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In connection with Banned Books Week, the ALA has released preliminary data documenting attempts to censor books during the first eight months of 2024, in settings including school libraries ...
Here are another 10 notable books that have been banned or challenged over the years, according to the ALA and other sources. “The Storyteller” by Jodi Picoult.
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Banned in the US in 1821 for obscenity, then again in 1963. This was the last book ever banned by the US government. U.S. obscenity laws were overturned in 1959 by the Supreme Court in Kingsley Pictures Corp. v. Regents. [279] [280] [127] See also Memoirs v. Massachusetts. Candide: Voltaire: 1759 1959 Novel Seized by US Customs in 1930 for ...
On Friday, PEN issued a report that expands upon numbers released in September for Banned Books Week, when libraries and stores around the country highlighted censored works. PEN compiled more than 10,000 cases of books temporarily or permanently removed during the 2023-2024 academic year, roughly four times higher than for 2021-2022.
In 2020 and 2023, the United States Government tried to ban social media app TikTok. The DATA Act would have banned the selling of non-public personal data to third party buyers. [75] The RESTRICT Act would allow the United States Secretary of State to review any attempt of a tech company to "sabotage" the United States.
The books were removed this year after Senate File 496, signed into law by Gov. Kim Reynolds in May, banned from school libraries books with descriptions or depictions of sex acts. The new law ...
That pushback, she previously told Yahoo Life, in a recent story about the Central York situation, "reflects what we observed last year when we reviewed data for the most-challenged books of 2020 ...