Billy Dinsmore
Ms. Anderson
AP Language Arts
30 April 2007

The First Amendment is one of the most valued, important, and most threatened amendments in the United States Constitution. The American people are often censored and "protected" from this sickeningly harsh reality.
The FCC censors nudity, crude language, and information that is considered potentially harmful to the interests of the American government and/or its people. Recently, however, the standards for what is considered sexually and verbally explicit have become increasingly flexible. Even the allotted information has undergone an increase since its sudden decrease near the start of America's involvement in the Middle East in 2001.
Despite the change in society's opinion on what is and isn't acceptable for public access, the United States Supreme Court ruled in United States v. American Library Association that libraries were required by law, that in order to receive federal funding for internet access, they......

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Title: Library Censorship: A Blow At Free Thought
Approximate Word Count: 1215
Approximate Pages: 5 (250 words per double-spaced page)

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