What is the purpose of censorship?

 The purpose of censorship is to filter out some things that are deemed to be explicit, it is used so mass audiences do not see explicit content and so younger generation are not seeing things they shouldn't be.

Hayes Code : Motion Picture Production Code was a set of rules that censorship guidelines followed. It was released by major studios from 1930 to 1968. It is also mostly known as the Hays Code, after Hollywood's chief censor of the time, Will H. Hays. The Motion Pictures Producers and Distributors of America (MPPDA), which later became the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), adopted the code in 1930, it was enforced in 1934, and abandoned in 1968. It was used to say what was acceptable and what wasn't. But was scrapped in 1968 for MPPA film rating system that we still follow now.

What wasn't acceptable in the Hayes code

1. Selling drugs
2. sex perversion
3. White slavery
4. Sex relationships between the white and black races
5. Scenes of childbirth
6. Children's sex organs
7. The use of the flag in a bad way
8. Arson
9. Firearms
10. Theft, robbery, safe-cracking, and dynamiting of trains, mines, buildings, etc.
11. Brutality and possible gruesomeness
12. Technique of committing murder
13. Methods of smuggling
14. Sympathy for criminals
15. Attitude toward public characters
16. Apparent cruelty to children and animals
17. Branding of people or animals
18. Prostitution
19. Rape or attempted rape
20. Man and woman in bed together
21. Surgical operations

Now days most off this I have seen in the media, this is because after Hayes code the media put it in the media so much that it became normal, Now it is nothing when we see it and is seen as normal in a movie. Nearly every action movie has Firearms. The media puts this in and now we know its there but don't really think it shouldn't be there as we are used to seeing guns in action film and without it, it would seem boring as we are not used to seeing them without.

Music videos are mostly girls running and dancing around half naked but the first few started doing it and then most off music videos do it now and it is seen as normal, even though it sends the wrong image out to the younger generation we still watch it. Rihanna is most little girls favourite singer but in her new music video she is half naked but the younger generation is used to seeing this. but I believe this is wrong and they shouldn't show video's like this till after 8pm.