined by the Australian Macquarie Dictionary as ‘the actions of a censor – that is, an official who examines books, plays, news reports, films, radio programs (and more recently the internet), for the purpose of suppressing parts deemed objectionable on moral, political, military or other grounds’. Censorship has been around since the beginning of time. It has been used as a tool to control what others have access to. In Australia today, we are supposedly guaranteed the rights of freedom of speech and freedom of the press by our constitution. Yet censorship still exists. We are told censorship is necessary, but at what cost? National security and public interest, are these valid reasons? Why must the government decide what is best for me to read or watch in a cinema or in the privacy of my own home? Sure, we must protect our youth, but that is a parent's responsibility, not the government's. I can understand censorship based upon national security; we can't go around selling all of our secrets without a major threat to our government and our way of life. Censorship is a way of controlling the population. This is exactly why we have laws that forbid random censorship. Some censorship...
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...Subject Name: | Issues in International Business | Location & Campus (SGS or HN) where you study: | RMIT Vietnam | Title of Assignment: | Case study Assignment | Student name: | Tran Tuan Hoang | Student Number: | 3463819 | Teachers Name: | Thanapat Kijbumrung | Group Number: | 1 | Assignment due date: | 18/12/2015 | Date of Submission: | 18/12/2015 | Number of pages including this one: | 9 | Word Count: | 2339 | RMIT International University Vietnam Bachelor of Business Program Assignment Cover Page GOOGLE STRUGLING TO SURVIDE THE ETHICAL ISSUSES IN CHINA I. Introduction Google is the company who provide a wide range of services to both normal consumers and business. They are best known from their search engine while incorporating with other online technologies such as Gmail and Google chrome. While being one of the top company in the world, Google seem to be struggling when operating in China – the country with the largest number of internet user. Though Google is popular with their motto “Don’t be evil”, they were struggling to adapt with Chinese policy toward certain areas such as censorship and certain actions from the government toward Google prevented it from competing with Baidu –their local competitors. Consequently, Google officially leave china and redirect to Hong Kong in order to escape from the censorship of Chinese government in 2010. This report will analyze certain ethical issues occurred between Google.cn...
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...and censorship is a driving force behind a regimes ability to control the masses, and they use it to relay message that the regimes want their people to know. Another use of the media is for indoctrination, or the spreading of ones beliefs or wishes. Indoctrination is a full-fledged effort of controlling an entire population into firmly believing in a leaders desire. Hitler’s message of Anti-Semitism is major example of a leaders ability to control how a population thinks. Media can also be used for public policy, but some leaders use different methods of using it to show public support. In Vietnam elections are held for the legislature where anyone is allowed to run, but the central party runs their own candidates wherever they please to maintain control of the land. This public policy help to reassure trust in the regime from ordinary citizens, and is another example of why some dictators enjoy having public support rather then never asking for...
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...Censorship There’s a great controversy as to whether or not censorship is a necessity in order to maintain a particular moral standard. To understand why censorship has been acquired in music, we must first know what it exactly means. Censorship is counterintelligence achieved by banning or deleting any information of value to the enemy. For the dabblers, this is the act of censoring; examining books, film, music, etc., and suppressing unacceptable parts. An example of censoring would be “clean” or “non-explicit” versions of the original product. These versions have a reputation to provide 0-prfantity or sexual inappropriate actions. (Lombardi, 2009.) The “Parental Advisory” label is used wherever needed to warn listeners what they’re about to hear contains indecent content not suitable for younger listeners, or those who don’t approve of it. There’s a reason for everything, so why did censorship start? In 1927, The United States Congress enacted The Radio Act, to bring order to the chaos of radio broadcasting and basically a route for the government to control the content being broadcasted. Rules and regulations have changed, but the basis still remains; whatever is offensive will be blocked. (Censorship of Music, 2014.) My chosen book for the history of Censorship is The Hunger Games; a science fictional novel which introduces sixteen-year old Katniss Everdeen who lives in a post-apocalyptic world in the country of Panem where North America once stood, and now split into...
