Censorship takes many forms such as blocking, withholding, destroying, altering, or self-censoring information from being read, heard or seen. Examples include a newspaper censoring a photo of a war victim due to nudity, a country banning a book for being too pornographic, suspicions that a political figure altered records of confidential information, and journalists self-censoring due to draconian defamation laws. The purpose of censorship is to control the flow of information and knowledge, but it ultimately undermines credibility and prevents people from making fully informed judgments.

1. Censorship
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2. Definition
Blocking something from being read, heard, or seen.

3. Withholding Information

4. Censoring the terrors of war
The Norwegian newspaper, Aftenposten facebook's page was censor. They
prohibited the photo of Nick Ut’s Pulitzer Prize winning photograph ‘The Terror of
War.
On the claim that facebook, does not allow full nudity of any kind, excluding the
motive behind the picture.
https://www.opendemocracy.net/transformation/ian-mahoney/censoring-terrors-of-
war

5. Destroying Information

6. Malaysia Bans Fifty Shades of Grey
The trilogy of E.L James was banned in Malaysia for being “more pornography
than a movie”.
Here they are trying to hide what this book talks about so they did it by prohibiting
malaysians to read the book.
http://time.com/3697038/fifty-shades-of-grey-malaysia-ban/

7. Altering Information

8. What Hillary Clinton's email scandal is really about,
explained with a cartoon
Hillary Clinton allegedly used a private server to share confidential information.
But her tracks were covered by “hackers” making Clinton even more suspicious.
Altering this information is causing more problems because the real events can’t
come out.
http://www.vox.com/2016/9/19/12941006/clinton-email-scandal-cartoon

9. Self-Censorship

10. Journalists resort to self-censorship after Maldives
passes draconian defamation law
In the second week of August, a 59-year-old resident of Vaavu, an atoll nearly 40
miles to the south of Malé, the capital of the Maldives, went missing. After
preliminary inquiries, the police registered a case and the information was
circulated on a Viber group for the local media.
http://scroll.in/article/814918/journalists-resort-to-self-censorship-after-maldives-
passes-draconian-defamation-law

11. Conclusion
The purpose is this activity was to show us how censorship affects our daily
income of news. As we saw on the activity all media outlets lie, one way or the
other. Altering information, destroying it, or not even saying it. At the end of the
day they are keeping information away from us. That could be use to make a
critical judge about the theme we are reading about. This only makes us doubt the
information they are telling. Making us ask this question every time we read the
news. What are they not telling us?