You turn on the television to watch your favorite late-night television show when you’re instantly blinded by… a fuzzy screen? You look more closely at the television screen when you realize that you don’t need to renew your eyeglass prescription. Instead the television broadcasting company has chosen to censor what it is that they’re showing. Do we want portions of our television shows to be cut out? Research shows that 83% of cable programs not specifically meant for children had some form of sexual content in them. However, how much of this, if any, needs to be filtered from the viewers?

The government has come along and monitored what the citizens of the United States have been watching on television. The government has decided what is good and what is bad. The government has chosen what words we are allowed to hear and what words we cannot. The government has chosen what we can see and what we cannot. How much longer will this madness go on? Is the entire population of the United States so stupid that they cannot monitor their own television watching?

It is true that some children cannot control themselves from watching inappropriate material on television. However, most children have responsible parents for a reason. Some people are old enough to see this material and not get offended by it, but for the benefit of the children, the entertainment of their program gets degraded. If the parents become true parents, they will take enough caution to prevent their children from learning anything that the society shuns. And if the children do happen to see this inappropriate material on television, they learned something new; they were going to learn it eventually, so they might as well learn it now.

So, not only is the government depriving adults of full entertainment, but they are potentially depriving children from their full education. What the kids could learn from television is possibly being filtered by the government. Of course, the government can’t be that idiotic. They would never censor out something that would be beneficial for the children. But who likes Barney these days? Children need a better form of modern education. They need to learn more about the real world. What they learn from educational kids programs doesn’t happen in the real world anymore! It has become a violent community, with over half a million people murdered in only one year.

Of course, this concept is not foreign to anybody that is truly alive today. Everyone has experienced a time when the program they were watching has been filtered by some sort of higher power. It isn’t the government, you say? The government doesn’t directly sift through the programs, but the television broadcasting corporations does. If millions of people see something they shouldn’t, the broadcasting corporation experiences millions of dollars of losses. This frustration that both television viewers and providers experience is unbearable. Is this ever going to stop?

In one way, it is the society’s fault that censorship happens in the first place. The censorship is bringing down the society; however, it is the society that’s causing the censorship. If nobody considered any part of the English language offensive, they would not have to be censored out. If these words replaced by short beeps were not considered offensive, they would not have to be censored out. If we did not consider portions of our own form of communication offensive, nothing would have to be censored out.

So simply, a solution would be to change our own language. This is easier said than done, however. The English language has evolved throughout the centuries that the language has been around. The language is constantly being “modernized,” with new words and phrases added to it all the time. Slang is being constructed as we speak, with new insults being created by the minute. Do we really have the power to stop this?

Together we can change the way the government views the United States population as a whole. Little by little, we can make changes of the aspects the government considers when censoring our material. When we prove that we are mature enough, the censoring may stop. But until then, don’t expect the fuzzy screens to go away.