children all over the world by public libraries‚ schools‚ parents‚ or even government. No one should have the right to restrict anyone from reading anything except for parents who should only be able to ban their own children from reading a book. "Censorship by librarians of constitutionally protected speech‚ whether for protection or for any other reason‚ violates the first amendment." - www.Ala.org I have read Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson. It is often banned or challenged because of its rape
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Shockey‚ K. (2016). Intellectual Freedom Is Not Social Justice. Progressive Librarian‚ (44)‚ 101-110. Kyle Shockey is a Resource Description Specialist at the American University. His article discusses academic freedom and its relationship to the LIS Curriculum. He begins by discussing Professor Steven Salatia losing his tenured position at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign after the professor used Twitter to criticize the Israel Defense Force during the summer of 2014. Given that
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Personal Relationships > Pornography “With pornographic material freely available on the internet and not covered by the laws of the country in which it may be viewed‚ ethics are needed to guide its usage”. The general meaning of ethics is the balance of morals and principles. Generally ethics has to do with particular groups‚ and in each group they are constantly changing. These changes happen due to factors in life‚ factors such as; age‚ religion and gender. Ethics is a very debatable topic
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<i><center>Thesis: Government Censorship would damage the atmosphere of the freedom to express ideas on the Internet; therefore‚ government should not encourage censorship. </i></center><br><br><b>Introduction</b><br><br>I. In the Internet community‚ there is a large volume of technical terms. For this reason‚ it is first necessary to examine the terminology specific to Internet. <br><br>1.The internet is a world wide computer network. <br><br>1.Electronic mail (email)‚ which is one component of
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The United States is a symbol of freedom‚ equality‚ and justice to many people in the world. Historically‚ freedom is one of the most valuable quality to many Americans. The major condition of freedom which is the freedom of speech. However‚ some type of people like to use the languages to attack some specific group of people. They tend to attack by someone’s race‚ religion‚ nationality‚ gender and more. This problem has already brought to the internet in these days‚ and people were abuzz with this
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People today has always take their rights seriously when it comes to police brutality. The definition of police brutality is police use of excessive or unnecessary forced by when dealing with civilians. The excessive force is used to handle a situation that is needed but sometimes can be an unnecessary to solve the situation. Police officers uses nerve gas‚ batons‚ pepper spray and guns to or physically intimidate the civilians. But the question is that should it be necessary every time or for different
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The topic of freedom of speech has been debated for years. It was seen as incredibly important to our founding fathers as it earned its place in the First Amendment. The majority of Americans advocate for the preservation of this right‚ but some say it has gone too far. The people who say that freedom of speech should be limited argue that this liberty can lead to some uncomfortable situations. When people exercise their right of expression‚ some claim that it can be offensive. When people speak
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Cited: Bailey‚ Thomas A.‚ David M. Kennedy‚ and Lizabeth Cohen. The American Pageant. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company‚ 1998. Hyland‚ Paul‚ Sammells‚ Neil. "Writing and Censorship." London: Routledge; 1992: 1-13; 133-167. Steele‚ Shari. "Taking a Bite Out of the First Amendment." http://www.eff.org/pub/Cenorship/human_rights_961420.article. 1996. United States. "Annotated Constitution." GPO Gate 20 June 1998 http://www.gpo
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as the Qur’an and the Bible in order to appeal to his audience by saying that removing certain speech from the Internet is like removing messages from these books. He also provides the reader with evidence by saying that the Internet already has censorship inducing people to report things that might be offensive‚ that statement contradicts his main argument but he does a good use of it by mentioning that this is a way to behave in a authoritarian manner‚ seeking to regulate everything we say in the
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want to discuss. Although it may seem important to give notice to students of scandalous or offensive material‚ the addition of trigger warnings in syllabi is excessive and will only leave students unable to develop intellectually. This form of censorship only coddles the students‚ keeping them from learning that there will always be upsetting topics that they cannot control. By censoring college curriculum‚ we are allowing students to rely on trigger warnings to be there during every uncomfortable
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