Includes bibliographical references (page 184) and index
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Government censorship would benefit society / Roger Kimball -- Speech should not be restricted / Paul McMasters -- Hate speech should be banned / Terrie Albano -- Hate speech should not be banned / William L. Pierce -- Flag desecration should be banned / Tommy Lasorda -- Flag desecration should not be banned / Charles Levendosky -- The free speech rights of abortion protesters should be restricted / Richard Curtis -- The free speech rights of abortion protesters should not be restricted / Robyn Blumner -- Pornography should be censored / Robert H. Bork -- Pornography should not be censored / Peter McWilliams -- The federal government can regulate Internet pornography / Dan Coats -- Federal regulation of Internet pornography is unconstitutional / Charles Levendosky -- Internet pornography should have its own domain / Bruce Watson -- A separate domain for Internet pornography would violate free speech / Jon Weinberg -- Libraries should restrict access to offensive books / Helen Chaffee Biehle -- American Library Association intellectual freedom policies and the First Amendment / Bruce J. Ennis -- Libraries should use software filters for the Internet / Kathleen Parker --Statement on Internet filtering / Intellectual Freedom Committee, American Library Association -- Campus speech codes are necessary / Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic -- Campus speech codes violate free speech / Jon Katz -- The entertainment industry should be censored / David Lowenthal -- The entertainment industry should practice self-censorship / Michael D. Eisner -- The entertainment industry should not be censored / Virginia Postrel -- Government should not fund controversial art / Joseph Perkins -- Government funding of the arts is necessary / Harold Jaffe
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Contains twenty-five essays in which the authors debate issues of censorship and freedom of speech, considering whether the right to free speech should be restricted, and discussing censorship as it relates to pornography, schools and libraries, and the arts and entertainment industries