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Kill them before they read stuff: "I would rather give a healthy boy or a healthy girl a phial of prussic acid than this novel. Poison kills the body, but moral poison kills the soul."

James Douglas, editor of the Sunday Express, on Radclyffe Hall's The Well of Loneliness. The book was banned in Britain until 1949.

Some background reading on the new law (purportedly) against child pornography:

Post by

penguin_attie, incl. links.
Netzpolitik.org: "The Dawing of Internet Censorship in Germany".
Protesters aren't paranoid: Already there's talk of censoring other websites , such as 'Killerspiele', i.e. games like Counter-Strike etc. (In German.)

Current Mood: worried

LJ has posted a draft of the new abuse policies - links are here via

the_lj_herald.

The American Library Association's Banned Books Week (this year: September 29-October 6) is a yearly event held to encourage readers to fight censorship and to enjoy the books which have been challenged over the last years (yes, Harry Potter still makes the top of the list). In the face of ~~Strikethrough07~~ and all the other craziness that has been going on this year on lj, events like these make me happy. As does this nifty bag which you can order here.