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Books can do this too.
by bongodongobob 1y ago
Books can do this too.
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- derektank 1y agoMajor book publishers have sensitivity readers that evaluate whether or not a book can be "safely" published nowadays. And even historically there have always been at least a few things publishers would refuse to print.
- selfhoster11 1y agoAll it means is that the Overton window on "should we censor speech" has shifted in the direction of less freedom.
- snozolli 1y agoGP said major publishers. There's nothing stopping you from printing out your book and spiral binding it by hand, if that's what it takes to get your ideas into the world. Companies having standards for what they publish isn't censorship.
- bongodongobob 1y agoRight, the books you are allowed to read is controlled by the people with the power to make them.
- ben_w 1y agoThere's a reason the inherititors of the coyright* refused to allow more copies of Mein Kampf to be produced until that copyright expired. * the federal state of Bavaria
- nofriend 1y agoWas there? It seems like that was the perfect natural experiment then. So what was the outcome? Was there a sudden rash of holocausts the year that publishing started again?
- ben_w 1y ago> Was there a sudden rash of holocausts the year that publishing started again? Bit worse than the baseline, I'd say. You judge: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_genocides https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_genocides 2016 was also first Trump, Brexit, and roughly when the AfD (who are metaphorically wading ankle deep in the waters of legal trouble of this topic) made the transition from "joke party" to "political threat".