What is the right balance to strike between freedom of and restrictions upon artistic expression?

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Dictionaries commonly define the concept of censorship as a reality that certain texts (especially books), images, films or shows should be banned. Censorship is a form of regulation, created by the law, wherein books, letters, films, and other works of art have to be submitted to an examination to a qualified jury to remove any work that is considered as offensive, particularly shocking, morally harmful or politically dangerous. It can also include age restrictions. These restrictions are imposed by the state to present to the citizens content that is not morally degenerating and politically disturbing. However, there is a hue and cry over the censorship process from the side of the artists. They argue that it is the right of any artist to express his thoughts and therefore, artistic expression must be absolutely free. Hence, the right balance needs to be attained between freedom and restrictions upon artistic expression.

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[...] But on the other side, we can't deny that censorship limits the freedom of (artistic) expression, which is one of the fundamental human rights. In theory, an artist is someone who can express his feelings without any prejudice. Restricting this freedom of expression is as killing the nature of art because it acts as a brake on the creation. In conclusion, we can say that the right balance is to let the artists express their feelings as they want, as long as it doesn't offense people or commit the moral: artists' liberty stops where people's freedom starts (their right not to be morally hurt). [...]

[...] What is the right balance to strike between freedom of and restrictions upon artistic expression? Dictionaries commonly define the concept of censorship as the fact that certain texts (especially books), images, films or shows should be banned. Censorship is a form of regulation (the more often by a law): books, letters, films etc, have to be submitted to an examination to remove any work that is considered as offensive, particularly shocking, morally harmful or politically dangerous. It can also include age restrictions. [...]

[...] Art is a form of free speech and, consequently, must be submitted to the same restrictions. In addition, restrictions upon artistic expression can be a tuned system of protecting children. For example, certain images must only be seen by people of a certain age, as certain images of erotic art which might be unsuitable for children (despite of their artistic merits). So censorship is there to prevent the artists hurting the sentiments of the people to whom the art is presented. [...]