----------------------------------- Dec 21‚ 2004 Ethics of School Filters for the Internet ----------------------------------- School Filters for the Internet Protecting children from online pornography is a constant political issue on Capitol Hill‚ and local school boards could find themselves handed yet another federal mandate telling them how to do their jobs. The U.S. Senate recently added amendments to a large spending bill requiring schools and libraries to block student access to
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beer). When they argue that wearing such T-shirts is the same as actually drinking beer‚ they ignore the basic principles of freedom of speech. The problems of drinking at schools should be dealt with through education and counseling‚ and not by censorship. Can the school make me wear a school uniform? Although schools are allowed to adopt school uniform policies‚ there are certain rules that schools must follow in doing so. One of the most important rules is that schools must allow parents to
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Each year‚ libraries across the United States report hundreds of challenges. The leading causes for contesting a book are sexually explicit content‚ offensive language and inappropriate subjects for minors [source: American Library Association]. Only a minority of the requests actually make it through to banning the book from its respective library. The Catcher in the Rye. The Scarlet Letter. Huckleberry Finn. Harry Potter. The Diary of Anne Frank. Animal Farm. To Kill a Mockingbird. The Da Vinci
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Banned books. What does this phrase mean to you? Is it something you agree or disagree with? If you go online and look up the definition of banned book‚ the most common definition is: A book that has been removed from the shelves of a library‚ bookstore‚ or classroom because of its controversial content such as political‚ religious‚ sexual‚ or social grounds. My personal definition of a banned book is a barrier to another’s education and imagination because of the books contrasting content. So what’s
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The “Foundation for Individual Rights in Education” is the primary advocate group for the removal of speech codes on college campuses‚ working to draw attention to the growing censorship problems and striving to repeal unconstitutional restrictions. FIRE was formed in order to “empower campus activists‚ reform restrictive policies‚ and inform the public about the state of rights on our campuses” (FIRE. N.p.‚ n.d. Web). The organization rates colleges yearly on their policies regarding free speech
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CensorShip‚ that word Ring a bell? Off course it Might‚ Almost everyone has heard this word before some time in there Life. Censorship is a word that is Mostly used when discussing About banned books and speaking about banned books‚ Let’s bring one up. “The Lovely Bones”‚ a book Written by Alice Sebold‚ Is about a School Girl named Susie who gets abused and Murdered by Her Neighbor Named Mr. Harvey and she watches from heaven how her family is going through life discovering this tragic event and
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distinguish between the appropriateness of such communications and their status under the First Amendment” (66). Bok believes that it is a hard decision to decide what should and should not be censored. He states that “one reason why the power of censorship is so dangerous is that it is extremely difficult to decide when a particular communication is offensive enough to warrant exclusion or to weigh the degree of offensiveness against the potential value of the communication” (67). Working through
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The Motion Picture Production Code In 1930 ‚ The Production Code was introduced. The Hayes Code was essentially censorship of movies. It imposed a very strict‚ conservative moral code on the movies‚ completely banning sex‚ nudity‚ profanity‚ gore... from all films. And beyond that‚ it regulated themes as well‚ insisting‚ for instance‚ that the bad guys always get punished and that the clergy be shown in a generally favorable light. The code focused on the the audience and its desires that the
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George Orwell once famously said If liberty means anything at all‚ it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.’ This sentence sums up the very essence of free speech; it is‚ as Orwell believed‚ the mother of all civil rights. Without the unconditional freedom to offend it cannot exist. Ideas are‚ more often than not‚ dangerous things. There is little point in having freedom of speech if it only defends the most popular and innocuous of opinions. The freedom to offend can perpetrate
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