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INTERNET CENSORSHIP

 

DEFINITION: “The action of preventing material that a party considers objectionable from circulating within a system of communication over which that party has no power.” (Microsoft Press Computer Dictionary)

 

NARROW THE TOPIC:

·         What is the Communications Decency Act of 1996?

·         What is the Telecommunications Act of 1996?

·         Discuss the Children's Internet Protection Act and it’s effect on libraries.

·         Should businesses be allowed to monitor an employee's use of the Internet?

·         How successful are software filters (Surfwatch Software, etc)?

·         Should encryption of data and internet phone conversations be permitted?

·         How have terrorists, cults, and child molesters used the Internet?

·         How big a problem is the use of the Internet in the distribution of pornography?

·         How should schools, public universities, and libraries handle censorship of the Internet?

 

LINCC SUBJECT HEADINGS: Censorship; Child Pornography; Freedom of Speech; Internet (Computer Network); Mass Media and Children

 

SPECIALIZED SOURCES SHELVED IN REFERENCE COLLECTION:

Encyclopedia of Censorship	REF Z 658 .W675 C38 2001
Encyclopedia of Crime and Punishment	REF HV 6017 .E524 2002
Encyclopedia of Espionage, Intelligence, and Security	REF JF 1525 .I6 E63 2004
Library in a Book: Censorship	REF Z658 .U5 R55
West’s Encyclopedia of American Law	REF KF 154 .W47 1998 “Censorship” and  “Internet”

 

AVAILABLE AT THE REFERENCE DESK:

CQ Researcher  "Regulating the Net" 6/30/95 “Internet and Privacy”  11/06/98;  “Libraries and the Internet”  6/12/01; "Controlling the Internet" 5/12/2006

Current Controversies:  Information Highway;  Computers and Society: (also available in the Opposing Viewpoints Database)

Issues and Controversies on File  "Internet Regulation"  6/27/97; “Electronic Privacy” 7/17/98; "Pornography”  9/25/98; "Social Networking Web Sites" 6/09/06

Issues and Controversies on File      “Internet Filtering Software” 4/26/02; "U.S. Internet Companies in China" 3/10/06

Opposing Viewpoints: Censorship; Civil Liberties;  Information Revolution; Mass Media;  Internet

 

STATISTICS: Electronic America: Information Plus  (also available in the Opposing Viewpoints Database)

 

ELECTRONIC INDEXES:

Academic Search Premier

Expanded Academic ASAP

OmniFile Full Text Mega

 

FULL-TEXT NEWSPAPERS:  America's Newspapers

 

SUGGESTED INTERNET SITES:

Center for Democracy and Technology	http://www.cdt.org
Electronic Frontier Foundation	http://www.eff.org
Electronic Privacy Information Center	http://www.epic.org
Epn	http://epn.org/idea/media.html
Public Agenda Online	http://www.publicagenda.org/issues/frontdoor.cfm?issue_type=internet

 

CITING YOUR SOURCES:

University/College Library Citing Electronic Resources Links

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