The sharp sword of censorship is always hanging over the neck of the media, and it has been cut so much that only a thin layer of skin and bone is left. But it is enough to cause complaints about the sword, which is wielded by government and ruling censors, and no one dares to speak out against it. These censors are only interested in securing their own personal and group interests within the media.

Governments and their supervisors always find thousands of excuses and ways to restrict the media. One day, they use national interests as an excuse to censor writings, and another day, they give permission to the censors to strike and harm the hands and feet of the press. These excuses have become so common that some media groups and journalists have adopted the same mindset as the censors, limiting the space for writing and narrow thinking.

Internalization of censors in line with national interests

National interests and their protection, under any type of clothing, whether real or symbolic, defensive or covering, serve as a one-sided means to preserve and safeguard the limited or even widespread interests that have been given a national name. This gives the creators and implementers the power and ability to push the rights of others to the margins. In these margins, one can even find the right to knowledge and the cycle of free information. These titles usually have no external equivalent and even their claimants are punished.

This ring of pressures and outside-the-law and rule checkpoints, which by fate are always present with us, have had such heavy costs in recent years that the censors have been forced to take on respectable titles within the editorial boards and then within individuals. For every word and letter and point, before writing, it is necessary to weigh it on the scale of that same line, and if the weight is equal on both sides, then it can be published. Repeated filters constantly question the right to know. Knowing will no longer have a meaning, but those interests that have now become hierarchical, ranked, and transformed from unconscious to a combination of self and unconscious. Each one has its own specific reasons for its own filtering, but the content remains. In the midst of this, the type of survival for the audience has no room for maneuver and the concept of knowing becomes completely meaningless for a better life. Although this cycle does not bring the level of demands to zero, just as the censors have

Self-censorship, remaining bones in the throat.

The restriction of media and press and the suppression of the fourth pillar of democracy has never been a slogan, but it has always been an external, political message that has never been more important. The term censorship has become synonymous with a government that, with various assumptions and with the aim of maintaining its own power, tries to cover up, eliminate, and manipulate news and information, and opens or closes channels of information based on its own interests. Or even the arrows are directed towards the media that, with the same goal and only with a different cover, are implementing and internalizing censorship, but these arrows and messages have never been directed towards the inside. If the first one is spoken in international forums and is definitely reflected in rankings, the second one remains at the level of warnings and whispers, although the result of both is the same. Although in the end, news becomes the gatekeeper and passes through the filter. The only difference is that in the first one, it is called national interests,

This is how it goes, one person suddenly wears a righteous outfit and the other becomes unsuccessful. The first one has reached a media position and knows well how to maintain their status and position. Here, if some people come who have respect and closeness with the media, writing and reading is their goal and they have thousands of tricks to bypass censorship and censors. Many more have come to tie their own burden and also demand from fate. The first group, if they obtain information to publish and fulfill the people’s right to know, the second group obtains information to threaten and secure their short-term and long-term interests. And they pass the time. Although both groups pass the time, the second group passes it with more ease.

Censors, no matter how they enter, ultimately manipulate the media and profit for themselves. External censors have been criticized for years and it is constantly emphasized that they have their foot on the throat of the media and there is little hope for reform. In different periods, the severity and intensity of their actions may vary, but the second type of censors, who are like a bone stuck in the throat, are growing day by day and expanding, and there is still no unity to fight against them and remove this blade and bone.

Although the appearance and interests of censors may vary, they at least agree on one thing: the rights and privileges of the audience. In both perspectives, the audience has the right to know based on their desires and needs. In essence, the audience is passive in both perspectives, like a liquid that takes the shape of any container and is devoid of any feedback, reaction, or demand. Ultimately, the audience and the media are just pawns in the game, moving between censors and passing from hand to hand.