Thread: "We can ban books!"... Hope and Change (TM), coming your way!

This doesn't even seem to be about banning books per se, so much as limiting the ability for campaigners to campaign via the medium of books. There isn't anything particularly wrong with that, imo.

It's not necessarily a bad thing to have a limited amount of censorship going on - what makes it a problem is when the censorship becomes intrusive and gains a dangerous agenda. I have no problem with the idea of censorship for things such as materials promoting hate, child pornography, snuff films etc., so it's actually counterproductive to cry 'censorship is bad!' when it's not being used in a bad way.

Originally Posted by coqauvin

This doesn't even seem to be about banning books per se, so much as limiting the ability for campaigners to campaign via the medium of books. There isn't anything particularly wrong with that, imo.

It's not necessarily a bad thing to have a limited amount of censorship going on - what makes it a problem is when the censorship becomes intrusive and gains a dangerous agenda. I have no problem with the idea of censorship for things such as materials promoting hate, child pornography, snuff films etc., so it's actually counterproductive to cry 'censorship is bad!' when it's not being used in a bad way.

But isn't censorship by its very nature intrusive?