"Legal grounds for censorship in America were first established in 1873 with the passage of the Federal Anti-Obscenity Act, or Comstock Law. Introduced by Anthony Comstock, founder of the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice (NYSSV), the law made it a crime to send "obscene," "lewd," "indecent," or "filthy" materials through the US mail."
Introduction to Book Banning: At Issue." Book Banning, edited by Thomas Riggs, Greenhaven Press, 2012. At Issue. Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints, Accessed 10 Oct. 2023
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2005/oct/23/books.turkey#:~:text=The%20Canadian%20author%20Margaret%20Atwood,Pamuk%20an%20'abject%20creature'.
"To carry the wrong book meant being imprisoned, tortured, perhaps killed." Alberto Manguel
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