Identify a specific issue drawn from the continuum exercise above. Select other issues for consideration about who ought to decide. Also, note that some school districts have banned various books over the years, as well as the teaching of evolutionary theory about the creation of the earth. Censorship on the Internet. Malaysia terminates academic scholarships if you criticize the government on the Internet.
China requires Internet users to register or face imprisonment.
Singapore searches everyone's e-mail for sexually explicit material. The U.S.'s FBI searches web sites for pornography and reports it to other countries including Canada, as well as to their nation's law authorities. Use Canada's censorship timeline to have students respond to the following questions. Have students read this list of facts and draw conclusions about Canada's practice of censorship. Canada ratified the 1970 International Convention on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination that called on nations to pass laws against the dissemination of ideas based on racial superiority or hatred.