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• How to Handle Cries for Censorship.
• Opponents are equally heated in insisting that censorship of books and other curriculum materials violates the academic freedom and diversity of thought protected by the U. ...
• During Banned Books Week in 1997, people were exhorted to fight against banning and censorship. Yet do opponents of banning books believe that any book is appropriate for teaching in school? And where should the line be drawn between books that are appropriate and inappropriate? A number of experts have explored these and related questions of censorship. ...
• DEFINING CENSORSHIP.
• Censorship is "the removal, suppression, or restricted circulation of literary, artistic or educational materials. ... on the grounds that these are morally or otherwise objectionable in light of the standards applied by the censor," writes Henry Reichman in Censorship and Selection, Issues and Answers for Schools. According to definitions like this, observers point out, many decisions made by school boards about what can be taught in schools might be seen as acts of censorship. ...
• Challenges to materials in school curricula, according to Censorship of Curriculum Materials by JeanMarie Aurnague-DeSpain and Alan Bass, generally arise in the following areas: .
• Supreme Court cases that deal with censorship issues show a broad trend toward supporting the schools, but they also caution educators to remain aware of values, including minority values, in the communities they serve. ...
• In a landmark censorship case, Island Trees Union Free High School v. ...
• In the Pico case, Justice Brennan's plurality opinion stated that a basis for resolving censorship conflicts over school materials could rest upon the use of "established unbiased procedures for the review of controversial materials" at the local level. ...
• If selection policy ignores minority rights, censorship issues may arise. ...
• To develop a community consensus and prevent cries for censorship, Larry Mikulecky (see Resources) recommends several strategies: .
• In "Censorship of Curriculum Materials," JeanMarie Aurnague-DeSpain and Alan Baas say, "good internal communications and public relations offer the best way to avoid unnecessary controversy. ...
• Several experts recommend the following process, says "Censorship of Curriculum Materials": .

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• Seth Finkelstein - Anti-censorship activist and programmer Seth Finkelstein spent hundreds of unpaid and uncredited hours over several years to decrypt and expose to public scrutiny the secret contents of the most popular censorware blacklists. ...
• It's part of The Net Censorship Dilemma .
• For even more great investigation on what censorware really blacklists, visit Peacefire - "Against censorship of youth on the Internet".

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• You are in: Community > Social Issues > Internet Censorship Go to Page 123  NEXT American Civil Liberties Union Added 22/06/00 Action Alert If you wish to express your opposition to Net censorship, contact your mp & senators NOW! (EFA - June 7, 1999).
• Added 22/06/00 American Library Association Added 22/06/00 Australia Broadcasting Authority Will be responsible for investigating complaints (and ordering offending Websites be immediately removed), as a result of censorship legislation coming into effect 1 January 2000.
• Prohibiting prior censorship of on-line communication. ...
• Added 22/06/00 Howto bypass Internet censorship a tutorial on howto bypass internet censorship in various countries, companies or schools.
• Added 30/03/03 Human Rights Watch report on Freedom of Expression on the Internet In a half-dozen countries, Internet access providers (including public libraries) implement filtering technologies and other voluntary measures to make prior censorship of on-line communications a reality.

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• The Free Expression Policy Project began in 2000 to provide empirical research and policy development on tough censorship issues and seek free speech-friendly solutions to the concerns that drive censorship campaigns. ...

• Censorship in American Libraries.
• But by far the most common type of censorship involves books quietly disappearing from libraries. ... Because of the nature of "stealth censorship," it is difficult to document and impossible to quantify.
• It is surprising how limited the thinking of teachers and even librarians can be about censorship. ... The high school librarian in one town in Florida told me, "We don't have a problem with censorship here. ...

• Internet Detective: Censorship, National Security, and Freedom of Information - Added December 2000.
• A case of censorship or protection of national security? Read the related documents and the Ombudsman's decision and judge yourself.
• European Union Watch ¦ Official Secrecy and Cyber-Censorship ¦ Reports and Publications ¦ Broxtowe Case, 'The JET Report' and related materials.
• ¦ ISPs and Privacy Concerns ¦ Freedom of Expression and Cyber-Censorship Issues.

• In addition, RSF has fought against censorship of journalists through such methods as sending protest letters, systematically reproducing censored articles, and hosting banned newspapers.
• Australian Internet Censorship Bill Stalls. Although new Internet censorship laws under consideration by New South Wales (NSW) Parliament in Australia cleared both houses of Parliament, the proposal has not passed into law. ...
• Opposition to South African Internet Censorship Bill. Privacy International has submitted comments to the South African Parliament in opposition to the Internet Censorship and Monitoring Act. ...
• Fight Online Censorship in Korea. ...

• A decision is expected any day in Governors State University censorship case. ...

• The Liberty Corporation president who preempted a rebroadcast of Saving Private Ryan explains the subtleties of self-censorship spurred by a combination of unclear FCC "indecency" policy and newly raised fine limits--on the occasion of receiving a First Amendment Leadership Award, oddly enough.

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• If defendant could evade court challenges to its Policy by unblocking the protected speech only of entities that filed lawsuits against it, it would be able to continue indefinitely its unconstitutional censorship against most of the now 80,000 websites it currently blocks. ...
• For example, owners of adult bookstores can challenge censorship of books they intend to sell,7 owners of adult movie theaters have standing to protest censorship of movies they intend to show,8 and library patrons have standing to challenge library policies restricting their exercise of the First Amendment right to receive information. ...
• 5, Loudoun County Library Board of Trustees Resolution, Freedom For Ideas -- Freedom From Censorship, May 15, 1995 ("May 15 Resolution"). ...
• The defendant bears this burden because " t he interest in encouraging freedom of expression in a democratic society outweighs any theoretical but unproven benefit of censorship. ...

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