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Religion in the News: June 2003
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banned books
November 09, 2000

Believe it or not, book banning still exists. It's kind of a quaint notion, really, that in the midst of the current revolution in information exchange (not to mention the unfortunate continuing decline in extracurricular reading) books can still pose a threat to anyone's sense of moral or intellectual security. But they do. Why do people still want to censor books? Perhaps it's because keeping a book out of the local high school library seems a lot easier than trying to censor the Internet or HBO, and as such it's an easy way for prudish control freaks to get their jollies.

Banned Books
For a different perspective on banned books, here's an editorial from a racist bigot!

The Most Frequently Banned Books In The 1990s
'James and the Giant Peach'? Puh-leeze . . .

BiblioBytes
More objectionable titles, with explanations. The mind reels.

Huckleberry Finn Today
Jim Zwick, the 'Mining Company' Mark Twain guide, has put together a fantastic tour through the various censorship battles that are still, over 100 years after its publication, being waged against 'Huckleberry Finn'! Includes Twain's own thoughts on book banning circa 1885.

Banned Book Week: Free People Read Freely
Great resource from the 'American Library Association'.

Bonfire Of Liberties
The bonfire was a very efficient form of censorship in an age when books were handwritten and existed in few copies. But in the era of printing and mass markets, burning a book has been reduced to merely a shocking gesture. To be effective, censors have had to devise other methods of restricting access to publications deemed offensive or dangerous. A must see!

Index Online
'Index On Censorship', the bi-monthly magazine for free speech, widens the debates on freedom of expression with some of the world's best writers. Through interviews, reportage, banned literature and polemic, Index shows how free speech affects the political issues of the moment.

Hated Books
Here's something to chew on. Race hate literature; CD's of KKK country and western comedy songs from the 1960s and other 'fun' stuff like that. It's the price of freedom, kids. Buyer beware!

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