The focus in this article is on the mood of restriction in a strong connotation. This writer talks about how censorship has taken many tolls on the world and how it shows in history and in a wide variety of settings. The author’s target is trained on the instances where censorship was viewed as oppression and ill intent. In this article, the writer uses pathos which specifically labels fear as bad and tie this negative thing to the idea of censorship which automatically puts censorship in the “bad” category. There are words such as “avoid challenges” “not a real democracy” “close down arguments” as well as the claim of censorship occurring only “when we are fearful of opening an important discussion”(Witherbee,
The focus in this article is on the mood of restriction in a strong connotation. This writer talks about how censorship has taken many tolls on the world and how it shows in history and in a wide variety of settings. The author’s target is trained on the instances where censorship was viewed as oppression and ill intent. In this article, the writer uses pathos which specifically labels fear as bad and tie this negative thing to the idea of censorship which automatically puts censorship in the “bad” category. There are words such as “avoid challenges” “not a real democracy” “close down arguments” as well as the claim of censorship occurring only “when we are fearful of opening an important discussion”(Witherbee,