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Re:Dr. Seuss books deemed offensive will be delisted from eBay by Igelau on Thursday March 04, 2021 @08:32PM (#26351265)
This is also a terrible idea, because there can be no scholarly analysis if scholars can't get it because everyone has jammed it down the memory hole.

(Edit: I'd really like to see some thought out defense on how censorship doesn't injure scholarship. Downvotes are just limp concessions.)

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Re:Dr. Seuss books deemed offensive will be delisted from eBay by RobertKerans on Friday March 05, 2021 @06:42AM (#26355744)
Nobody's arguing that, so I'm not sure why anyone would need to defend a position they don't have. "I can't buy an uncommented copy of Mein Kampf from eBay" isn't the same thing as "I'm not allowed to read an uncommented copy of Mein Kampf", the latter isn't true.
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