Grade Levels:

6-12

Length:

60 minutes

Taping Rights:

School year

Teaching Materials:

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In a special video edition of National Public Radio’s Justice Talking, Margot Adler hosts a debate on “Free Speech in the Digital Age” from the William G. McGowan Theater at the National Archives. Adler and her guests look at censorship in libraries, censorship of textbooks, and censorship on the Internet and examine the reasons for both safeguarding and limiting speech, including protection of minors and community safety, ensuring a free marketplace of ideas, and guaranteeing democratic institutions. The panelists are First Amendment attorney Floyd Abrams; Jack Valenti, past president and CEO of the Motion Picture Association of America; and Stanford University law professor Lawrence Lessig.

The hour-long program is a presentation of Justice Learning, a collaboration among National Public Radio, the New York Times Learning Network, and other partners. Justice Talking: Free Speech in the Digital Age and another Justice Learning production, Conversations with Supreme Court Justices, were developed to help schools meet the requirement of creating lessons for the annual Constitution Day observance in September.