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Path: news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Ross Clark <benlizro@ihug.co.nz> Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written,alt.usage.english Subject: Re: 25 Classic Books That Have Been Banned Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2025 17:56:01 +1200 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 44 Message-ID: <101jedj$325ue$1@dont-email.me> References: <03gqqj562r4vi0kpi2vl8flsi59jsbot56@4ax.com> <volvhp$34acl$1@dont-email.me> <100r948$bvlu$1@dont-email.me> <100u0ld$15sv8$2@dont-email.me> <10197p8$3pm7g$2@dont-email.me> <1019fka$3r9op$1@dont-email.me> <101j4k4$2u8f5$2@dont-email.me> Reply-To: r.clark@auckland.ac.nz MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Mon, 02 Jun 2025 07:56:04 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="c6caeb0bc3d7fa6863804d7ceb092295"; logging-data="3217358"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19Q4GtqjqZmZ/hQvO/LcEszCiNbYE/5r3w=" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.0; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.9.1 Cancel-Lock: sha1:l3vZurJXrz8z1nS6wSDPWA/4IAo= Content-Language: en-GB In-Reply-To: <101j4k4$2u8f5$2@dont-email.me> On 2/06/2025 3:08 p.m., Robert Carnegie wrote: > On 29/05/2025 12:15, Ross Clark wrote: >> On 29/05/2025 9:01 p.m., Robert Carnegie wrote: >>> On 25/05/2025 03:52, Mike Van Pelt wrote: >>>> In article <100r948$bvlu$1@dont-email.me>, >>>> Robert Carnegie <rja.carnegie@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>> So some of the "top 100" seem to be (1) not >>>>> actually banned, or (2) not the most popular. >>>> >>>> I still want to see a "Banned Book" list that is *books* >>>> *that* *are* *actually* *banned*, as in not permitted to >>>> be printed or sold. >>>> >>>> This "A grammar school librarian determines that this book >>>> inappropriate for a grammar school library", or even >>>> "One parent complained about this book, and their complaint >>>> was reviewed and filed appropriately" is a pretty weak sauce >>>> definition of "banned". >>> >>> I think that being seized and publicly burned >>> should meet a reasonable condition of "banned", >> >> No, it doesn't. Banning is not merely hating or destroying. It's an >> institutional act, by a government, church, school board or whatever, >> decreeing that the book may not be sold/printed/possessed or whatever, >> by persons within that institution's jurisdiction. >> >>> and that happened in the U.S. to Harry Potter. >> >> Couple of times in the US (within this century), and once in Poland, >> judging by a quick search. >> >>> As for the year 2025, watch this space. >>> >>> Textbooks for anarchism, terrorism, and >>> trade unionism also are dangerous to be >>> seen with. >> >> Around where you live, you mean? > > People are put in jail for possessing some > of these, yeah. Could you safely give an example?