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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/w
by 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 agoThat 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.