Hong Kong: books by pro-democracy activists disappear from library shelves

Re:Hong Kong: books by pro-democracy activists disappear fro... by jansan on Sunday July 05, 2020 @09:42AM (#23738575)

What do you say about classic literature being banned from classrooms because people were unable to see the content in the context of the time it was written?

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Re:Hong Kong: books by pro-democracy activists disappear fro... by praptak on Sunday July 05, 2020 @09:51AM (#23738627)

I see it as an order of magnitude less dangerous than censorship at the library level.

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Re:Hong Kong: books by pro-democracy activists disappear fro... by jariel on Sunday July 05, 2020 @05:29PM (#23742201)

This is upside down.

Banning books from school is 10x worse than censorship at the library.

All this library talk is a little moot because nobody goes to the library. How many copies of said 'banned books' do HK libraries even have? 10? 20?

The Internet is the Library.

But the information taught in class will define an entire generation.

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Re:Hong Kong: books by pro-democracy activists disappear fro... by jansan on Sunday July 05, 2020 @10:30AM (#23738944)

Here is an extensive list of frequently challenged and banned books

http://www.ala.org/advocacy/bbooks/frequentlychallengedbooks...

Some school libraries appear to be being very active on banning certain books.

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Re:Hong Kong: books by pro-democracy activists disappear fro... by praptak on Sunday July 05, 2020 @11:13AM (#23739270)

Bigoted parents challenging a book in a school library is not comparable to a state using law to intimidate public libraries into removing books.

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