How has banning books affected our world today?
87102
I would worry that banning books and information affects the young.  Students don't want to read or develop opinions and thought.  They want to play video games and listen to music.  Marketing and advertisers influence teenagers to think about materials and ideas that will make them richer not enrich the kids or the world. It creates discourse that is frivolous and shallow, attitudes that are indifferent and lazy.  Some things being banned make people want to read or learn more, but teenagers would run and buy a CD that was controversial, but a book, they probably wouldn’t even know about the controversy because they are not reading newspapers or news online or anything but MTV news. People will become less active minded and less critical and before you know it, the world will change into a new world, but only a better world for the people who dictate the thoughts of the masses.
1102520
Short answer is no.  The list you are referring to is called the Index Librorum Prohibitorum, and it has a long history.  It was abolished in 1966 under Pope Paul VI, following the end of the Second Vatican Council.\n\nNow, the Catholic Church will occasionally speak out against certain books, and each bishop has the right to voice an opinion on things like this, (we saw a lot of that with "The Da Vinci Code), but there is no official list anymore.  Believe it or not, the Vatican doesn't tell Catholics every single little thing to think or not think.
1171584
In what society? What country? Around here, reading, pop literature, etc. is considered cool. Being able to discuss what you have read is even cooler.\n\nThe only people I have ever seen put down reading are usually those of limited intelligence.
215290
Governments do it all the time but I think it's immoral.\n\nIn some cases it might be justifiable for works that are just plain obscene or promote violence, works that accomplish nothing except make the world a worse place - turn people to criminals, or something that makes you worse off from reading it and has no beneficial value to anyone.
198436
the problem with digital libraries is they cant replace books in actual libraries and all the information those books hold.\n\nthe day when rely on computers for all our information is the day we sell our souls to technology because you cant hack and manipulate something that you can actually hold and see.
224985
Books get banned all the time, and it's not typically a universal ban. A book will make the banned list if a single school library refuses to carry it, or if an entire school system challenges it. Censorship is a serious issue, but people tend to blow book banning out of proportion. \n\nOn to The Outsiders. This book did make #38 in the ALA's top 100 banned books of 1990. I'm sure it was controversial long before 1990, but that's when the ALA took note of it. Problem with the ALA is that they don't tell you the specifics of where and when the book was challenged. I did find a mention of a specific challenge in Milwaukee, which probably reflect the reasoning the book was banned elsewhere. Both The Outsiders and That Was Then, This Is Now (also by S. E. Hutton) were challenged in South Milwaukee because "drug and alcohol abuse was common" in the novels and "virtually all the characters were from broken homes." \n\nThere you go. Makes you wonder what kind of time people have on their hands to try and keep kids from reading about broken homes. Anyway, hope this helps.
1121513
Simple, they have to avoid books which parents will find controversial or inapproate for there kids. Many parents over-shelter there kids and force the school board to take the path of lest resistance, with simple boring books. They are in a way politicians are are forced to do the bidding of the people who vote them on the board.
485275
wever see a school book tell you about bad sh*t pres.did?
215911
I didn't read the book, but did see the movie.  I would have to guess it was banned for the murder and rape.  What a shame, such a good story.
1099565
Good book.  \n\n"At the same time, she takes white paper and glues it over the inside cover of the children's books, hiding the table that showed that the books used to be used by white students and were now issued to "nigras."\n\n They were so excited because they had an opportunity to read books only allowed for whites.
876515
Whilst the Harry Potter series is a fantastic read and has 4 relatively good movies, I don't see how this fad could influence generations of people and young kids for 40 plus years. Does it spread the message of love and world peace? Sure it makes kids read again, a tough task at the best of times and worthy of note and just under a billion pounds but influencing several generations of people, musicians and the world? No, certainly not. For The Beatles it wasn't about the money, it was the message, and that message went world wide and has stayed there. I bet The Beatles sold more records than Potter books and though they are both worth millions, The Beatles will be remembered forever.
99778
i think it does have its good impact on kids. unless it clashes with your religion.\nhowever, i think that since harry potter is a world- favourite book, many wold rush to read the book. this induces kids to be attracted to reading. helping them step out a step to the world of reading.\nthe only thing is that as harry and his friends get older, the books seems to be "darker". parents may disapprove  their kids of reading it as there's a bit of eerie things going on.
