Censorship in the UK: The Manchester Case

Mass book banning at a school in the UK caught the attention of literary advocates worldwide. Here's what happened and the impact.
https://bookriot.com/manchester-book-banning/

#Censorship #CheckYourShelf #Bookcensorship #schoollibrarycensorship

The city has appealed because, apparently, the sky's the limit when it comes to dictating what other people's kids can read.
#BookCensorship

https://crooksandliars.com/2026/05/huntington-beach-ordered-pay-1m-censoring?utm_source=social&utm_medium=twitter&utm_content=115101

New details show vigorous, pricey process to identify explicit books in #EdmontonSchools -
School division paid $43,000 to hire 11 teachers for 4-week summer project
#ScoolLibraries #Libraries
#Books #BookBans #BookCensorship
#Edmonton_Alberta #Alberta #Canada

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/alberta-edmonton-books-banned-9.7059069

When you erase words, you erase worlds that were, and worlds to come.

Readers resist.

#BannedBooksWeek #books #livres #censorship #FreedomOfExpression
#Edinburgh #Edimbourg #IndependentBookshops #BookCensorship #FreedomOfSpeech #bookstodon #bookshops #librairies

Erotica Authors Confront Platform Restrictions and Market Limits

Erotica authors have always worked on the margins—pushing boundaries of taste, acceptability, and publishing norms. For many, the genre offers a space for freedom, identity, and creative expression. But that space is shrinking. Algorithms…
https://selfpublishingadvice.org/erotica-authors/

#Process5And6MarketingAndPromotion #adultcontentfilters #bookcensorship #eroticromancepublishing #eroticaauthors
@indieauthors

"- We analyze the system Amazon deploys on the US “amazon.com” storefront to restrict shipments of certain products to specific regions. We found 17,050 products that Amazon restricted from being shipped to at least one world region.
- While many of the shipping restrictions are related to regulations involving WiFi, car seats, and other heavily regulated product categories, the most common product category restricted by Amazon in our study was books.
- Banned books were largely related to LGBTIQ, the occult, erotica, Christianity, and health and wellness. The regions affected by this censorship were the UAE, Saudi Arabia, and many other Middle Eastern countries as well as Brunei Darussalam, Papua New Guinea, Seychelles, and Zambia. In our test sample, Amazon censored over 1.1% of the books sold on amazon.com in at least one of these regions.
- We identified three major censorship blocklists which Amazon assigns to different regions. In numerous cases, the resulting censorship is either overly broad or miscategorized. Examples include the restriction of books relating to breast cancer, recipe books invoking “food porn” euphemisms, Nietzsche’s Gay Science, and “rainbow” Mentos candy.
- To justify why restricted products cannot be shipped, Amazon uses varying error messages such as by conveying that an item is temporarily out of stock. In misleading its customers and censoring books, Amazon is violating its public commitments to both LGBTIQ and more broadly human rights.
- We conclude our report by providing Amazon multiple recommendations to address concerns raised by our work."

https://citizenlab.ca/2024/11/analysis-of-censorship-on-amazon-com/

#Amazon #Censorship #Books #BookCensorship

Mon-Thurs 3/25-3/29, 9am-5pm

Monroe Co. Jail has recently ramped up book censorship by confiscating people's print books. The jail has justified this censorship and
repression by explicitly stating that they want people to buy books from tablets. These tablets and book licensing fees charge wildly extractive fees. Moreover, the tablets are often left uncharged and therefore inoperable.

Please call in and demand that Monroe County Jail
return books to prisoners!

SCRIPT: "Hello, I am calling to demand that you return all books to the
people you've taken them from and continue to allow print books.
Restricting access to print books is censorship. Tablets are not
reliable ways to access print media and require maintenance that print
books do not. When can the people at your facility expect to have their
books returned?"

PHONE NUMBERS:
Julie Massengill, Jail Administrator 734-240-7432
Chad Cupp, Asst. Jail Administrator 734-240-7446

dial *67 before you dial the number to block Caller ID. Remember, you
never have to give your real name or number.

#phonezap #bookcensorship #repression #michigan #prisonabolition #digitalcensorship #surveillancecapitalism