{"id":12625,"date":"2013-04-20T20:55:37","date_gmt":"2013-04-21T03:55:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=12625"},"modified":"2013-04-20T21:24:03","modified_gmt":"2013-04-21T04:24:03","slug":"you-cant-read-that-30","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=12625","title":{"rendered":"You Can’t Read That!"},"content":{"rendered":"

You Can\u2019t Read That!\u00a0is a periodic post featuring news about banned books and censorship.<\/p>\n

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More than a year later, activist groups are still trying to combat<\/a> the infamous Tucson school book bannings<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Here’s a highly suspect list titled top five banned books<\/a> (suspect in that while all five books have been banned, they aren’t the “top five” on any survey I’ve ever heard of) … but the writer’s takes on why these idiosyncratic picks were banned are spot on.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, here’s a real<\/em> list: the American Library Association’s Top Ten Most Challenged Books of 2012<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Power to the people? A Santa Fe citizen takes it upon himself to ban an alternative weekly newspaper that offended him … by stealing all the copies<\/a>!<\/p>\n

A librarian considers Persopolis<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A fascinating essay on the history of attempts to ban Gone With the Wind<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

From Moms Demand Action, a jarring poster:<\/p>\n

\"Little-Red-Ridinghood\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Too cute … how censorship can make what’s being censored seem far more interesting than it actually is:
\n[youtube]http:\/\/youtu.be\/QGh8IIr11vg[\/youtube]<\/p>\n

Is the world really watching Iceland’s plan to ban online porn<\/a>?<\/p>\n

I finally watched Django Unchained<\/em>. My first reaction: what the hell is it with these eruptions of blood and tissue whenever anyone gets shot? Looks like the Chinese censors had the same reaction<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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