15 Movies Based on Banned Books
The Huffington Post has a nice collection of 15 famous movies (including clips) based on banned books. The collection has put together in collaboration with the ALA and Banned Books...
Category: Censorship
Apr
20
2010
Government Requests tool
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Google has just announced the launched the Government Request tool. This tools offers people “information about the requests for user data or content removal [Google] receive from government agencies around...
Apr
07
2010
Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury
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Fahrenheit 451: A Novel by Ray Bradbury My rating: 3 of 5 stars This is one of those books I always heard about, but hadn’t actually read, so I finally...
Nov
14
2009
“Child protection or censorship”; I say it’s censorship
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My friend found this article and started a great conversation. The article explains the story of two women (Sharon Cook, and Beth Boisvert) who work at a public library in...
Aug
27
2009
Book Bans and Challenges, 2007-2009
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My friend Lars just found this great map that plots all the challenges against books that took place in the USA between 2007 and 2009. Information to create this map...