- The Tucson situation continues, with so many sources covering it that I'm going to go ahead and link to a Google News search. If you haven't been following the story, this piece at the Huffington Post gives some background, as well as providing a few pictures of the recent student protest. Debbie Reese at American Indians in Children's Literature has the most comprehensive coverage I've seen.
- Books popular with young readers in Vietnam are making censors nervous.
- And, in case you missed it, The Satanic Verses is still so controversial (not to mention still banned) in India that a planned video uplink with Salman Rushdie was cancelled at a recent book festival.
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A quote from the Vietnam link: "'It's an unintended public relations chain effect -- in Vietnam, any banned books become best-selling, because people are curious.'"
This just goes to show that, it doesn't matter what country the banning (or attempts at banning) are happening in, the censors never seem to realize that they're only making the thing being banned more popular. Why does this always come as such a surprise?
Posted by: LG | 26 January 2012 at 02:53 PM