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Perhaps one needs to be more, Specific.
A Book, is in a group of, things, covered by, ‘…Freedom of Speech...". So a, ‘book’ even though, it is comprised of words, printed on paper, and bound together, (and now a electronic Facsimile of, on a ‘reading’ device or a computer). Is simply a POV of that person. Clearly under the, ‘…Freedom of Speech…”. To say, ‘…freedom of press…” is just one Part, of the overall, ‘…Freedom of Speech…”.
Now for the, ‘freedom’ of, ‘Books’ which has now been chained to, ‘press’. Just go to your favorite browser, and type in: ‘Book Banning In France’. Or, 'Book Banning'. Then read the various sights, and their, POV. (Gonna do that again on a Rainy Nasty Day) You will find statements like below, and they are Very Interesting. (Didn’t find anything about France Banning Toast though !) “…In 2016, a television ad which advocated that babies with Down Syndrome shouldn't be aborted solely because of their syndrome ran. It was ruled anti-abortion speech and removed….” “…Most recently, several acts ordered by Nicolas Sarkozy, then-Interior Minister and former President of the Republic (until 2012), have been criticized as forms of censorship…” “…Libraries sometimes avoid purchasing controversial books, and the personal opinions of librarians have at times impacted book selection….” “…2010 was a difficult year for Internet freedom in France. The offices of several online media firms and their journalists were targeted for break-ins and court summons and pressured to identify their sources. As a result, France has been added to Reporters Without Borders list of "Countries Under Surveillance"...” “…On 14 October 2011 a French court ordered French Internet service providers to block the Copwatch Nord Paris I-D-F website. The website shows pictures and videos of police officers arresting suspects, taunting protesters and allegedly committing acts of violence against members of ethnic minorities….” “…April 2013 DCRI forced the deletion of the article when it summoned a volunteer with administrator's access to the French language Wikipedia and ordered him to take down the article that had been online since 2009. DCRI claimed the article contained classified military information and broke French law….” ETC/ETC/ETC/ETC/ETC/ETC
Found these Very Interesting: “…Orwell, (Animal House), found that no publisher would print the book, due to its criticism of the USSR, an important ally of Britain in the War. Once published, the book was banned in the USSR and other communist countries. In 2002, the novel was banned in the schools of the United Arab Emirates, because it contained text or images that goes against Islamic values…”
(Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland Lewis Carroll) “…The censor General Ho Chien believed that attributing human language to animals was an insult to humans. He feared that the book would teach children to regard humans and animals on the same level, which would be “disastrous”…" So Interesting, because that is Exactly what Walt Disney did, (Well Known Anti-Gun) with ‘Bambi”. It started a generation of kids to identify that, ‘Bambi’, was a Sentient being, because it could ’talk/think’. So those kids, grew up teaching their kids, “Oh ya Can’t Hunt ‘Bambi’. Then those kids grew up, teaching their kids, ‘Guns Are Bad’, simply because they had NO association with them.
“…At present, the Bible has been banned in Saudi Arabia. In a number of countries, bible translation, distribution, sale or promotion is prohibited or made difficult, and the Bible may be considered extremist materials…” (Catch -22) “…Banned in several US states: in 1972, it was banned in Strongsville, Ohio (overturned in 1976)…”
( Doctor Zhivago) ”…Banned in the Soviet Union until 1988 for criticizing life in Russia after the Russian Revolution. When its author, Boris Pasternak, won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1958 he was forced to reject it under government pressure.…”
(Remember the, ‘The Satanic Verses’, by Salman Rushdie) “… led to their author having a death warrant put on the author’s head. In fact, few modern books have as bloody a publication history. As a result of this book, had to go into hiding for an entire decade after Iran’s Ayatollah issued a fatwa, a fatwa that also led to the death of Rushdie’s Japanese translator. Decried by many in the Muslim world for its apparent blasphemy, it was burned in the streets in Britain and around the Islamic world….”
That’s enough, I could spend Hours reading this. It is Fascinating History. But alas, the dew is off the grass, time to climb on the lawn mower.
The point is, no one has marched to Capital Hill with a gun. Yet, books that, ‘were’, banned here, are now NOT, banned, due to people raising their voices and giving their POV. Which, someone, CAN NOT, say: ‘ you will do this, or you will be shipped off to North Montana in Winter simply because I said so’. Because Of ???????????
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