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The ACLU of Utah has filed a lawsuit against Utah for its censorship of books in public schools. In brief, Utah requires the removal of any book that “depicts” sex without any consideration of merit or context and if 3 school districts (or 2 distric...


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As I wrote four months ago, I’ve been playing around with censorship class ideas since I started this research seven years ago. Some of this I did in small ways, such as expanding the obscenity/scandalous material section of my free speech course. I also usually do a day on the suppression of gay materials in my queer history and politics classes. But that only scra...


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As mentioned in my last post about video games, I considered a few things for the last substantive week. Ultimately, it felt appropriate to end a class inspired by my censorship research with the material that began that work: young ...


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One of my favorite topics to teach is battles over games and the intersection with free speech. Partly this is because I grew up in this world. I was a nerdy 1990s teen who read sword and sorcery fantasy novels all the time and played a lot of video games. Additionally, it’s just fascinating to see the longevity of silly arguments about “dangerous” media. That at the...


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I had to follow up the week exploring comedy and the FCC with the music wars of the 1980s and ‘90s. Music had long been a source of controversy in the U.S. around the questions of race, sex, and drugs. Think of the ab...


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