It is too bad when a country has to restrict access to information so its citizens cannot be influenced by the outside world or be reminded by its past civil rights violations. I am not talking about a government restricting top secret information from the public. Especially if revealing that information can help the enemy and/or harm the countries defenses. I am talking about Iran cutting the Internet speeds to homes and cafes because they don't want its population to be Western influenced. What's worse is that Iran completely banned satellite TV. What is the government of Iran afraid of? Are they afraid the citizens are going to hear the truth on Fox News about their leader for example. The leader of Iran cannot let that happen.
China is not any better. They censored any references of the Tiananmen Square protesters on the Internet and the gov't censored other web sites they did not approve of.
I should say true censorship can only be done by a government because it makes the laws. If a store does not want to sell a product for whatever reason that is not censorship. It has the right to choose what to sell. You can still buy the product somewhere else. Now if a government bans the product being sold--that is restricting the populations options of buying the product somewhere else in the country. The same goes with a homeowner. (S)he has a right to restrict any item in the home that his/her child brings into the home as long as the child is under 18 or living under the parent's roof.
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You answered yourself in last sentence. One very important task of any government should be to protect their peoples from moral vices too... If not then result are disintegrated family and moral values like in most developed democratic governments..
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