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Is Censorship ever justified and what this means to you, the author.
Postscript and Prelogue
Postscript (to the article in question**) and Prologue (to this one)
Constricting an author's points of view to make more profit from their works; and thwarting truth and realism to increase saleability is counter intuitive to any author's creativity.
The reason ads were disabled on this hub is because of the link provided regarding p----------n in this country (we are not allowed to say this word in public it might be offensive to some readers)
The Article of Censorship**
- Can Legalizing Prostitution Increase Tax Revenues!? Will it benefit or hurt our Economy?
Does man have the right to mandate their own views of morality on society? The age old profession that will never be exterminated. A wonderful source of tax revenue is going untapped.
Controlling the voices, and opinions, of others
Viewer friendly content
An article was recently published on this site that required being ''updated and edited'' (at the behest of H.P.) with the intention of making it more "viewer friendly".
A polite and discretionary explanation was offered as to why this article was not allowed to have ads placed on it by Google.
- Censure-ship by any other name is still Censorship.
Apparently, with the prevailing hypocritical moralistic attitude of the pseudo religious in this country it is deemed best to sweep things under the carpet rather than meet them head on, discuss their relevance, and work together to find a solution to resolve our societal problems.
Some rules to live by
With the new 'rules' imposed by Google the ads may be disabled on this article as well.
(As they subsequently have been).
Apparently, the new rules and regulations are designed to censure subjects that they find ''unsuitable'' for viewing by the 'innocent' and/or 'naive' general public.
In the real world these "censured" subjects are quite common place in every society, as seen every day on the streets, in our schools, theaters, and 24 hours a day on our television sets.
Anyone who thinks they can shield themselves, or their children, from these realities are living in a dream world of fantasy that is promulgated by the narrowness of their religious beliefs.
Advertising is disabled on a hub based on moderator review; when deemed "not suitable for advertising"....which means the hub contains "sensitive subject matter".
- Parenting by Angst | Psychology Today
Why are parents today seemingly so unhappy? By Jacqueline Hudak, M.Ed., Ph.D., LMFT...
"Sensitive" matters
The following are the unsuitable, 'sensitive' matter as described by Google, and reinforced by Hub Pages:
"In partnership with our advertising partners, we've identified below some areas that are not suitable for advertising but that, at our discretion, we may allow to remain published without ads:
1. Reproductive medical content (including vaginal and penile issues and sexually transmitted diseases)
2. Content about sexuality, including losing your virginity, fetish, or LGBT issues
- {body parts that children, or the 'innocent', should never be exposed to}
- Such subjects apparently should be hidden from public view even though they are certainly a realistic part of our society, whether we like it or not.
3. Content about abortion, circumcision, genital mutilation, rape, incest, pedophilia, and molestation.
4. Content describing violent crimes or gruesome accidents
5. Lewd or profane humor, including provocative double entendre
6. Restrained journalistic or fine art nudity."
I don't know about anyone else, but this sure seems like censorship to me. Plain and simple.
It is now official in Texas - critical thinking banned in schools
- Skepticblog » It’s official: Texas GOP bans critical thinking
As skeptics, we all agree that critical thinking is crucial to understanding our world and not making mistakes in thinking and logic that might lead us astray. Most educated people agree that critical thinking is essential in the training of all of u
Puritanical points of view
These are nothing more than puritanical conservative points of view that are not based on any kind of reality in the 'real' world.
I suspect these rules are defined to create hub articles that are more narrowly pointed toward conservative christian right wing values and/or toward articles that are most likely to produce monetary value/profits/ income than they are toward real life venues.
Designed to dissuade people like me who promote, and cherish knowledge, freedom of thought, and equality for every citizen, from spreading my "liberal agenda".
Apparently, there seems to be some validity to the belief that if you "speak" the words "gay", "liberal", "rape", "abortion" and others mentioned above it might be contagious, or at best "un-American".
After all, the new republicans have already banned by legal decree, the word "homosexual" from some schools, and the word "uterus" from being spoken in the House of Representatives, and the banning of critical thinking from schools in Texas.
Soon we will see our prisons being overloaded with those of us to speak the language of liberalism, progression, equality, and freedom.
What is this country turning into?
by: d.william 09/18/2013
© 2013 d.william
