Our task was to do a little research on the relationship between the state and media, ours being USA. This was a hard task because I always feel like there's some many theories, opinions, truths, conspiracy theories etc. going on and how can I learn all of them in a limited time?! So I trusted my friend Wikipedia among some other sites and took a look at the question assigned for me: How is censorship dealt with?
Everybody has a freedom of speech in America and it's stated in the First Amendment. As far as I understood, even hate speech is allowed to some extent so based on this information, it seems that the US citizens are allowed to speak quite freely. However apparently obscenity and defamation are restricted, meaning that radio shows, movies, songs etc. get censored if there's for example foul language.
Despite being a quite free country, it's still listed on Reporter's Without Borders' list of "Enemies of the Internet". It's a list for countries with highest Internet censorship and surveillance. I didn't fully understand why USA is on the list, but here's a quote from my trusted friend Wikipedia:
"U.S. surveillance practices and decryption activities are a direct threat to investigative journalists, especially those who work with sensitive sources for whom confidentiality is paramount and who are already under pressure."
I couldn't have said it better!
Anyway, as you can probably see, I have no idea what I'm doing. Here's the slides for our presentation (we all just filled our own slides so there wasn't really any process to document presentation-wise):
Happy thoughts,
Oona
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