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In the U.S., books can be challenged by individuals and sometimes, if the demand is great enough they will be removed from school and libraries. However, this is not government book banning such as occurs in other countries. Anyone can still buy the book. Parents who send children to school do have the right to request changes to curriculum, as do people who pay taxes for libraries that in their community can have voice their opinion about which are purchased. Owners of bookstores (online or physical) should be able to determine what books they carry. Those who say they do not have the right to do this are limiting the rights of other people. If a book is actually banned in the U.S. they would not be available. But actually they're quite easy to purchase. However, nobody should be forced to buy them.
2600:8803:F506:7A00:DC71:8FB9:5898:A617 (
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22:34, 8 February 2022 (UTC)reply
You have it backwards. This list should be officially banned books. Mostly empty. The other link you provided can be for the performative politicians like yourself.
73.221.104.246 (
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15:00, 20 October 2023 (UTC)reply
I can go on Amazon and buy every one of these books. Nothing here is banned in the US. I assume the whole list is more of a political statement by the individual authors. If you're going to put historical bannings be sure to include that they didn't let me read batman comics in school twenty years ago. Better document that.
73.221.104.246 (
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14:58, 20 October 2023 (UTC)reply
Shockingly, the US isn't the only nation in the world.
If you'd actually read the article, you'd realize this list includes historical banning, and yes, some of them were banned by the governments of Democracies.
Bkatcher (
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00:18, 27 December 2023 (UTC)reply
I did read the article. The short description says “This article is about books banned by governments.” No modern, democratic government bans books, none. Some schools and libraries, locally restrict/ban books in various countries, but that subject already has 100 articles. This article is misleading. It makes no commentary about this being a historical listing and it makes no commentary about modern views. It also says nothing about theocratic and autocratic governments that still ban books in the 21 century. It is basically useless to any uninformed reader. An encyclopedia can do better.
2600:1700:1111:5940:B9C1:7C8F:22C5:6745 (
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03:11, 27 December 2023 (UTC)reply
And none of those books are still banned by modern democracies, yet that failed to be mentioned. One sentence would do wonders or a split between historical and current bans. How could anyone not think that this is context that matters? It should certainly matter to an “encyclopedia”.
2600:1700:1111:5940:B9C1:7C8F:22C5:6745 (
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06:48, 27 December 2023 (UTC)reply
Please wait until this discussion has been completed or died out. I myself do not have an opinion on the matter, but if you keep reverting we will just protect the article and you lose physical ability to edit it. Please read
WP:BRD.
Ymblanter (
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08:01, 28 January 2024 (UTC)reply
If you don’t have a position why are you reverting me? You realize the other party goes months without editing? This kind of garbage is why Wikipedia is losing donors and influence. My comments are straight forward, reasonable and obviously not vandalism.
2600:1700:1111:5940:8486:A76E:6775:9A26 (
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18:48, 28 January 2024 (UTC)reply
This list arbitrarily referenced the ban of the Bible in Spain many years ago and for one denominational translation in the 21st century. This was fairly misleading presentation (potentially
undue weight to the plight of the banned denomination). As such, I have instead created a new section unambiguously indicating that banning of the Bible is a considerably broader topic with its own main article.--
Jeffro77Talk07:25, 19 May 2024 (UTC)reply
Australia
Australia is not included. The bans here come under 'injunction'. They even banned the book about a murdered criminal (Michael McGurk). If I find the data in my old files I will add. For a while it was still on amazon as 'not available'. The author was prohibited from speaking about it. Banned books should be translated to to keep them alive.
2001:8003:A070:7F00:CD8E:7C27:A108:7C8 (
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01:05, 27 May 2024 (UTC)reply