[Ruth]

I am against censorship, and agree that it is used as a tool to oppress people.

At it's most basic form, it really annoys me when people say, 'this or that should not be on tv/radio, etc'. There's an off button. People should be able to make their choice, and we are extremely lucky that we live in a country where we don't get punished for speaking up for what we believe.

Officialsuperstar - it's quite astounding to people in the UK that censorship takes place. You say that nobody would dare ban your opinion...in some countries, you wouldn't dare express it.

One of my closest friends is a black guy who grew up under the apartheid system in South Africa. Some of the things that were banned there are crazy - one example is the album The Wall, by Pink Floyd. Banned, because of it's content, and it's themes. They didn't people to get ideas into their head. The amount of books that were banned....it makes me count my blessings that we live in a country where we are allowed relatively free speech (I'm not fooling myself that we have completely free speech anywhere in the world).