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...Executive Summary This report explores the question of what role the United States (U.S.) television media played in forming public opinion on the Vietnam War. The research, based on reviewing other primary and secondary sources, shows various opposing theories regarding this subject. Firstly, that television media was blamed for the U.S. loss in Vietnam. As Vietnam was the first televised war, it was argued that television swayed public support for the war by projecting the footage of conflict into the lounge rooms of Americans. One counter-theme showed that other factors such as opposition to the prolonged war and military policy were more likely to have changed public opinion. This report discusses how television media during the Vietnam war was just one aspect of how the public would have formed an opinion on such a complex issue, however concludes that further research is required to arrive at a definitive argument on such a controversial topic. Research Question This report explores what role the media played in forming public opinion within the U.S., regarding America’s involvement in the Vietnam War. The research is particularly focused on the level of influence the introduction of television journalism had on forming public opinion during the war efforts. Escalation of U.S. involvement from aid to major deployment within Vietnam began after the Gulf of Tonkin incident in 1964 (Gifford 2007, p. 18). This period also saw television established as a mass medium across homes...
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...purposes of embedding, how embedding raises concerns with the First Amendment’s entitlements, and finally questioning the notion that embedded journalism decreases censorship and increases access. In order to understand the current iteration of embedded journalism, we must understand our nations history of war correspondents and their relations with soldiers (Mayfield, 2013). The history between the military and the media lays the foundation for embedded journalism and serves as a reminder that the absence of censorship in past wars provided the impact on todays embedded program into Iraq (Brandenburg, 2007). Military-media relations have been building up over time, it originated with the earliest correspondents in 1850 and today expands through British, French, and American military engagement with the media (Mayfield, 2013). It wasn’t until the second half of the twentieth century that America began utilizing their media to report on current warfare’s. However, journalistic freedom on war coverage became a target of criticism from political and military leaders shortly after the Vietnam War in 1973 and the first Gulf war in 1991. Forty years ago, the ending of the Vietnam War had concluded with a victory, and the start of Americas broadcasting phenomenon had just shifted into drive. As quickly as the Vietnam battle had been lost, news coverage was...
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...The Culture of Terrorism The thesis of this paper is that the attacks of 9/11 were the catalysts of a world culture of terrorism that is used by propaganda and censorship to blur the politics of globalization and technology, and restructure a totalitarian society. This paper will argue that the businesses of “the U.S. media shill factory” (Borjesson, 2004, p.165), the plottings of the “brand based” (Klein, 2000, P.421) corporations, and the multi-national oil giants influence sectors of government by using deliberate strategies of censorship and propaganda to discredit government effectiveness, alienate populations, and seize control. What is the correlation between censorship and propaganda? “Intelligent men must realize that propaganda is the modern instrument by which they can fight for productive ends and bring order out of chaos” (Bernays, 1928, p.168). Censorship is the “suppression of information, whether purposeful or not, by any method-including bias, omission, underreporting or censorship-that prevents the public from understanding what is happening in society” (Borjesson, 2004, p.419). Since there are different kinds of information or knowledge in society that need to be forbidden because they are harmful to certain groups or to the moral understanding of ethics (i.e. the use of drugs, pornography, assault weapons), what rationale legitimizes suppressed information as forbidden? The principle is “to bring order out of chaos” by using propaganda, “the conscious...
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.....The man who had tapped his answer was applying an alcoholic swab. Oh god he thought I know what that means don’t do it please...Oh god he thought they won’t let me talk. They won’t even listen to me anymore” (Trumbo 237-238). Joe’s request to go outside was to display himself in front of people, to inform them the realities of war. What newspapers and press don’t show are due to fear of people enlisting knowing the truth. Doctors silencing Joe not only silence him but also the public. Their ability to keep any images or information of what war is, prevents riots and protests. Irum Abbasi’s “Media Censorship: Freedom versus Responsibility” explain the global phenomenon of media censorship. Access to media is not always easy; certain media (television, internet, print, etc.) are sometimes in the control of the government. The authors explains “Information coup through censorship is the first line of action against an imminent threat to a...
