Issues - Violence
in the Media
Another
Game Censorship Law is Struck Down
(August 15, 2007) - Why nine court defeats haven't
stopped states from trying to restrict "violent" video games.
Reactions
to the FCC's Report on TV Violence
(April 30, 2007) - The First Amendment Center has
published a range of reactions to a report that is more responsive to
political pressures than useful in sorting out the issues.
The
Disconnect Between Fact and Rhetoric
(August 2, 2006) - A recent conference, "Beyond
Censorship," touts ratings and filters, and buys into myths about
proven harm from sexual or violent content.
Movie
Censors Are Also Copyright Infringers
(July 11, 2006) - A federal court has ruled against
the fair use arguments of CleanFlicks and fellow sanitizers.
Sanitizing
Movies
(April 19, 2005) - The "Family Movie Act"
(which was passed into law shortly after this testimony was given) singles
out filmmakers for lesser copyright protection in order to encourage the
movie-censoring industry.
Congress
Weighs In On Movie Filters
(May 21, 2004) - Threats to change copyright law if
directors and studios don't allow censorware to blur, cut, and bleep.
What's
Wrong With Censoring Youth?
(April 19, 2004) - Law professor Kevin Saunders' new book proposes radical
restrictions on minors' First Amendment rights.
Fact
Sheet on Media Violence
(January 2004) - Answers frequently-asked questions about social science
research into the effects of media violence. The bottom line is that despite
the claims of some psychologists and politicians, the actual research
results have been weak and ambiguous.
Media
Literacy: An Alternative to Censorship
(2002; second edition, 2003) - FEPP's survey of media literacy education
and why it is preferable to TV ratings, Internet filters, "indecency"
laws, and other efforts to censor the ideas and information available
to the young. View the report in html
or pdf.
Not
In Front of the Children: "Indecency," Censorship, and The Innocence
Of Youth
From Huckleberry Finn to Harry Potter, Internet
filters to the v-chip, censorship is often based on the assumption that
children and adolescents must be protected from "indecent" speech.
In Not In Front of the Children, FEPP Director Marjorie Heins explores
the history of indecency laws and other censorship aimed at youth. Not
in Front of the Children won the 2002 American Library Association's
Eli M. Oboler Award for the best published work in the area of intellectual
freedom.
For Materials on Violence in the Media in 2000-03, go to the Archives
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