Author Description

Editor Scott Barbour has carefully compiled several essays that debate various issues relating to censorship. By presenting readers with more than one intelligent viewpoint, they will think critically while forming or revising their own opinions about censorship. Chapter one debates whether there should be limits to free speech. Chapter two asks whether the Internet should be censored. Chapter three takes a look at worldwide censorship on free speech. Chapter four discusses whether freedom in the U.S. is threatened by censorship. Essay sources include Dean Baquet, Bill Keller, Haroon Siddiqui, Adam B. Kushner, April Gu, Debra Lau Whelan, and Alan Sears.