> I find it correct that material that is immoral and lewd for its own sake be restricted in some way. I think freedom means that we get to decide for ourselv

> I find it correct that material that is immoral and lewd for its own sake be restricted in some way. I think freedom means that we get to decide for ourselves what is "immoral" or "lewd" and can choose to read or not read those books accordingly. I'm guessing you've never read "Forever Amber" or "Naked Lunch" or even "Howl", but you might just be surprised at what your would-be masters decided was too explicit for you to be allowed to read. > I don't see any actual book banning or burning. You must have missed the parts where books were banned by states and even where in the 60s the federal government forced a publisher to pull all copies of a book from the shelves of bookstores and to stop publication of it entirely just to appease a foreign country that was embarrassed by the truths the book exposed about them.