She said the book ban probably came in around the middle of the 18th century, a time when various legal cases saw several books deemed to be too rude to be allowed for sale.
Congress would have no reason, and no justification, to ban a book under the First Amendment.
The portrayal offended Portsmouth so much that the city decided to ban the book from its library.
If we ban every book written before the world became as politically correct as it is today that someone finds offensive, our classics section will be rather thinned out.
An influential Kenyan newspaper columnist says that the call to ban the book could be linked to a new wave of political influence that the Catholic Church seems to be enjoying.
Taymor's lawsuit sought half of all profits derived from the sale, license, transfer or lease of any rights in the original "Spider-Man" book along with a permanent ban of the use of her name or likeness in connection with a documentary film that was made of the birth of the musical without her written consent.
Writers and painters seem to pick up the gauntlet only when pushed to the wall or when under a spotlight (why did a petition by India's writers to the government to lift the ban on The Satanic Verses come 23 years after the book was banned?).
But Gary McGraw, a security researcher and author of the virtual-world focused book Exploiting Online Games, says that Second Life won't be significantly affected by the ban.
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The book and subsequent film are arguably most memorable for their unique depiction of elderly forest-dwelling intellectuals who counter the ban on the printed word by memorizing whole works of literature.
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