Book censorship
[1] Censors typically identify as either a concerned parent, community members who react to a text without reading, or local or national organizations.
[2] Books have been censored by authoritarian dictatorships to silence dissent, such as the People's Republic of China, Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union.
[citation needed] Book censorship has been happening in society for as long as they have been printed, and even before with manuscripts and codices.
Throughout history, societies practiced various forms of censorship in the belief that the community, as represented by the government, was responsible for molding the individual.
It is usually carried out in public and is generally motivated by moral, religious, or political objections to the material, with a desire to censor it.
[18] Parents who do not feel comfortable with a child's required reading will make efforts to have the book removed from a class, and replaced by another title.
[21] The American Library Association also organizes a "Banned Books Week", which is "an annual event celebrating the freedom to read.
Some faculty responses included comparing it to Nazi book bans and also labelling it "Orwellian and alarming".
The burnings were organized along with the efforts of an all-powerful Aryan Race that were being instated in the government by Joseph Goebbels; the Nazi Minister for Popular Enlightenment and Propaganda.
Ultimately, the blacklist for book burnings was focused on any content that would threaten the totality of Nazi power in Germany.
More than anything else, these book burnings were aiming to remove Jewish cultural influences in Germany, at the order of the rising Nazi regime.
For the 38 years before the act was repealed, the status of Irish works was left completely at the whim of members of the Catholic Church.
The nearly 50-year period of Apartheid in South Africa, under influence of the severe policies of racial segregation, silenced the voices of many who were critical of the government.
[53] Banned people were marked with a Communist label, making it clear that no works being produced on their behalf were to be consumed by a South African Citizen.
It was not until the early 1990s, the South African Government began a process of evaluating the banned materials looking to decide if certain works should still be considered prohibited in the country.
This evaluation led to much of the considerations for prohibited materials to become limited to explicit topics instead of politically driven messaging.
Especially notable was the country's growing openness to various works of political thinkers such as Nelson Mandela, Karl Marx and Vladimir Lenin.
The State Committee for Television and Radio-broadcasting, whose duties include enforcing the information policy in Ukraine, is set in charge of book permits and is to issue bans on books deemed inappropriate which come "from territory of the aggressor state and from the temporarily occupied territory of Ukraine".
