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2. In this electronic age, book banning is an exercise in futility, and burning them has no effect on access to them.

Sat Feb 3, 2024, 06:23 PM

Feb 2024

All this does is make them more popular and more widely read.

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Books are being banned. Book burning is the next step. [View all] Cyrano Feb 2024 OP

Don't take the digital alternative for granted. Cyrano Feb 2024 #3

In theory, yes. But in practice it's gone way past that. patphil Feb 2024 #4

Just flood the Internet with bogus copies of particular books DBoon Feb 2024 #6