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Unfortunately, in their heavy-handed approach, school librarians have subverted the true purpose of censorship and undermined the judgment of the Newbery Medal committee. Censorship is supposed to protect children from being corrupted by substandard portrayal of important topics and issues. It is not intended to keep children ignorant of the adult world, but to ensure that children learn about adult issues in the correct manner. With the amount of improper and faulty information around, censorship serves a vital role in society, but this case is a clear example of its abuse...
First of all, banning an award-winning children’s book from public school libraries is counterintuitive. While awards and professionals are often wrong, in this case librarians have acted hastily. Censorship should be enforced on a case-by-case basis, not only because people mature at different ages but also because there is simply no definitive law that says that a child must be a certain age before he or she can encounter the word “scrotum.” Instead, in this particular case, the response demonstrates a knee-jerk reaction to one taboo word...
...wherever they start, we're all gonna hear them. Every level of debate is going to get out in the culture. We don't need the attitude that if someone says something we don't agree with, they need to GO AWAY. This country doesn't need more censorship, it needs less...
...information and help with recruiting new members to the paper. The abrupt closure of the paper, which occurred after a two-hour notice through e-mail sent to Editor-in-Chief Sergio Zepeza, garnered increasing coverage in Mexico over the past week. The local media cast the incident as censorship by the administration and an act against free speech, according to Josefina Buxade, an associate professor at the university and an adviser to the paper. While the administration did promise the staff the paper’s independence at the meeting, no written agreement has yet been made, according...
...studying in a medical school in the U.S. Like many young people in China, I have a lot of worries about the country's uncertain future. Chinese society has extremely good aspects, such as a booming economy and increased opportunities for young people, but also bad sides, like Internet censorship and peasants' and laborers' poorly protected rights. China's leaders must be made to understand that democratic reforms are urgently needed. Not only is China's peaceful rise an aspiration of 1.3 billion Chinese, but it will be good for the rest of the world too. Kou Qin Augusta, Georgia...