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Library Censorship: A Blow at Free Thought. Billy Dinsmore Ms. Anderson
AP Language Arts 30 April 2007 The First Amendment is one ...
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Billy Dinsmore
Ms. Anderson
AP Language Arts
30 April 2007
The First Amendment is one of the most valued, important, and most threatened amendments in the United States Constitution. The American people are often censored and "protected" from this sickeningly harsh reality.
The FCC censors nudity, crude language, and information that is considered potentially harmful to the interests of the American government and/or its people. Recently, however, the standards for what is considered sexually and verbally explicit have become increasingly flexible. Even the allotted information has undergone an increase since its sudden decrease near the start of America's involvement in the Middle East in 2001.
Despite the change in society's opinion on what is and isn't acceptable for public access, the United States Supreme Court ruled in United States v. American Library Association that libraries were required by law, that in order to receive federal funding for internet access, they must install filters that censor websites containing child pornography, obscene material, and material that is harmful to minors onto all terminals that are within public access. If needed, however, citizens over the age of 18 can request that their filters be shut off, but only "to enable access for bona fide research or other lawful purpose." (Title 47, Chapter 5, Subchapter II, Part II, ยง 254) Adults, however, are still not allowed to legally view obscene material and/or child pornography.
What is meant by obscene material? The law defines obscenity using the Miller test. The Miller test asks:
"(a) whether the "average person applying contemporary community standards" would
find that the work, taken as a whole, appeals to the prurient interest; (b) whether the
work depicts or describes, in a patently offensive way, sexual conduct specifically
defined by the applicable state law; and (c) whether the...
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