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by jyriand 3010 days ago
Are you comparing books to porn? Lets go with the comparison... Nobody is burning books. It's more like the publisher is saying to aspiring author: "Your book contains pornographic content, we will not publish this. Please find another publisher. And by the way, we lost your manuscript, hope you have another one."
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Well, actually they sort of do - trash the books that haven't sold.
Of course they're burning books. They're burning all manner of "indecent" content, not just this "porn" but also content about guns and other subjects they consider too taboo.