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    Default Can you name one time in History where it was a good thing to ban or burn books?

    I can't think of one time where I would support this kind of thing. I get that a publisher can decide what to publish, and that this isn't government action. I am not conflating these things. I am just thinking that removing books from the public sphere has proven to not be a positive action when we look back through history.
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    What a silly issue


    There are millions of copies


    This company made a marketing decision not to make more copies because no one will buy a book that is deemed to send flawed messages to kids


    The right is utterly transparent


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    Quote Originally Posted by Damocles View Post
    I can't think of one time where I would support this kind of thing. I get that a publisher can decide what to publish, and that this isn't government action. I am not conflating these things. I am just thinking that removing books from the public sphere has proven to not be a positive action when we look back through history.
    The Nazis thought it was a good thing.

    Anyway, there is no ban on Dr. Seuss books. They're still at libraries and you can still order copies.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Damocles View Post
    I can't think of one time where I would support this kind of thing. I get that a publisher can decide what to publish, and that this isn't government action. I am not conflating these things. I am just thinking that removing books from the public sphere has proven to not be a positive action when we look back through history.
    It is shocking how much stuff happens now with little objection from the elites that back when I was a kid almost no one would have put up with all, much less silently.

    This is your sign that people on the large are rotted out, which is your sign that things will get very bad.
    This illegal illegitimate regime that runs America is at fault...not me.... they do not represent me and I have long objected to their crimes against humanity.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Damocles View Post
    I can't think of one time where I would support this kind of thing. I get that a publisher can decide what to publish, and that this isn't government action. I am not conflating these things. I am just thinking that removing books from the public sphere has proven to not be a positive action when we look back through history.
    I think that removing certain books is not right. But one of the best things about a country with free media is that we have the right to learn about when certain books are banned from library shelves. Burning books implies total eradication so using that word is inflammatory, so to speak. lol Certain books have been publicized as banned since before I was born. The cool thing about publicizing that is that it makes free and intelligent minds want to read them. It has always been so, throughout human history. I've read dozens of them myself. You?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Damocles View Post
    I can't think of one time where I would support this kind of thing. I get that a publisher can decide what to publish, and that this isn't government action. I am not conflating these things. I am just thinking that removing books from the public sphere has proven to not be a positive action when we look back through history.
    Well, according to Phantasmal the word 'Nigger' should be banned and I'm assuming all books and movies that use words of that nature.
    I believe she feels our Negro friends are like little children, and will possibly wet themselves if such a word is ever uttered.

    Then again, she's told me the US Constitution guarantees that Muslim children have the Right to bring their Prayer Rugs to Public School.
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    Quote Originally Posted by ThatOwlWoman View Post
    I think that removing certain books is not right. But one of the best things about a country with free media is that we have the right to learn about when certain books are banned from library shelves. Burning books implies total eradication so using that word is inflammatory, so to speak. lol Certain books have been publicized as banned since before I was born. The cool thing about publicizing that is that it makes free and intelligent minds want to read them. It has always been so, throughout human history. I've read dozens of them myself. You?
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect

    Sometimes I wonder if in some case it was done on purpose to boost sales.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Damocles View Post
    I can't think of one time where I would support this kind of thing. I get that a publisher can decide what to publish, and that this isn't government action. I am not conflating these things. I am just thinking that removing books from the public sphere has proven to not be a positive action when we look back through history.
    any book that is no longer published should be released to the public domain as an ebook.....(though I am sure these six have been uploaded as torrents a dozen times today already)......
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    Quote Originally Posted by AProudLefty View Post
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect

    Sometimes I wonder if in some case it was done on purpose to boost sales.
    Quite possible! Forbidden fruit tastes the best. lol
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    I literally donated copies of every one of those books about a year ago. Now some are selling for ridiculous prices. I'm sad.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Damocles View Post
    I can't think of one time where I would support this kind of thing. I get that a publisher can decide what to publish, and that this isn't government action. I am not conflating these things. I am just thinking that removing books from the public sphere has proven to not be a positive action when we look back through history.
    Maybe when we didn't teach Mein Kampf in American schools?

    I know, I know, commie censorship, amirite?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Damocles View Post
    I can't think of one time where I would support this kind of thing. I get that a publisher can decide what to publish, and that this isn't government action. I am not conflating these things. I am just thinking that removing books from the public sphere has proven to not be a positive action when we look back through history.
    No. Information should never be destroyed. It is wise to limit information to age appropriate or for security reasons. Why have a book on homemade poisons in an Elementary School library?

    It would never be appropriate to burn books just because someone doesn't like the information.
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    Can one still get them on the kindle?

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    Quote Originally Posted by evince View Post
    What a silly issue


    There are millions of copies


    This company made a marketing decision not to make more copies because no one will buy a book that is deemed to send flawed messages to kids


    The right is utterly transparent


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    you may be the dumbest cunt on earth. damo won't say it. I will.

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