What do you say about classic literature being banned from classrooms because pe...

praptak · on July 5, 2020

I see it as an order of magnitude less dangerous than censorship at the library level.

jariel · on July 5, 2020

This is upside down.

Banning books from school is 10x worse than censorship at the library.

All this library talk is a little moot because nobody goes to the library. How many copies of said 'banned books' do HK libraries even have? 10? 20?

The Internet is the Library.

But the information taught in class will define an entire generation.

jansan · on July 5, 2020

Here is an extensive list of frequently challenged and banned books

http://www.ala.org/advocacy/bbooks/frequentlychallengedbooks...

Some school libraries appear to be being very active on banning certain books.

praptak · on July 5, 2020

Bigoted parents challenging a book in a school library is not comparable to a state using law to intimidate public libraries into removing books.