Sober Symposium

Banned Books: Protecting Our Society or Infringing on Freedom of Speech?

Challenging or banning books is a practice as old as the history of writing books. Throughout time, governments, religious organizations, and other groups ban books determined as controversial or against societal norms. In the beginning, burning books was an effective means of destroying the controversial material because of limited printing. With larger publishing capability and the Internet’s vast reach, burning books is a little less effective, but it is still done.