I don't consider a school district in Minnesota not having a book in their library as book banning. A neo-Nazi group donated books to our library and they were pissed when they weren't put on the shelves. They were held in a special reserved section for people doing research. I didn't consider that banning either. If NAMBLA had donated books I doubt they would have gone on the shelves. That's called exercising judgement and responsible behavior and not book banning. I know it's hard to believe but our local library did not have a section for hardcore porn.
"Tropic of Cancer" by Henry Miller was banned. You couldn't legally sell it and you couldn't send it through the mails. That's banning.
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