Censorship can never be justified?

Can censorship ever be justifiable? I believe it could be.

Firstly, censorship is justifiable in the act of preventing unwanted information from spilling out to the public. For example, in the Iraq War, the deaths of the soldiers fighting on the frontlines are all heavy covered up. The bodies if any are recovered and sent back to their families. No word is passed out to the public, except to the families. This is done to keep the morale of the people back in USA up. Though this may seem inhumane to a certain extent, looking it from another angle, they are doing this to keep a brave front so that the people will not see themselves as being governed by a weak government and thus lose faith in them. Faith is very important for a government as without the peoples support, they will inevitably crumble.

Secondly, censorship is used to prevent unpleasant and unethical stuffs from reaching us. Pornography, racist remarks, propaganda and vulgarities, to name a few are all unwanted. Stuff like this can be taken out from newspaper and radios before it can reach the people. That way, people can be protected by these ‘evil’

Well, though now everyone is talking about freedom of speech and how censorship should be banned, eliminated and the whole idea of it thrown away. I have to agree that freedom of anything one wants to do is important in this modern contest. But as always, there would be people who do not have any regards for the dignity of others. As such it would still be essential to have someone to look over it and to edit it if need be to prevent backlash from public communities. This is the same as censorship.

Thus, censorship is justifiable as like it or not, it has a purpose to serve. the community.