UK push for Internet ratings, “cinema-style”
The UK culture secretary Andy Burnham has recently spoken out about making the internet safer by adopting a rating system similar to the movie ratings. His take on the web: “quite a dangerous place.”...
View ArticleIf you don’t see something, say something.
Recently NCAC was contacted by a high school student who was having difficulty accessing particular LGBT websites from his school. Upon further investigation this student uncovered the likely culprit-...
View ArticleKnoxville to Students: No LGBT Websites
In February 2009, NCAC and the ACLU of Tennessee jointly responded to a situation at a Knoxville, TN high school where internet filters are currently blocking constitutional protected material on the...
View ArticleRevisiting Shelby Knox’s Fight Against Abstinence-only Education – A Review...
The Education of Shelby Knox. Click to watch the trailer.I recently had the chance to watch The Education of Shelby Knox, a documentary chronicling a high school student’s campaign to bring...
View ArticleCensorship, Kids and the Internet
One part the internet, one part kids… mix and the result is a recipe for parental anxiety, mixed opinions from professionals and politicians, and overreaching attempts to control access to information....
View ArticleBoard of Ed v. Pico: 31 years of reading freely in school libraries
If you love libraries, you might know that today marks the anniversary of an important decision upholding the First Amendment in schools. In Board of Ed. v. Pico (1982), the plurality opinion stated...
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