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After looking at various sources to look up more on this issue, I fail to see how censorship can be justified to prevent sensitive material from reaching teens nowadays.

As young people approach puberty, we tend to feel the need to explore curiosities further - no matter what we access or how we do it just because we need to know. We also feel the need to find out as our own friends have known it too - on purpose, or from other consenting adults such as video store owners or bloggers. It is not just a matter of peer pressure - everyone has a certain degree of free will, and whether you feel the need to push oneself to find out is completely out of the control of censorships to try and do so.

Even more so, it is VIRTUALLY IMPOSSIBLE to try and make an effective filter for any sensitive material. Sexual innuendos are always around as the majority public will always find material mentioning taboos such as sexuality and machismo funny. Advertising uses sexually attractive models to prove their product's worthiness, and many authors feel the need to mention sensitive material in their novels to arouse further thinking or allow young people to connect with their writing.

Basing censorship due to religious or cultural differences also do not work at all. Western societies nowadays are seen as very liberal and their journalists enjoying much freedom of the press - in reality, it was Western sensibilities that led to their colonies to adopt Western-style values and morals, and journalists are arrested everyday for publishing sensitive issues seen as "negative" and "demoralising" to the government or the nation. You can also find a surprising amount of backlash to a nation's attempts at censoring anything - for example Indonesia recently passed a bill BANNING PORNOGRAPHY and all related material, and in a nation of over 250 million Muslims, many artists, scholars and tourist organisations believed that this bill was too general and would therefore block access to related articles such as sexual education or even nude Balinese statues! Where do we - the youth of today come in all of this? I don't even think we have much to say nowadays, as we are still being treated as illiterate children.