Is Book Censorship Ethical?

8/2/2019 Is Book Censorship Ethical?

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At the!"#!

London Book Fair$


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CHINA

was the guest of honor!


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The "# Chinese

authors at the Fair

were selected by the

General Administration

of Press and Publishing(GAPP)


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The GAPP has the legal authority to screen,

censor, and ban any print, electronic, or Internet

publication in China.

That agency also has the power to deny people

the right to publish, and completely shut down

any publisher who fails to follow its dictates.-Congressional-Executive Commission on China


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Several other Chinese authors$

including those that now live inLondon$ were not invited to the Fair

because they %and their books& had been

banned in China!


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For the British cultural establishment to

be shaking hands with the Chinese head of

propaganda, a man responsible for the

banning and censoring of books and the

imprisonment of writers, is disgraceful."

-Ma Jian

(banned author since 1987)


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Meanwhile$ in Tuscon%

books focusing onrace, ethnicity, & oppression

are being removed from

classrooms!


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Mexican AmericanHistory


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Censorship


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A change in the access status of material,based on the content of the work and made

by a governing authority or itsrepresentatives. Such changes include

exclusion, restriction, removal, or

age/grade level changes.

-American Library Association


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3 main reasons

sexually'explicit

o(ensive language

unsuited to any age group


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London and Tuscon are only" cities out of countless

others supporting censorship


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Top 10 Challenged Books"###'"##):

Creative Commons, Wikimedia


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Top 10 Challenged Books"###'"##):

Creative Commons, Wikimedia