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In the 21st century in the United States, Republican lawmakers have proposed or enacted legislation to censor school curriculum that taught about comprehensive sex education, [20] LGBTQ people, [21] higher-order thinking skills, [22] social justice, [23] sexism and racism, [24] and various left-wing political philosophies.
hide. Internet censorship in the United States is the suppression of information published or viewed on the Internet in the United States. The First Amendment of the United States Constitution protects freedom of speech and expression against federal, state, and local government censorship. Free speech protections allow little government ...
Major book publishers have sued the US state of Florida over a law that allows schools to ban certain books from their student libraries. The lawsuit, filed on Thursday by publishers including ...
The Independent reported last month that the Duvall County school district ordered teachers to remove all non-curriculum books from school shelves pending a review by a “media specialist,” a ...
Stephen King has given a blunt three-word response to discovering that 23 of his books have been banned from school libraries in Florida, a law that is now being challenged by six major book ...
Book banning in the United States (2021–present) Starting in 2021, there have been a considerable number of books banned or challenged in parts of the United States. Most of the targeted books have to do with race, gender, and sexuality. Unlike most book challenges in the past, whereby parents or other stakeholders in the community would ...
Book censorship in the United States. Book censorship is the removal, suppression, or restricted circulation of literary, artistic, or educational material on the grounds that it is objectionable according to the standards applied by the censor. [1] The first instance of book censorship in what is now known as the United States, took place in ...
The Sedition Act of 1918 (Pub. L. Tooltip Public Law (United States) 65–150, 40 Stat. 553, enacted May 16, 1918) was an Act of the United States Congress that extended the Espionage Act of 1917 to cover a broader range of offenses, notably speech and the expression of opinion that cast the government or the war effort in a negative light or ...