At the !"#!

London Book Fair$

CHINA
was the guest of honor!

The "# Chinese authors at the Fair

were selected by the

General Administration of Press and Publishing (GAPP)

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

Several other Chinese authors$ including those that now live in London$ were not invited to the Fair

because they %and their books& had been banned in China!

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)

Meanwhile$ in Tuscon%
books focusing on

race, ethnicity, & oppression

are being removed from classrooms!

Mexican American History

Censorship

A change in the access status of material, based on the content of the work and made by a governing authority or its representatives. Such changes include exclusion, restriction, removal, or age/grade level changes.
-American Library Association

3 main reasons
sexually'explicit

o(ensive language

unsuited to any age group

London and Tuscon are only " cities out of countless others supporting censorship

Top 10 Challenged Books

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Creative Commons, Wikimedia

Top 10 Challenged Books

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How many have YOU read?

Challenge Statistics

American Library Association

American Library Association

American Library Association

Is book censorship ethical?

In 1982, the high court determined in Board of Education v. Pico that the First Amendment rights of students may be directly and sharply implicated by the removal of books from the shelves of a school library.
-David L. Hudson, Jr. First Amendment Center

Negative Effects of Censorship

Against First Amendment rights

#1

to freedom of speech and freedom of press

Prevents the teaching of life lessons

Prevents students %and others!& from forming own ideas and beliefs

Besides...
Forbidding something o*en only makes it that much more desirable!

Banning books can BACKFIRE!

"Oh Harry, don't you see? If she could have done one thing to make absolutely sure that every single person in this school will read your interview, it was banning it!"
-Hermione, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

BOOK CENSORSHIP And give kids a chance

TO READ.

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+"#,"+#,+,/+tus d'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 these six articles

Abby Riviello. Communication Ethics Final, Spring 2012