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At the!"#!
London Book Fair$
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CHINA
was the guest of honor!
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The "# Chinese
authors at the Fair
were selected by the
General Administration
of Press and Publishing(GAPP)
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The GAPP has the legal authority to screen,
censor, and ban any print, electronic, or Internet
publication in China.
That agency also has the power to deny people
the right to publish, and completely shut down
any publisher who fails to follow its dictates.-Congressional-Executive Commission on China
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Several other Chinese authors$
including those that now live inLondon$ were not invited to the Fair
because they %and their books& had been
banned in China!
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For the British cultural establishment to
be shaking hands with the Chinese head of
propaganda, a man responsible for the
banning and censoring of books and the
imprisonment of writers, is disgraceful."
-Ma Jian
(banned author since 1987)
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Meanwhile$ in Tuscon%
books focusing onrace, ethnicity, & oppression
are being removed from
classrooms!
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Mexican AmericanHistory
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Censorship
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A change in the access status of material,based on the content of the work and made
by a governing authority or itsrepresentatives. Such changes include
exclusion, restriction, removal, or
age/grade level changes.
-American Library Association
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3 main reasons
sexually'explicit
o(ensive language
unsuited to any age group
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London and Tuscon are only" cities out of countless
others supporting censorship
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Top 10 Challenged Books"###'"##):
Creative Commons, Wikimedia
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Top 10 Challenged Books"###'"##):
Creative Commons, Wikimedia
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How many haveYOU read?
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Challenge Statistics
American Library Association
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American Library Association
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American Library Association
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Is book censorshipethical?
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In 1982, the high court determinedin Board of Education v. Picothat the
First Amendment rights of studentsmay be directly and sharplyimplicated by the removal of booksfrom the shelves of a school library.
-David L. Hudson, Jr.
First Amendment Center
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Negative Effects of Censorship
Against First Amendment rights
to freedom of speech andfreedom of press
#1
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Prevents the teaching
of life lessons
Prevents students %andothers!& from formingown ideas and beliefs
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Besides...Forbidding something o*en only makes it
that much more desirable!
Banning books can BACKFIRE!
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"Oh Harry, don't you see? If she could have
done one thing to make absolutely sure thatevery single person in this school will read
your interview, it was banning it!"
-Hermione, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
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BOOK CENSORSHIP
And give kids a chance
TO READ.
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Sources
! http:++www!guardian!co!uk+books+"#,"+apr+,-+london'book'fair'
china'censorship
! http:++www!ala!org+advocacy+banned
! http:++www!.rstamendmentcenter!org+book'censorship
! http:++www!tucsonweekly!com+TheRange+archives+"#,"+#,+,/+tusd'banning'book'well'yes'and'no'and'yes
! http:++www!cedu!niu!edu+0shumow+itt+CensoringEnglishCurricul
um!pdf
! http:++www!cecc!gov+pages+virtualAcad+exp+expcensors!php
! All Images from Creative Commons Flickr or Wikimedia or thesesix articles
Abby Riviello. Communication Ethics Final, Spring 2012