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> The irony ist that it should be easy to get at least some of the books get blocked in the US as well. Not for copyright reasons, but because of the content.

• renholder 8y ago
  Correct, it looks like censorship, rather than out-right banning. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_censorship_in_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_censorship_in_the_United_... ...but it's not like the United States has never tried to ban books in the recent past. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Anarchist_Cookbook#Legality https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Anarchist_Cookbook#Legalit...
  • ameliaquining 8y ago
    That article lists four incidents that took place outside the U.S., plus one instance of what turns out to be the book's author arguing that its publisher should voluntarily stop printing it. No U.S. government censorship. Obviously there've been cases in the U.S. that came closer to government censorship of literature than this, but in general it remains the case that it's nearly impossible to get a book banned in the U.S.
• weinzierl 8y ago
  I meant blocked by search engines, social media and parental control services whose algorithms and employees wouldn't necessarily consider the cultural context. If we leave out the context some of the works could be considered text book examples for content that is blocked.