132015
Here are some of the books I was assigned in high school that were considered perfectly reasonable for teenagers to be exposed to: Julius Caesar (full of murderous plotting and actual murder and several suicides), White Fang (people trained dogs to viciously attack each other so they could gamble on it), Crime and Punishment (murder),  Romeo and Juliet (murder, drugs and suicide), MacBeth (murder), Hamlet (murder by poisoning, numerous deaths).\n\nSo what I'm saying is I don't believe in outright censorship in schools.  There are some things that are clearly not acceptable for children to be exposed to.  I wonder how many of these morally righteous people have children, I wonder how many who have children let their children play hours of video games (not just violent) or have the TV or Internet as babysitters.\n\nThere are far worse things for children to be exposed to in life.  The best way to stem the violence is for parents to talk to their children and spend more time with them.  Do not be pleasers, be parents.
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Well, they definitely are NOT things of the past!  There are more books published, and more book stores, than ever before.  It's just that now we have so many options for communication, and books are one form.\n\nThe main reason books are important, especially in comparison to other media, is that they are enduring.  We can cross time barriers with a book.  It takes only a little study and explanation to read something written 500 years ago; even less for somewhat newer literature.  And there are so very many points of view, so much knowledge, so much creativity available in books.  You can ask someone else for a recommendation, or you can look up reviews in various places, or you can just go to the bookstore and browse.  But there's really no comparison with any other medium.\n\nWhy do you think parents have been so crazy about the Harry Potter series?  It got kids reading who otherwise might never have taken an interest.  It was the first thing a whole generation of kids had that was worth reading even though it was not assigned in school!  \n\nBooks are also the preservers of our language.  Mass media such as TV and movies certainly are not; they are rather the corrupters of language.  But good writing will always be good writing.  \n\nAnd you can read good writing today if you want, even if no one is offering it in your school, just by going to the library or book store.  Don't neglect the second-hand bookstores, or even thrift stores with a book rack or two.  You can get a whole world of excellent reading for a fraction of the current cover prices.  Our local Mountain Thrift charges 50 cents for paperbacks and 75 cents for hardbacks!\n\nIn the speech, don't forget to recommend some specific titles and authors that you personally like.  There's nothing like having someone you know, someone who is your contemporary, recommend a book to you.  Worth twenty reviews written by stuffed shirts in a New York magazine or newspaper!
415883
Yes indeed, there are books that are monitored. Books that pertain to guerrilla warfare, explosives, improvised munitions, and a few others are watched by Big Brother. Just be cool,and nothing will happen. Some of those books are quite informative reads, as I have read a great many.....for entertainment purposes of course!
157631
Depends on who is doing the banning.  If this is a high school publication, the adult advisor or principal can ask that a student-written poem or any other work be removed.  I've seen it done.  The school has the right to prevent obscene or incendiary artwork from being distributed if the administration fears for the safety of the students as a whole.  It may sound like communism, but freedom of speech is not 100% universal-- it extends mostly to the press, not the individual contributors.\n\nA poem can always remain unpublished if the magazine or website decides it is not what they want to publish.  Publishers have the right not to publish.  When you're talking about banning, you're really saying it was legitimately published, but then forcibly removed through an unfair process.  That's something that only the courts can settle.  They must decide if the work violated any current laws and if the person who removed it had the legal authority to do so.
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There are innumberable impacts. \nSOME ARE POSITIVE AND SOME NEGATIVE.\n\nOur education system, communication system, transposrtation, and many other social institutions have largly improved.\n\nMedia (print, elctronic) have changed working of our social groups particularly the NGOs.\n\nHuman values have been grately damadged. \n\nIndustrializtion has made the men short of time so relationships have becomes burden.\n\nElectronic media and IT have made the men indifferent from follow beings.\n\nFinancial institutions, particularly the leazing mechanary has made the men slave, indirectly to the financial loans.\n\nMen has lost cultural values of ethics.\n\nEveryday life has become fast, independent and easy but too busy and mechanical.\n\nHealth care has greatly increased and so life expectancy.