MetaFilter posts tagged with bookburning

Book Burning: For Your Health!

Lentrohamsanin — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 08:57:11 -0800

Book Burning: For Your Health! "...under a law Congress passed last year aimed at regulating hazards in children’s products, the federal government has now advised that children’s books published before 1985 should not be considered safe and may in many cases be unlawful to sell or distribute." (via Neil Gaiman's twitter stream)

Blake — Sun, 17 Mar 2002 08:16:56 -0800

Down-to-Wire Deal Heads Off Book Burn
As a follow up on This Thread, Victor Kamkin Inc., the Rockville bookstore that became a mecca for those in search of materials on the Soviet Union during the Cold War, got a three-week reprieve so the Library of Congress can look through the bookseller's 1 million-piece collection to determine what should be saved.

videodrome — Mon, 31 Dec 2001 12:53:23 -0800

Is it almost 2002....or 1802? Regardless, it's a good time for a book burning. And this isn't the first time a congregation has taken offence to Harry Potter, nor will it be the last, I'm sure. I don't even know what to say, other than....sigh.

skallas — Sun, 05 Aug 2001 00:32:11 -0800

The FDA burns books on herbal sweetner. Starting with the 19th century's Comstock Act the US has had the power to confiscate and destroy "obscene" materials. The FDA used this power to destroy the works of Wilhelm Reich and now the herbal sweetner Stevia.

gdavis — Mon, 26 Mar 2001 10:32:17 -0800

Book burning? Are we doomed to stay in the dark ages forever?