Censorship in today's society has progressed so much that almost everything is censored: television programs, songs, letters, books, practically everything. The way to prevent these “inappropriate or harmful” comments from appearing publicly has exceeded its purpose and has been overused. In Fahrenheit 451, he portrays a world that has censored itself from reading books banned by the government as a way to intentionally control its citizens to live differently. Citizens live in an alienated world where their form of communication and reality is television. Today's society, much of the world, is austere towards the rest of the world, having different forms of technology as a form of socialism. Nowadays, these are ways that people express their ideas about certain books that they find inappropriate, offensive, unsuitable for a certain age group, unrealistic, etc., banning or challenging books. If it's banned, it's technically “banned” from reading it, so they're taken off the shelves of libraries and schools. The challenge is only an attempt to limit certain materials, but can be banned later ("Top"). From 2000 to 2009, 5,099 (“Top”) challenges were reported. 5,099 books that people thought were shameful and wanted to remove from library and school shelves so students couldn't read them. What some of these parents or teachers don't know is that they are taking away students' freedom of choice and right to do whatever they want. Parents censor the books read by students for unnecessary reasons, so that the student cannot have information about different materials and believe unrealistic situations. In Fahrenheit 451, parents in our society are the government in theirs. They ban books and make it a crime so that society cannot read them. Instead of abusive language or violence, the government in Fahrenheit 451 bans and burns them because it gives citizens a vision of a different world they don't live in. Montag wants to read the books to gain knowledge about the world and how things happened, but it would be against the law and he would ultimately be punished for it. The Fahrenheit 451 government and parents in our society today limit the freedom of citizens to do what they want. They ban and challenge for the simple purpose of not wanting society to be paralyzed by something unrealistic or unacceptable in the real world. Parents in our society are our firefighters because they remove books they don't like so that their children or other students don't