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Articles on Censorship: A Look at the Different Sides of the Issue
There is more than one side to any story. This is more true with censorship of the written word than with most topics. You know where you stand on this issue, but what is your opinion based on? Is it based on fact and your morals, or on other people's morals? To help determine this, it is a good idea to find out what other people have thought on the issue. Here are some articles, essays and speeches that cover this issue from a different side of the story.
http://www.booksatoz.com/censorship/article.htm
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Boston Coalition for Freedom of Expression
Resources, reports, and a list of "Heroes and Villains."
http://users.rcn.com/kyp/bcfe.html
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Censorship and Intellectual Freedom Page
Annotated collection of links on a variety of topics related to censorship and intellectual freedom.
http://php.indiana.edu/~quinnjf/censor.html
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Intellectual Freedom
WWW Resources related to intellectual freedom and censorship for libraries. Includes policy statements, lists of banned books, and links to Supreme Court cases and decisions.
http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/free.htm
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PICS, Censorship, and Intellectual Freedom FAQ
Examines intellectual freedom issues raised by the Platform for Internet Content Selection (PICS), a set of technical specifications developed by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), and often used in filtering software.
http://www.w3.org/PICS/PICS-FAQ-980126.html
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Suppression of Speech by the United States Government: The Children's Internet Protection Act
Argues that the federal government attempted to engage in mass censorship by passing the Children's Internet Protection Act.
http://www.mlaforum.org/volumeI/issue1/suppression.html
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Texas Library Association Intellectual Freedom Handbook
Practical and theoretical information on intellectual freedom, censorship, and related issues.
http://www.txla.org/pubs/ifhbk.html
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