> Until relatively recently in the US, "banning books" was widely considered one of those morally reprehensible things that only authoritarian governments did,

> Until relatively recently in the US, "banning books" was widely considered one of those morally reprehensible things that only authoritarian governments did, and people were outraged that the US did it at all. Was it, really? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_censorship_in_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_censorship_in_the_United_... Controversial, sure; but I'm not sure it was as universally loathed as you seem to think.