Tag: Censorship

A Library Without Fiction: The Public Library of U.S. Diplomacy

Imagine a library without fiction. One where everything in it really happened.Introducing The WIKILEAKS Public Library of US Diplomacy (PlusD).Providing users with the world's largest "searchable collection of United States confidential, or formerly confidential, diplomatic communications...The collection covers US involvements in, and diplomatic or intelligence reporting on, every country on earth. It is the single most significant body of geopolitical material ever published."For its grand opening its racks are filled with 1,707,500 diplomatic documents from 1973 to 1976 ( The Kissinger Cables) and 251,287 diplomatic cables, mostly from 2003 to 2010 (Cablegate)."The PlusD collection, built and curated by WikiLeaks, is updated...

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A Bookless Future: "What Other People Think is Wrong"

Short video created by Eden Ames for the Youth Free Expression Project Film Contest held by the National Coalition Against Censorship. The theme of this year's contest: You're Reading What?!?" A young boy, in his curiosity of a book his mother blatantly disapproves of, discovers the costly blinding effects of close-mindedness and makes up his mind to reject such a disposition resolving to understand varying perspectives through broad reading."Watch all 12 semifinalists  here and don't forget to vote for your favorite.

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Bad Dog! A 17th Century Canine Book Review

The illustration above appears in the 1697 book, Critique historique, politique, morale, economique et comique sur les lotteries by Gregorio Leti.Leti was a vocal critic of the Catholic Church and of the Pope. His works earned him a spot on the Church's infamous list of prohibited books, the Index Librorum Prohibitorum.As a close up of the image reveals the dogs didn't take to kindly to the stream of books invading their space.And here is the amazing title page illustration from the book:The entire book is available for your perusal thanks to the Folger Shakespeare Libraryh/t  Ptak Science Books: Dogs as Book Reviewers, 1697

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Hooray for the King County Library System

Here, in its entirety, is a letter of support sent by the National Coalition Against Censorship, American Booksellers Foundation For Free Expression and the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund to the Seattle area library system for their response to a recent challenge of Hero Heel 2 (Digital Manga Publishing).Hero Heel Letter KCLS 10.18and here is the Amazon product description for the book which was published in 2008. "Minami confessed his feelings to Sawada, and they spent a single night together. But now, Sawada is brutally rejecting Minami! Minami is trying to forget him, while his fellow actor Katagiri pursues him relentlessly. And...

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