[yttribium]

When a book is actually "banned", you get thrown in jail for downloading an illegal copy from libgen or conspiring to distribute photocopied samizdat. Consult the United Kingdom for examples.

[kstrauser]

By that definition, almost nothing is banned anywhere outside of North Korea and similar authoritarian regimes.

What would you call it when the government tells a library to remove books?

[yttribium]

Essentially every country in the world aside from the United States (particularly Europe and UK/AU/NZ/CA as I mentioned) actually bans particular books for real, well beyond "you can't buy it with tax dollars, you can buy a copy at any bookstore though".

[constantcrying]

>What would you call it when the government tells a library to remove books?

Removal of books from a library. If a library includes material glorifying national socialism would you argue it should be removed as well?

>By that definition, almost nothing is banned anywhere outside of North Korea and similar authoritarian regimes.

I think "liberalism" is the word you are struggling for. Germany is more heavy handed on this then America for example.

[kstrauser]

> Removal of books from a library.

"We're not burning books. We're just making a public bonfire of wood products."

> If a library includes material glorifying national socialism would you argue it should be removed as well?

I've seen Mein Kampf in a library.

[constantcrying]

>I've seen Mein Kampf in a library.

Should it be kept there because many people keep reading it or do you believe that any library needs curation based on ideology?