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Free Speech and Book Bans — How to Think About Libraries, Access, and Censorship (John Chrastka)
Published 1 year, 6 months ago
Description
My guest is John Chrastka, Executive Director of EveryLibrary, an organization focused on supporting libraries and access to information.This conversation focuses on a deeper question:
How should we think about access, curation, and free speech when values conflict?
In this episode, we explore:
• The role libraries play in access to information
• Why book bans emerge and how they're justified
• The tension between access and content control
• How communities make decisions about what is included or excluded
• What free speech means in practice
This is an exploration of competing values, rather than a simple answer to a complex issue.
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