Censorship in Our

Digital World

Changes in our world

Video: A Day Made of Glass

Changes

Then and Now

Now

Then

V
S
Had to watch
live TV

Entertainment
when you want
it

Then and Now

Now

Then

V
S
Albums full of
photos you never
looked at

Hard drives full of

photos you never
looked at

Then and Now

Now

Then

V
S
Sat by the phone
waiting for your

You email,
tweet and IM

Then and Now

Now

Then

V
S
Parents
complained that
you never called

They want to be
your FB friend and
invite you to play

Then and Now

Now

Then

V
S
Played four square

Check in on
Foursquare

Then and Now

Now

Then

V
S
Sent party invites
through the mail

Send party invites

through FB

Then and Now

Now

Then

V
S
Too shy to talk
to the opposite
sex

Too busy on your

smart phone to talk
to the opposite sex

Then and Now

Now

Then

V
S
Computers cost
thousands and took
up entire rooms

Computers are
more affordable
and smaller than

Then and Now

Now

Then

V
S
People broadcasted
their thoughts via
bumper stickers

People broadcast
their thoughts via
twitter and blogs

Then and Now

Now

Then

V
S
Person talking
to themselves
was most likely
crazy

Person talking
to themselves
is on a
bluetooth

Then and Now

Now

Then

V
S
People met in faceto-face meetings

People meet on Skype

or use some other
VoIP (Voice-over-

1st Amendment
Congress shall make no law
respecting an establishment of
religion, or prohibiting the free
exercise thereof; or abridging
the freedom of speech, or of the
press; or the right of the people
peaceably to assemble, and to
petition the Government for a
redress of grievances.

History of Censorship

1864

1870s 1900s

Anthony Comstock
Anti-obscenity Advocate from early 1870s
until early 1900s

20 Century Banned
Books
th

Banned Technology

Why censorship?
What purpose does it have in society today?
Why censor the media and limit freedom of
expression?

Blac
White

Pros

Provides

a force or guiding hand in the

morals and values of the nation as a whole

Trade

secrets are legally kept from the

public and other companies in order for
the business to maintain legitimacy

Young

people are protected from

pornography

Cons
Individuals

are not able to create, question,

inquire, and express themselves freely.

The

press is not free to report what it

believes to be important.

The

spread and sharing of information is

stifled.

People

are forced to wait for information or

find other means of discovering it.

Intellectual Freedom
The right to freedom of thought
and of expression of thought.
Everyone has the right to freedom of
opinion and expression; this right includes
freedom to hold opinions without
interference and to seek, receive and
impart information and ideas through any
media and regardless of frontiers.
Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of the United
Nations

Federal Laws

New FCC Guidance

Although it is possible that
certain individual Facebook or
My Space pages could
potentially contain material
harmful to minors, we do not
find that these websites are per
se harmful to minors or fall
into one of the categories that
schools and libraries must

NASSP Position
Call

for Mobile and Social Technologies

in schools.
Asked policy leaders to clarify the
legal liability of school leaders.
Urged district leaders to reduce
Internet filtering
Recommended school leaders
promoteresponsible use of
technologies that have the potential
for misuse.
National Association of Secondary School Principals

Who should monitor Internet

access?
People, not machines, should
have authority over what
students are allowed to access on
the Internet. The final authority
over Internet access should reside
with the teachers and librarians
charged with overseeing
students, not software.
Professor Craig CunninghamNational-Louis University

Electronic Freedom
Foundation
97-99%

of the web pages blocked by schools were

done so using criteria beyond what is required by
CIPA.

Internet

blocking software was not able to totally

detect and protect students from access to many of
the apparently bad sites that appeared in search
results related to state-mandated curriculums.

As

anyone who has worked with young people

knows, a certain percentage of young people will
see any block as simply a challenge to find a way
around.

We are living inthe nearly

now.

Professor Stephen Heppell

CEO heppell.net, Ltd.

Preparing a new
generation

Change needed

Video: I Need My Teachers to

Learn

How will you respond?

Censorship reflects a
society's lack of confidence
in itself.

Justice Potter Stewart