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Re:The Internet Will Be the Death of Us by skookumchuck on Wednesday October 31, 2018 @05:40AM (#18344332)
There used to be calls to ban comic books because they were corrupting the youth.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seduction_of_the_Innocent

"Seduction of the Innocent is a book by American psychiatrist Fredric Wertham, published in 1954, that warned that comic books were a negative form of popular literature and a serious cause of juvenile delinquency. The book was taken seriously at the time, and was a minor bestseller that created alarm in parents and galvanized them to campaign for censorship. At the same time, a U.S. Congressional inquiry was launched into the comic book industry."

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Re:The Internet Will Be the Death of Us by throwaway8879 on Wednesday October 31, 2018 @06:00AM (#18344408)
A somewhat non-related question. Do you guys think a book like Rushdie's Satanic Verses would ever be printed today? I was thinking about this today morning.
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Re:The Internet Will Be the Death of Us by pjc50 on Wednesday October 31, 2018 @08:04AM (#18344942)
Yes, absolutely. The nearest parallel to Rushdie would be someone like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayaan_Hirsi_Ali

The challenge is probably getting something as subtle as Satanic Verses printed; there's a market for overt islamophobia, but they're not interested in analytical heretical views of actual muslims.

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