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A censor would remove the offending books from circulation. No one is burning the old books. The original book will continue to be found in used book stores, ch
by op00to 4y ago
A censor would remove the offending books from circulation. No one is burning the old books. The original book will continue to be found in used book stores, church rummage sales, parents end tables, and so on for years and years to come. Scans are certainly available online at the various pirate sites, so likely available for my lifetime at least.
Please explain how releasing an edited, updated version of a book that is more marketable in today’s world is censorship when the original works are fully available.
- dustfinger 4y ago> A censor would remove the offending books from circulation That is actually not what censoring a book means. According to the Oxford Dictionary [1]: > to remove the parts of a book, film, etc. that are considered to be offensive or a political threat Regarding your last comment: > Please explain how releasing an edited, updated version of a book that is more marketable in today’s world is censorship when the original works are fully available. That would be by definition. Regarding your second comment: > The original book will continue to be found in used book stores, church rummage sales, parents end tables, and so on for years and years to come. Scans are certainly available online at the various pirate sites, so likely available for my lifetime at least. They would be around. They would become rarer and rarer overtime. Most people would grow up believing that the author wrote the censored version of the book. Moreover, they would grow up believing that the way the book was written was reflective of the setting of the book in our actual history. That is the way of things and the censurers know it. [1]: https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/censor_2?q=censoring https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/englis...