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Book banning is not new: This form of censorship began in what is now the United States in the 17th century and never went away, although there have been periods when politically motivated moral ...
Censorship is the suppression of speech, public communication, or other information. This may be done on the basis that such material is considered objectionable, harmful, sensitive, or "inconvenient". [2] [3] [4] Censorship can be conducted by governments [5] and private institutions. [6]
A Washington Post analysis of 986 books challenged in school libraries between 2021 and 2022 found that nearly 42% of the books challenged had LGBTQ+ themes or characters and 28% had characters of ...
The preliminary data was released at the start of Banned Books Week, an annual campaign by the ALA that raises awareness about censorship. US public schools banned over 10K books during 2023-2024 ...
Political censorship exists when a government attempts to conceal, fake, distort, or falsify information that its citizens receive by suppressing or crowding out ...
Censorship came to British America with the Mayflower "when the governor of Plymouth, Massachusetts, William Bradford learned [in 1629] [4] that Thomas Morton of Merrymount, in addition to his other misdeed, had 'composed sundry rhymes and verses, some tending to lasciviousness' the only solution was to send a military expedition to break up Morton's high-living."
Political Influence – Occurs when a book is considered by a censor to be politically motivated, or a censor has a certain political motivation for censorship. In 1958, the Irish Censorship of Publications Board banned the book Borstal Boy because of critiques of Irish republicanism, social attitudes and the Catholic Church. [44]
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