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...regarding “Censorship of the Internet”, explain how Censorship can work in some instances but in others it can be a detriment to society. Introduction Since electronic devices such as computer, smart phone and tablet have generalised and the number of internet users is getting bigger, internet contains tremendous amount of information from trivial one to even significant information that could occur a social problem. Every information is exposed through the internet and people could touch those information easily. As these reasons, government wants to control and monitor the internet access in many nations, including North Korea, Iraq, China, Myanmar, Syria, Turkey, Vietnam, Uzbekistan, Maldives, and Tunisia so on. This, government control or suppression of what can be gain access to, distributed, or watched on the internet, is called internet censorship. The definition of internet censorship is a way used by government or religious institutions to supervise or regulate the public access to offensive or harmful materials (Turban, 2012) This topic is very sensitive subject to decide whether it should exist or not. There is a sharp division of belief between people who approve and disapprove. This report is going to illustrate how the censorship works by some method, why the internet censorship is necessary, and the disadvantages of internet censorship, finally it talks about examples and current situation of internet censorship in the world. Necessity of internet censorship ...
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...In “Sweetheart of Song Tra Bong,” the animalistic imagery of the hootch and Mary Anne’s rugged outer appearance are used to represent the fake, almost calm exterior image that was presented of the Vietnam War to the public. In the hut, Rat smelled two distinct smells: “There was a topmost scent of joss sticks and incense, like the fumes of some exotic smokehouse, but beneath the smoke lay a deeper and much more powerful stench. Impossible to describe, Rat said. It paralyzed your lungs” (104-105). The smell of incense was man-made, masking the natural smell in the room. That smell is described as “the stink of the kill” (105). These smells parallel the war. The media was much like the smell of incense, but masked what was truly going on in the streets rather than a...
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...Lyric Censorship: Language is Power Words create powerful emotions in all of us. They are used to express our feelings, thoughts and ideas, as well as communicate with one another. There are countless examples in history where we see language equating power. Within those examples we see people in the position of power, using this power of language to degrade their enemies and those they consider beneath them, and shape language in their favor. Music ties into language completely. The words of song lyrics convey powerful messages. As language is power, those in control seek to repress the power of this language in music, attempting to keep the power in their favor. But this attempt at censorship only gives those words even more influence and any attempt to infringe our right to free speech should be fought for to prevent its loss. The censorship of lyrics has occurred globally and can be dated back as far as music and poetry can be traced. Let’s take Asia as an example. Under the ruling of the Taliban in Afghanistan, music became a crime (Korpe, 2004). Instruments were burned, and people were severely punished for singing or creating any kind of music that was not deemed acceptable by the government. In Kabal, President Rabbani went as far as to create an Office for the Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice, which was used to regulate the lyric of song in the favor of the government, and punish those who spoke ill towards those in power. In Pakistan...
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...Final Draft | John Prathammavong 9/9/2012 | Thailand, Philippines, China, and Indonesia are different nations that have grown with technology and culture due to western society. Technology makes our lives as people more efficient and for these countries a change from traditional ways of lives. The workforce of these countries and culture change with adaptation to what technology they are exposed to in life. Venture capitalists and consumers have their ways to expand business with technology in these countries and affect lives in good and bad ways. There are always ups and downs to everything and technology has its glitches too. There are even some of the best hackers but have been caught that come from the Philippines. Thailand, Vietnam, China, and Philippines are some countries that will open their first Payless shoe operation recently due to some of our western culture. Technology and its culture have made some lives more civilized within these countries. Technology is a universal language that people all over the world may use that has access and is able to communicate. There are many opportunities for capitalist to expand businesses in countries such as these because of many reasons. One it is cheap, cheap labor, and chance to broaden business overseas. There are good and bad reasons with everything as in some people benefit and others pay for it in a negative way. Technology has its negativity where there is little one on one relationship. It’s all based on video or...
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