Gene Policinski: Two ongoing questions: What’s fit for the Web? And, what doesn’t ‘fit’?

  So, consider the internet to be one, big ole’ bucket of free expression — news and information pouring in constantly.

  And then consider what would you want poured into that bucket?  What would you keep out?

  Those two simple questions likely will occupy much time and talk over the next years,  if not the next decades, as we are forced to consider the nature of the stuff — speech, news and information — that goes into and comes out of the World Wide Web.

David L. Hudson Jr.: Banned Books Week: A time to reflect on the First Amendment

  Banned Books Week is an excellent opportunity to reflect on the dangers of censorship and the importance of the First Amendment

  This week the American Library Association (ALA), the American Booksellers for Free Expression, and a host of other groups will remind us once again that that banning books damages the “marketplace of ideas” and is contrary to the meaning and purpose of a free society and a constitutional democracy.