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20 banned books that may surprise you
- RexRollman 14y agoWhat is it with some of these websites? A list of twenty banned books that requires twenty page loads to read? No thank you.
- aptwebapps 14y agoHere's the print view: http://www.csmonitor.com/layout/set/print/Books/2012/1003/20-banned-books-that-may-surprise-you/Harriet-the-Spy-by-Louise-Fitzhugh http://www.csmonitor.com/layout/set/print/Books/2012/1003/20... Edit: Although I don't know why I bothered.
- pan69 14y agoCreating pages for the purpose of SEO. I hope Google comes down hard on these guys.
- singlow 14y agoWhy is it considered a "ban" when a library chooses not to shelve a book? This is a poorly written article aside from the paging format. I only read three pages of it but by the third I still had not seen any explanation of an actual banning. One it says was banned with no explanation, the other two it says were banned by libraries. I checked out Wikipedia and all three (Oz, Harriet and Merriam-Webster) were "banned" by school libraries. No student or family was prevented from owning or reading these books. The schools simply chose not to put them on their shelves, or removed them from their shelves, and might have publicly criticized them.
- betelnut 14y agoI think this kind of behavior is considered a ban because it doesn't take a formal government decree to effectively preclude someone from being able to access undesirable literature. If your school/community library is your main source of literature, then if you can't get it there, you can't get it anywhere. This argument probably held truer a decade ago, but I'd wager that it's still disproportionately true in less wealthy/technical communities.