Monday, December 10, 2007
Poetry Banned?
As i was surfing the internet trying to find a current issue related to censorship, i stumbled on to a website that was an archive of all the poems that have been banned from America Online. Of all the things that i have heard of, that should be censored, poetry is not one of them. The website posted comments from the author, and then the poem. Some of the poems had been edited from their original form. I found it amusing that some of the authors thought it was kind of funny that their poem had been banned over the use of a few common expletives that people use every day. What i want to know is, if people are censoring something as typical and unthreatening as poetry, what else are they censoring? If a few bad words give someone the right to remove a form of expression from the internet i believe that that is a step in the wrong direction towards an uncensored world.
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It seems particularly strange to hear of this on the Internet-- after all, you can find just about anything on here!
Wow i didn't know about this.. It seems very dumb that they are worried about some poems and not other harmfully things to humans like cigarette's adds.
You know maybe poetry was banned because the people who banned it were afraid of the power of poetry. Perhaps it posed a threat towards what they were trying to "teach"
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