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Comment by shankr | Hacker News Reader

In the sense of school boards removing books from curricula, "To Kill a Mockingbird" is a recent example. [1]

In the sense of removing books from bookstores, Amazon did ban a broad category of books. [2]

In the sense of literally burning books, I'm don't know of any recent instances in the US by either side. But I know of one example in Canada. [3]

[1]: https://www.newsweek.com/schools-drop-kill-mockingbird-requi...

[2]: WSJ: "Amazon Won’t Sell Books Framing LGBTQ+ Identities as Mental Illnesses" https://archive.fo/v5rWn

[3]: https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/book-burning-at-ontario...

None of which amounts to state actively banning these books. Even though I don't agree, dropping from reading list isn't exactly same as government removing it from the school library. In the sense, it's not the exact same thing.

On the other hand, this happened https://twitter.com/cjtackett/status/1486788612511383553

Thanks for the link. Also corroborated by the statement on the school's website: [1]. That seems overly paternalistic and prudish to me.

[1]: https://www.granburyisd.org/site/default.aspx?PageType=3&Dom...

edit: Agreed, there is a difference between a government censoring and private citizens protesting and boycotting.

Was there a book-burning you meant to link to? Because I just read an article about the exercise of free speech, wherein the twitterati criticized the words of a famous author. What "due process“ do you imagine the government requiring of critical writing?

So... someone wrote an article criticising it? That's not the same as banning it.

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