book banning
Restricting published works
Book banning is the prohibition or removal of books from libraries, schools, or public access, typically because their content is deemed offensive, dangerous, or inappropriate.
Governments ban books to suppress dissent; school boards remove titles over sexual content, profanity, or political themes.
The phrase often carries negative connotations, implying censorship: Parents accused the district of book banning.
- FahrenheitScale freezing at thirty-two
- government mandatesCompulsory directives from authorities
- legal restrictionsLimits imposed by law
- library policiesRules governing book borrowing
- censorshipOfficial content restriction
thought police · suppression · chilling effect · slippery slope · obscenity · school boards · ideology · culture wars · blacklisting · misinformation · political control · religion · First Amendment · morality · banned · McCarthy · cultural sensitivity · literary merit
- censorshipbanned books, censored, banned, censors, excision
- controversiescontroversy, dispute, scandal, outcry, outrage
- media regulationcensorship, content moderation, press censorship, film censorship, art censorship
- political controversiesabortion, gun control, voter suppression, gerrymandering, affirmative action
- propagandapropaganda, brainwashing, disinformation, misinformation, indoctrination
- repressionsecret police, mass arrests, torture, disappearances, detention camps
book banningintellectual freedom
Unrestricted access to ideas
free expression · anti-censorship · literary freedom · freedom of information · freedom of the press