Censorship

Censorship is a removal of content that is deemed to contain adult content, graphic images, sexual content etc. One of the biggest forms of Censorship is watershed. The watershed serves as a dividing line. It tends to divide both day and night where family orientated programme's will be played in the day and adult contemporary screenings will be played after 21:00pm. They came up with this time divide because most children may be asleep at this time, so on the other hand t will be protected from this imitating stuff that could lead young people to crime, murder etc. Some people strongly debate an alternative answer towards the watershed and that is a pin code. A pin code is a good alternative because it works reasonably well with Sky and it does protect some young children from either being haunted or imitated. However the pin code can sometimes be un-reliable because if the parents do not cover the Sky remote when they are typing in a pin to watch a programme that they believe their child can watch; the child may have a slight chance of figuring out the pin and then it will kind metaphorically open up adult contemporary programme's for him to watch during the day that may lead him to do bad things in public such as being racist or committing crime. Young children are able to watch adult contemporary programme's during the day because Sky also offer On Demand and Catch up TV, so from these two facts young children will be able o access adult contemporary show played in the past and then all they have to do is put in the pin and then they access the programme just like that. On the other hand because of this fact Sky do show a warning on the majority of TV programme's, these specific warnings will show what this programmes includes as an example sexual content. However they can't determine if or if not they will click off of the programme because most people full know if they see a programme they might like they will not stop watching despite the adult contemporary content that may be included in the TV programme. And this is one of the reasons why people get in serious debate about Censorship and protecting children from these imitating programme's. Therefore there are some benefits of watershed as well and some of these are it does not waste people's time by having to put a pin in because they could miss part of the programme, however by it not requiring a pin it could teach children bad things. Another disadvantage of watershed is that some people might work nigh shifts so if they do not have On Demand etc, they will miss there programme that they really wanted to watch.

An example of Censorship would be some of The Simpsons episodes are rated a 12 and some are rated PG. So logically due to watershed and Sky they will choose to screen the 12 rated Simpsons episode's after 21:00pm, this on the other hand will protect children from watching explicit content on TV. However watershed on the other hand does not require a pin so young children will be able access this explicit programme. And Sky on the other hand requires a pin so I think Sky is a lot more protective towards children because it requires a pin and despite that pin number might be easy to figure out to most children they are still trying to protect them. And on some TV programme's that are shown on Sky show a warning before the TV programme stats playing. However some explicit programme's have a marathon day of loads of episodes as an example a TV series called Catfish and this show's people being tricked on Social Media by a fake person that they may develop feelings for however they are not real. In my conclusion Censorship is fairly taken care of by Sky, watershed etc. But some young children are still accessing adult contemporary programme's and I think we need to minor the amount of young children watching these types of programmes soon because as I said it could lead them to crime etc.