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Essay / TV Advertising Censorship - 1611
It's a Saturday afternoon and you're sitting in your living room where you've just finished watching your favorite episode of Seinfeld. Shortly after the credits, a commercial appears. As you watched, you noticed that it was the Chrysler commercial that everyone at work was talking about. The ad shows a little fairy flying around, waving her wand and magically changing whatever she points at into something pretty. While the fairy is flying, the new Dodge Magnum drives by and the fairy drives off after the vehicle trying to use her powers on it. The fairy's powers backfire and throw her against a brick wall and then to the ground. A young punk thug walks up with his pit bull tied to a chain, pointing at her and mocking her saying, stupid fairy. The fairy looks up and waves her wand at him and poof, the young man's baggy clothes have been changed to a pair of plaid shorts with a polo shirt and a pink candy tied around his neck. After the guy looked at himself, he said "Awa" in a very high pitched voice. A few months later, you re-watch the ad and notice that it has been edited by removing the part of the ad where the young man says stupid fairy. The next day, everyone at work also noticed the change to the ad. This ad shows that there is censorship on television. I believe that censoring controversial television advertisements is an unfair practice, one that violates the First Amendment to the Constitution. The First Amendment to the Constitution states: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or restricting the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of people to peacefully assemble and seek redress from the government or grievances” (Constitution of the United States of America, 1st Amendment) In the United States of America, we have rights that were put in place to help protect. the people and our government against ourselves One of the most important rights that was put in place by our founding fathers to help make our nation stronger by speaking our minds without fear of persecution is the freedom to. free speech is the first amendment to the United States Constitution. As for our rights to broadcast controversial television advertisements, is this part of our rights as a citizen of the United States of America...