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Don’t Read That Book!
For centuries, the Catholic Church maintained an Index of Prohibited Books (Index librorum prohibitorum), a catalogue of books, the reading of which was forbidden to… -
Still Banning Kids’ Books in the 21st Century
by JT I have been watching with some bemusement the attempts of some Christian fundamentalists in the USA to have the Harry Potter books removed… -
On Censorship
By: JT ‘If any word or expression is of such a nature that the first impression it excites is an impression of obscenity, that word… -
Should we burn that guilty book?
by: JT Last Sunday, Pastor Terry Jones who had earlier vowed to burn a pile of Qurans on his invented International Burn a Quran Day,… -
Banning Magazines
In February this year, Indigo Books, Canada’s largest bookstore chain (with over 50% of the market) refused to carry an issue of the Western Standard,… -
Let people read what they want
by: Manny I think Mark Morford’s words regarding “The Golden Compass” and the attempts at bans and boycotts are right on the mark. One of… -
The Return of the Book Burners
Back in January, 2002 I wrote about attempts to remove the Harry Potter books from school libraries. Now that the movie, The Golden Compass, is… -
1984 comes to West Bend
Apparently there is currently a controversy in West Bend, Wisconsin about whether a book in the library should be placed in the youth section or… -
Walk away and don’t look back
by: JT Two stories out of Afghanistan caught my attention this week. The first deals with how the Afghani government treats women. EU censors own… -
The Great Divide
I was looking at a discussion about Facebook’s policy of removing posted images of breastfeeding women as they are somehow considered inappropriate. One woman, arguing…