What Rug Thinks

What is censorship? Why do we feel the need to censor out certain topics? What good does censorship accomplish? These questions and more answered from my point of view in today's What Rug Thinks . (cue applause) Borrowed from NCAC.org  (Worth a read) Google defines censorship as "the practice of officially examining books, movies, etc., and suppressing unacceptable parts." Which seems to agree with the way most people tend to think of it. However, sometimes definitions are a little weak in how they are stated. Therefore, to put into common language. Censorship is the act of removing content based on the view of acceptability. Which of course brings to mind. What is acceptable?  Google defines acceptable in this usage as "able to be tolerated or allowed." This whole thing seems to boil down to what someone finds offensive and not offensive. Well, that seems to be a load of crap. Most people find anything they don't agree with to be offensive. Instead of...

You may remember not that long ago about people trying to get Harry Potter and Lord Of The Rings removed from libraries, cinemas, store shelves, and anywhere else these items could be obtained. Rather it be in literary or cinematic form. You have probably heard of such things as book burnings. You have probably even heard some books referred to "satanic". I'm going to point out just how ridiculous the whole idea really is. Provided by Everynight Teen  (Interesting Article) Harry Potter was a great series of books that were well written, humorous, captivating, and a magical struggle between good and evil. Sadly, the movies did not do justice to these works of art. There are some people that say these books "promote witchcraft" and should be banned. To even have this as an objection to the books in the first place, the people must think magic is real. These books are labeled as fiction because it's fake. If you can't tell the difference between ficti...

George Carlin listed  7 dirty words  people can't say on TV way back in 1972. The original Home Box Office (now known as HBO) special the same year had two warnings about how vulgar the special was. One at the beginning of the show and one right before he went into the 7 dirty words section of his stand up. He ended up getting arrested at one point for doing this standup. Why do people care so much about what artist say? Why do people consider certain words as bad? Why do people care what words we use? I don't get it, and here is why. Borrowed from Vsauce (Great Videos) While looking through some cd's at the store, I saw that many of them had a Parental Advisory label on them. Then there was some of the same album that didn't have these stickers on them. I got to wondering what the differences were between these two otherwise identical albums. I soon found out that the one without the label was edited to remove offensive language. I almost bought one by mista...