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C@%sorsh*p “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” – President Franklin Delano Roosevelt “Be afraid. Be very afraid.” – Charles Edward Pogue
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Whᴭt I§ Itʢ Control or limitation of print or words that is deemed hazardous Gov’t efforts to manage media substance There are exceptions (Opposing Viewpoints)
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Why Should You Care? 17/22 Religion does not belong in politics 12/17 U.S. Indiv. Rights are being eroded 10/19 Prayer should be allowed in schools 8/16 Racism is decreasing in America 12/22 The gov. does not serve us well 19/19 I use the internet a lot
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Your Uncle Sam Says: YOU WILL OBEY ME AND MY CORPORATE SPONSORS.
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B#^ks & Pr!ss The printing press was invented by the German Johannes Gutenberg around 1440 (Wikipedia). Before & After
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Banned Books 2011 The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian Speak The Flamingo Rising The Notebook Girls: Four Friends, One Diary, Real Life Forever in Blue, the Fourth Summer of the Sisterhood Running with Scissors My Mom’s Having a Baby Betrayed The Perks of Being a Wallflower The Awakening The Hunger Games Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close Anne Frank: the Diary of a Young Girl Water for elephants Snow Falling On Cedars The Curious Incident of the dog in the Night-time The Dead Man in Indian Creek Get Well Soon Snakehead Brave New World Stolen Children The Koran Great Sout Mahatma Gandhi and his Struggle With India Vegan Virgin Valentine What’s Happening to My Body? Book for Boys: A Growing-up Guide for Parents and Sons Kaffir Boy: The True Story of a Black Youth’s Coming of Age in Apartheid South Africa Shooting Star Writer’s Voice: Selected from Borrowed Time: An ADIS Memoir Tweaked: A Crystal Meth Memoir Song of Solomon Ttyl Twenty Boy Summer The Body of Christopher Creed The Catcher in the Rye Push Pit Bulls and tenacious guard Dogs We’ll Be Here for the Rest of Our Lives The Heroine Diaries: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star Bone One of Those Hideous Books Where the Mother Dies Revolutionary Voices: A Multicultural Queer Youth Anthology Slaughterhouse-Five Jubilee Paint Me Like I Am: Teen Poems (American Library Association)
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Why Were These Banned? Sex, profanity, and racism desire to protect children. Intent is good, yet this contains hazards > exposure to “evil” Individuals may restrict themselves or their children.
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Value of Reality Over Obscenity We don’t want young children (approx. 0-8 yrs.) to see pornography, violence, crime, or discrimination.
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@dverti$ement$ Ads seem to slip through our relatively censored media; why are they accepted?
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Ỉntern;t: the Stop Online Piracy Act or Stop Open-minded People Act? SOPA & PIPA (Protect Internet Provider Act)
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Political Speech: FEC vs Citizens United & the McCain-Feingold Act
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Mῧs[c http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/2pac/godblessthedead.html http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/2pac/godblessthedead.html God bless the dead & buried nigga Don't worry if you see God first tell Him shit got worse I ain't mad, I know you're representin the crew And I can picture you in Heaven with a blunt & a brew Fuck the world, pain was a part of the game If you a baller, money went as quick as it came My role models gone or they locked in the pen Straight hustlas, caught up in the whirlwind The other day, I thought I seen my homeboy Biggie Sayin shit don't stop, nigga, no pity We all hoods, and all we ever had was dreams Money makin mothafuckas plot scandalous schemes In the gutter, you learn to have a criminal mind I was addicted to tryin, never meant to do time My epitaph will read "Was the last of Gs Kicked the shit to make the white man bleed God bless the dead"
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Mov!&s + Te}evi$ion Dorlita in the Passion Dance Reenactment of the Massacre at Wounded Knee The Birth of a Nation Birth Control Scarface Two-Faced Woman Scarlet Street The Moon is Blue The Vanishing Prairie Victim Viva Maria! Titicut Follies I Am Curious (Yellow) Monty Python’s Life of Brian The Last temptation of Christ The Tin Drum The Profit The Yes Men Fix the World
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Slippery Slope Fallacy vs Historical Fact
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Cᶿn₵luᵴioᴻ Don’t Let Anyone Try to Control You And Don’t Try to Control Anyone Else
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