Censorship In The 21st Century

That Snapchat you just sent could have been seen by the government. In our society, we are constantly being monitored and censored to eliminate ideas the government doesn’t want to be available to the public. In George Orwell’s 1984 there are multiple instances of supervision and censorship that are also found in today’s society. The idea of monitoring ideas and changing them through restriction is similar to censorship in the 21st Century is similar to 1984 because of the ideas of suppression of the media, art/music, and film.
One way we are censored in modern times is through art and music. If art/music has nudity, explicit language, or something controversial in it, it might be censored by the government. A topical example of this is the “free the nipple” campaign. Many women are protesting their right to be topless in art, at the beach, when it’s hot outside a, just like men have the opportunity to be topless without judgment. In an article about art censorship today it says, “But the greater offense is that, since that time, censorship of art in popular culture has not declined; it has intensified and expanded.” (Dority 36). Many people think that the acceptance of “explicit” material in art has become more
In media, the internet can tell what a country is thinking and is an important example of censorship in today’s society. On the internet, Google and Facebook are monitoring what people see so that the search results are later censored based on a person’s search history. Not only the internet is being censored, but art, literature, and music are being censored to eliminate explicit ideas. As our society gets even more obsessed with technology, the idea of censorship is getting easier to achieve. Not only could your Snapchat be seen by the government, as we become more technologically advanced it could be changed and censored by