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 Banned by Someone, Somewhere, Sometime

"We believe attempts to censor ideas to which we have access--whether in books, magazines, plays, works of art, television, movies or song--are not simply isolated instances of harassment by diverse special-interest groups. Rather they are part of a growing pattern of increasing intolerance which is changing the fabric of America. . .

"Censorship cannot eliminate evil. It can only kill freedom. We believe Americns have the right to buy, stores have the right to sell, authors have the right to write and publishers have the right to publish Constitutionally-protected material. Period."

Excerpt from a letter to 28 newspapers, signed by Ed Morrow, president, American Booksellers Assn. and Harry Hoffman, president, Walden Book Co., Inc. (1990).


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Recent Incidents of Censorship

  1. Read About the Big Story in Book Control: Proposed Merger of Barnes & Noble and Ingram Book Company.

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  3. A Mississipi School District bans a book about censorship: Fahrenheit 451.

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  5. Customs Censors Seize Irish Myths & Hellyer's Books as "Hate" at Canada's Border Crossing.

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  7. Free Market Economist, Ludwig von Mises' Papers Discovered in Moscow.

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  9. Media Attempts to Discredit the Internet; Steve and Cokie Roberts on the Horrors of Electronic Democracy.

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  11. Virginia Court Says Internet Blocking for Adult Library Users is Unconstitutional. 


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