mg_ridgeview t1_jdlu9hm wrote on March 25, 2023 at 10:36 AM

I don't know what was ever made better in history by banning a book. If you ban something, all you're going to do is get people more interested in the work, not less. Want to get a kid to try to do (or read) something? Tell them they can't.

TheBoss701 t1_jdlw77p wrote on March 25, 2023 at 11:02 AM

It's a good way to advertise a book for sure

1945BestYear t1_jdlyelg wrote on March 25, 2023 at 11:29 AM

I mean, the Allied Control Council that effectively ran Germany immediately after World War II banned and pulled out of circulation massive amounts of literature that was either explicitly or was more indirectly associated with Nazi ideology. I'm only semi-flippant when I characterise that less as traditional censorship and more as the rest of the human race telling Germany to touch grass and read another book.