[mypastself]

All these attempts at banning and censorship tend to focus on the wrong things.

We should all put as much pressure as possible on elected leaders to ban references to 1984 on the Internet every time there’s government overreach or censorship. It’s a great book and the references are often apt, but they’re incredibly overused and cliché.

Such a law would do a great deal to force people to read or talk about other pertinent books. Call it The BRADBURY Act (Bringing a Reasonable Amount of Different Books… um… Under Review… uh… every Year).

[lelanthran]

> It’s a great book and the references are often apt, but they’re incredibly overused and cliché.

No that overused, it appears. Look at how man replies didn't know what the source material was.

If 1984 and Animal Farm was still required reading in HS, we'd have a very different population. One, I expect, that would be more critical of thoughtcrime and revisionist history than of imaginary boogeymen.