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After the book's publication in April, the Brevard County library selection committee purchased 19 copies of ''Fifty Shades of Grey'' for its patrons. After becoming aware of the book's success, Director of Library Services Cathy Schweinsberg read the book and decided unilaterally to remove the book from circulation, notwithstanding the waiting list consisting of over two-hundred people.
Schweinsberg told Florida Today's Britt Kennerly: "Nobody asked us to take it off the shelves. But we bought some copies before we realized what it was. We looked at it, because it’s been called ‘mommy porn’ and soft porn. We don’t collect porn." [http://www.floridatoday.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2012305040006]
Linda Tyndall, a Brevard County resident, created an online petition to restore the books to the libraries.
The National Coalition Against Censorship sent a letter to Scweinsberg as well as Brevard County Commissioners on May 9, 2012. On May 16, 2012 a joint letter was sent to the Advisory Board of the Brevard County PL on behalf of the NCAC, ABFFE, the PEN American Center, American Society for Journalists and Authors and the Independent Book Publishers Association. +, The Harford County library in Maryland has decided not to carry the New York Times Best-selling series due to its sexually explicit content. The decision came after director of the Harford County Library, Mary Hastler, read the first two of the series' books (''Fifty Shades of Grey'' and ''Fifty Shades Darker'') and decided "In my personal opinion, it's almost like a how-to manual in terms of describing bondage and submissive relationships. A lot of the reviews that came out very publicly and quickly identified these books as 'mommy porn.' Since our policy is that we don't buy porn, we made the decision not to purchase the series." [http://www.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/arts/bs-ae-banned-book-20120530,0,1653381.story] +
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After the episode aired, Abu Talhah Al-Amrikee wrote a post on radical Islamist website revolutionmuslim.com, which stated that "We have to warn Matt and Trey that what they are doing is stupid, and they will probably wind up like Theo van Gogh for airing this show" (Theo Van Gogh was a Dutch filmmaker who was murdered by an Islamic militant for creating a film about the oppression of women in some Muslim countries). Many news outlets interpreted this as a threat, as did Comedy Central, the network which broadcasts South Park. +
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After the exhibition was put up, several angry patrons objected to the display showing Israel in a negative light. One unnamed member of the board of directors threatened to resign if the display remained. +
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After the incident, NBC banned Mötley Crüe from appearing on its airwaves. +
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After the page received much attention and complaints from Kickstarter community members, Kickstarter decided to cancel the project's funding (despite the fact that Cadice had already reached $10,000 more than his initial goal). +
After the show became a rousing success, officials in the the Iraqi Communications and Media Commission complained that the show “contains jokes that are in most cases aggressive, indecent and impudent." +
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After the show opened, Touchet received an email from Property One, Inc., the building management company, demanding that she remove her work: “You have to take down the nude pictures you have in your gallery. Part of the agreement to rent you the space was to not display nude pictures.” Instead of removing her work, Touchet covered the nudes up with cut-out newspaper bikinis, then posted a sign on the front window: “Censored by Management.” +
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After the show was installed and before the Museum's opening cocktail reception, the Museum was pressured by members of its board and the community to remove Wiggins' painting because it was too offensive. The Museum immediately removed the work in time for the opening party, placing it instead at the RE:find gallery location. Wiggins' name did not appear on any press materials, announcements, or on the Museum's exhibition webpage. +
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After the song was released, Ayatollah Lotfollah Safi-Golpayegani announced a fatwa (or, call for religious execution) on Shahin Najafi, saying that he insulted Islam. Shortly thereafter, an anonymous patron of shia-online.ir announced a $100,000 bounty on the artist's head. +
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After winning the 2006 Tennessee Arts Commission Individual Artist Fellowship in Media, Rehm was invited to display her work in TAC's gallery. Soon after the videos were sent to be displayed in the exhibit, which was to be called ''New Works'', they were rejected because one video contained partial nudity and the others were "too suggestive." While she was invited to submit some of her older work, the artist, suspecting that they would also be "too suggestive," declined. +
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All of the pieces appeared last fall on display at a community center in Prospect Heights. They were set to be displayed at the library, but about a dozen pieces were removed from the display for being either too abstract or too political. According to the director of the library's programs and exhibitions, Jay Kaplan, “The library doesn’t take positions on issues currently being decided. That’s not censorship. That’s just a mission statement.” [http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/18/nyregion/thecity/18cens.html?fta=y] +
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All of the sex scenes between these two lovers (main character and her newfound lover) were subsequently censored during the show's April 16 airing. +
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Although this story appears on copies of the international version circulates in other countries, in Pakistan, The New York Times' Pakistani printing partner, The Express Tribune, removed the story leaving about two-thirds of the front page blank. According tot the source, "The Times’s Pakistan printer, part of the Express Tribune newspaper in that country, removed the article without its knowledge, according to Times spokeswoman Eileen Murphy" and that they never "self-censor." (1) +
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Among a number of books challenged in the [[Hudson Falls Book Bannings]], "Go Tell it on the Mountain" was challenged as required reading in the Hudson Falls, N.Y. schools because the book has recurring themes of rape, masturbation, violence and degrading treatment of women. It had already been challenged as a ninth-grade summer reading option in Prince William County, Va. (1988) because the book was "rife with profanity and explicit sex." (Source: 2004 Banned Books Resource Guide by Robert P. Doyle). +
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An Avignon museum sought to display a print of the photograph as a part of an exhibition called "I Believe in Miracles." After an 800-person protest earlier that day by conservative Christians outside of the museum, an assailant attacked the photograph with a hammer and either a pick-axe or a screwdriver, effectively destroying the work. +, The National Gallery of Victoria planned to exhibit a print of the photograph as a part of an exhibition. On the first day of its opening weekend, the photograph was kicked by a 51-year-old man named John Allen Haywood, who went on to receive one month of jail time. His attack only partially damaged the frame, however, and the exhibition was set to continue when the next day, two teenagers, aged 16 and 18, staged one attack on a photo of a Ku Klux Klan member on an opposite wall, which sufficiently distracted the guards while the other destroyed Serrano’s work. +, The Santa Barbara Unified School District (SBUSD) attracted controversy for including Andres Serrano's "Immersion (Piss Christ)" in the curriculum of one of its high school "Theory of Knowledge" courses at Dos Pueblos High School. A Catholic law firm, The Thomas More Society, sent the school district a letter on May 9, 2023, demanding the work be removed from the course, claiming it was "illegal" and anti-Catholic "bigotry."
