Censorship

Q: Is art that is offensive or immoral suitable to be supported with our tax money? You must refer to actual cases such as Mapplethorpe and the national endowment for the arts (NEA).

Ans: The purpose of censorship is always to stop someone from saying, printing, or depicting something that is seen as dangerous or which threatens societal norms. Censors seek to place limits on words, images, ideas, symbols, signs, books, music, and art. The danger in censorship is that the censor sets herself up as the judge of what is permissible and what is not. When government acts as censor by ...