The U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary is holding a full committee listening to titled “Book Bans: Examining How Censorship Limits Liberty and Literature” on September twelfth at 10 am Eastern. A stay video will likely be out there on the the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary web site.
Emily Knox, the Board President of the National Coalition Against Censorship, will likely be testifying concerning the improve in ebook bans lately and the way it impacts democracy and training in addition to impedes on First Amendment rights.
Knox urges the subcommittee to behave to combat ebook bans, saying,
“Book Banning has created a perilous challenge to our Constitutional Rights, which promises our freedom to choose materials for ourselves and our families. We should also consider the harm that the act of banning materials is having on youth, educators, librarians, families, and diverse communities across our nation as they fight for access to materials that mirror their cultures and experiences. I hope that our nation’s leaders will understand that each book removal equals a profound loss of educational resources needed to understand the complex world surrounding us.”
Find extra information and tales of curiosity from the ebook world in Breaking in Books.
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