By Diane Balogh, ACLU of Eastern Missouri at 4:44pm
Book banning still makes headlines, but today the practice seems pretty old school. The 21st century form of censorship has now become Internet filtering.
Today is Banned Websites Awareness Day – a designated day within Banned Books Week – which is sponsored by our friends at the American Association of School Librarians and designed to raise awareness of the overly restrictive blocking of legitimate, educational websites and academically useful social networking tools in schools and school libraries. At the ACLU LGBT Project, this is a subject near and dear to our hearts, and today we’re releasing a new report about our work to fight back against banned websites.
