“A large majority of Americans see the freedom of the press as highly important to the well-being of society. But many express concerns about potential restrictions on press freedoms in the Uni...
https://www.bespacific.com/most-americans-say-a-free-press-is-highly-important-to-society/
Bookriot: “Despite the fact that librarians are among the most trusted professionals, per data acquired in several studies of parents on the perceptions of the profession, lawmakers across the ...
CRS Report – Freedom of Speech: An Overview March 29, 2024 – “The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution protects “the freedom of speech,” but that protection is not absolute. The Fre...
“The number of titles targeted for censorship surged 65 percent in 2023 compared to 2022, reaching the highest levels ever documented by the American Library Association (ALA). The new numbers ...
The Verge: “Social media companies have long made their own rules about the content they allow on their sites. But a pair of cases set to be argued before the Supreme Court on Monday will test ...
https://www.bespacific.com/the-supreme-court-is-about-to-decide-the-future-of-online-speech/
The New York Times : “From Tokyo and Chiang Mai, Thailand, to Amsterdam and New York, members of the Chinese diaspora are building public lives that are forbidden in China and training themselv...
https://www.bespacific.com/emigres-are-creating-an-alternative-china-one-bookstore-at-a-time/
ReactorMag – “One price of free speech is eternal humility, recognizing that none of us is immune to becoming a tool of censorship if we fail to recognize its manipulative tactics. Was it a g...
https://www.bespacific.com/tools-for-thinking-about-censorship-2/
Kyle Hull, Clarisse Warren, Kevin Smith. Politics makes bastards of us all: Why moral judgment is politically situational . Political Psychology, 2024; DOI: 10.1111/pops.12954 – “Moral judgm...
“The Dignity Index scores distinct phrases along an eight-point scale from contempt to dignity. Lower scores (1-4) reflect divisive language while higher scores (5-8) reflect language grounded ...
https://www.bespacific.com/dignity-index-is-designed-to-prevent-violence/
The Atlantic “By now, December’s congressional hearing about anti-Semitism at universities, during which the presidents of Harvard, the University of Pennsylvania, and MIT all claimed that c...
https://www.bespacific.com/why-the-most-educated-people-in-america-fall-for-anti-semitic-lies/
Book Banning Goes Digital: Libraries Suspending Their E-Book Services and the Complications It Poses for First Amendment Doctrine – Catherine E. Ferri. Stanford Technology Law Review, Stanfor...
The New York Times : “…As America’s libraries have become noisy and sometimes dangerous new battlegrounds in the nation’s culture wars, librarians like Ms. Neujahr and their allies have m...
https://www.bespacific.com/cast-as-criminals-americas-librarians-rally-to-their-own-defense/