The burning of books
It seems to me that this kinda of thing has gone on a lot in your past, but its more the symbolic, and your burning more than paper.
Burning of books has been used to control information, to remove things that are deemed unsafe. Its done by states, religions, and want to be rebels. In a way it is a form of terror, but more importantly it takes away the idea of free. Speech.
Today we face the modern version of book burning, a censorship of our internet access, though it looks mundane to begin with it is a dangerous path down that road. Censorship of idea's because they may be revolutionary or simply because the government of the day says it doesn't like it. Is by nature the next step.
There has never been a successful outcome for censorship or the destruction of knowledge. I personally find the whole idea abhorrent. I may not like what the book, or blog poster or magazine or newspaper has to say. But I will defend its right to do so. Its a sad state of affairs when our own government we elect want to cut our access to free information. I worry where one day it will all end up
Burning of books has been used to control information, to remove things that are deemed unsafe. Its done by states, religions, and want to be rebels. In a way it is a form of terror, but more importantly it takes away the idea of free. Speech.
Today we face the modern version of book burning, a censorship of our internet access, though it looks mundane to begin with it is a dangerous path down that road. Censorship of idea's because they may be revolutionary or simply because the government of the day says it doesn't like it. Is by nature the next step.
There has never been a successful outcome for censorship or the destruction of knowledge. I personally find the whole idea abhorrent. I may not like what the book, or blog poster or magazine or newspaper has to say. But I will defend its right to do so. Its a sad state of affairs when our own government we elect want to cut our access to free information. I worry where one day it will all end up
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