The goal of this blog is to inform Americans that censorship is real. It affects all of us. It affects us and we do not even know about it. It is a violation on our liberties to free speech. Furthermore the government initiates censorship, takes away our rights. Granted, these statements are admittedly radical, but it seems that a majority of my fellow Americans are deaf to the censored voice that does not reach them. Of course they are. Finding details about censorship is difficult when the only information some Americans receive is from the censors themselves.
The problem presented is that Americans do not acknowledge censorship, do not realize that it affects them, even in mundane ways. This issue affects society. If there are countries with freer speech than America, are we free? If there are countries with freer democracies than America's, are we free?
For Americans who want to change this, inaction needs to turn to action. We need to make known this fact, make known infringements on our access to free speech, make known we are not as free we believe. This is the goal of our blog, the information may be “pointless,” but that is what makes censorship all the more real. If pointless and trivial media is censored, what else is?
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