As I end this article, I would like educators to respond to this writing by sharing with me your own experiences and insights on censorship and self-censorship in schools or universities.
NOTES[1] The area remains muddled because the Supreme Court has never addressed a student Internet speech case and has not addressed a pure First Amendment student speech/press case since 1988. As the Pennsylvania Supreme Court wrote in 2002 in J.S. v. Bethlehem Area School District: "[u]nfortunately, the United States Supreme Court has not revisited this area for fifteen years. " Moreover, the advent of the Internet has complicated analysis of restrictions on speech." The issue becomes only more important as more and more students not only access the Internet frequently but also create their own home pages on social-networking sites such as MySpace or Facebook. (See Student Online Expression: What Do the Internet and MySpace Mean for Students' First Amendment Rights?). https://www.freedomforuminstitute.org/first-amendment-center/topics/freedom-of-speech-2/k-12-public-school-student-expression/cyberspeech/
[2] Censorship and the First Amendment in Schools: A Resource Guide https://www.webjunction.org/documents/webjunction/Censorship_in_Schools_Learning_Speaking_and_Thinking_Freely_The
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