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This is the 21st century equivalent to burning books.
by collias 9y ago
This is the 21st century equivalent to burning books.
- ragequitta 9y agoIf those books were nothing but gun sale magazines and escort service advertisements I suppose you're right.
- Rebelgecko 9y agoand also manuals for how to build things that the librarians dont like
- guelo 9y agoNo, it's more like a bookstore not selling books they don't like.
- dilap 9y agoWell, the subs themselves contained lots of content that was wiped without warning, so in that sense it is like book burning. Anyway, hopefully this'll all help stimulate the creation of actually-censorship-resistant platforms.
- dingo_bat 9y agoOnly if that bookstore is the world's only reasonable choice to buy books.
- manfredo 9y agoMore like bookstores refusing to sell any books on chemistry, out of fear that they will be held liable if some person uses one to make a bomb. Plenty of the things forbidden by these policy guidelines are entirely legal. Manufacturing firearms, manufacturing ammunition, and manufacturing magazines is legal in most states.
- wu-ikkyu 9y agoReminds me of the RATM song, Bulls on Parade: "They don't gotta burn tha books, they just remove 'em While arms warehouses fill as quick as tha cells Rally round tha family, pocket full of shells"
- cup-of-tea 9y agoI think a more apt analogy is a centralised printing press refusing to print books they don't like. Maybe you could go to another country to read the book there, but that's not possible for most people.
- dublinclontarf 9y agoAnd what remains is an empty store. Fantastic.
- est 9y agoThis is the U.S. century equivalent to Chinese-style self-censorship.
- thinkingemote 9y agoThe lesson in Fahrenheit 451 (the famous book about book burning) is that the laws were initially changed to burn pornography, obscenity and disgusting books, the whole country, everyone, approved these laws, and then the scope widened.....
- Zak 9y agoPolicy and mechanism. A dangerous mechanism introduced to support a good policy is still a dangerous mechanism. Proponents of policies requiring expansions of power should be very careful about the consequences of giving that power to someone with different goals, because that will happen at some point.