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Free Speech and Book Bans — How to Think About Libraries, Access, and Censorship (John Chrastka)
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…
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