Censorship has been used in many ways and in many forms from past to present. Propaganda, a form of censorship, has been used by governments during both war and peace times, in order to manipulate the public to a particular view. Some countries censor whole books just for the reason that it supposedly undermines the authority of the regime it has established, and has prohibited people from doing, seeing, or reading, certain things. Songs have been edited for their suggestive and offensive lyrics. Yet still today censorship lives on. Censorship is primarily the restriction of a person's freedom. It can be broken down into predominately two parts. These two parts consist of whether the idea, concept, religion, book, etc... in question should be banned all together, or merely adapted to fit the challengers' desires.

Throughout the years, art has always been heavily challenged by many groups of people...