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Is there even one book in the past 30 or 40 years that the state or federal government has "banned"? A challenge from a concerned citizen is not a ban on books and never has been, unless you want to revise the meaning of the word.
09/29/09
-- Doug Archer, librarian and past chair of the ALA's Intellectual Freedom Committee
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[www.ala.org]
09/29/09
That is actually the case, however. It's only censorship if the gov't. does it, by definition.
Otherwise, it would be censorship whenever a parent doesn't let their kid watch a movie.
-Kle.
09/29/09
Is it reaching a bit? Yes. Is it hamming up what could otherwise be called 'controversial books'? Yeah, probably. Still, any time someone makes a decision that a book is not allowed to be in a certain area, then in my mind that's considered to be a banned book. Sure its not a government ban, but the fact that someone or a group of people made it their mission to disallow that book from being made available to another group counts as banning in my mind.
The other part is this is an attempt to raise awareness with regards to the very real threats to free speech that are out there. Just because the government hasn't banned anything in the past few decades doesn't mean they won't do so in the future, especially if people just let it happen.
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No, it is not. Censorship applies only to a government. Perhaps you should check a dictionary.
-Kle.
09/30/09
"Still, any time someone makes a decision that a book is not allowed to be in a certain area, then in my mind that's considered to be a banned book. Sure its not a government ban, but the fact that someone or a group of people made it their mission to disallow that book from being made available to another group counts as banning in my mind."
That's like saying that any time someone is murdered, it's a death squad, or ethnic cleansing, or any time that someone goes to church it's a violation of separate church and state. Actually, the latter is a stronger case.
-Kle.
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If I decree something, who the hell cares?
-Kle.
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Please support free thinking.
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