"The 'Piss Christ' image is hate-speech which is intended to, and which actually does, cause devout Catholics to feel directly harassed and targeted," the letter read. "The image is meant to provoke a reaction, it is meant to be harassing. In that sense, it may be “art,” but teaching it is no different than asking students to personally step on a crucifix so that the class can then have a discussion about how engaging in blasphemy made them feel." +
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An angry public library patron demanded that the picture book be removed due to its positive portrayal of same-sex marriage. +
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An article published on September 20, 2017 in the New York Times, “Where the Wild Things Are: China’s Art Dreams at the Guggenheim,” meant to preview this highly anticipated, art-historically important survey, detonated a lightening-fast response on social media. The three controversial works were:
1) 'Dogs That Cannot Touch Each Other,' a video documenting a 2003 performance-installation by Peng Yu and Sun Yuan, which involved pit bulls chained to treadmills.
2) Video documentation of 'A Case Study of Transference' (1994) by Xu Bing, where two pigs copulated in front of a live audience.
3) 'Theater of the World' (1993) by Huang Yong Ping, consisting of a cage trapping dozens of live reptiles and insects in what would inevitably be Darwinian combat.
One day later, the Guggenheim received such a volume of complaints, it issued a public statement acknowledging concerns around 'Dogs That Cannot Touch Each Other.' A Change.org petition was circulated, demanding the offending works be removed, and received over 800,000 signatures. +
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The moral arc of history ideally bends towards justice but just as soon as not curves back around toward barbarism, sadism, and unrestrained chaos +
An artwork by Kara Walker on loan to the Newark Public Library from Scott London, a New York-based art collector, offended some library employees, especially African-Americans, who requested its removal. The drawing was then covered with a cloth: the piece was installed Nov. 19, and hidden by Nov. 24. +
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An elderly woman in Indianapolis, Indiana, has voiced her concern over the sexual content that is in the novel Night Games by Crystal Jordan when her nine year old grandson checked out the novel from the WEst Indianapolis Branch Library. She was appalled by the erotic and sexually graphic material in the novel. +
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Andrew Bushard had been participating in a North Austin prayer group with fundamentalist Mike Demschak and others. Demschak requested that Andrew Bushard meet with him.
During the meeting, Mike Demschak informed Andrew Bushard he discovered Andrew Bushard's novella [http://www.freepressmedia.org/ThirdPartyBabeRules.html Third Party Babe Rules]. Demschak opined that this novella offended him. Demschak argued Andrew Bushard's publishing of this work and his [https://www.freepressmedia.org Free Press Media] website maligned Christianity.
Andrew Bushard responded that God give him a mission to advance the First Amendment.
Demschak uttered, "You'll have to advance the First Amendment in another way" and "You don't know what freedom is" among other anti-First Amendment comments.
Demschak informed Andrew Bushard that because of this, the prayer group had excommunicated him.
Andrew Bushard visited his [https://www.austinridge.org Austin Ridge Church] prayer group on August 24, 2022. Before the prayer started, two of the pastors (both named Don), pulled Andrew Bushard aside and informed him Mike alerted them to the presence of his publications, and they demanded that Andrew Bushard remove the material and repent.
Andrew Bushard and the two Pastor Dons debated issues relating to this matter. The Two Pastor Dons argued publishing this material did not help Christianity. Andrew Bushard declared that God ordained the First Amendment and the Constitution. Andrew Bushard also declared that God gave him the mission to advance the First Amendment. One of the Pastor Dons argued that "The First Amendment is not divinely inspired" and "The Constitution is not divinely inspired." The Pastor Dons argued that the Bible trumped the First Amendment and the Constitution, whereas Andrew Bushard defended the First Amendment, the Constitution, and their divine inspiration. One of the Pastor Dons accused Andrew Bushard of "being controlled by demonic forces".
The Pastor Dons demanded that Andrew Bushard repent and remove. Andrew Bushard demonstrated faithfulness by continuing to stand for the First Amendment. The Pastor Dons excommunicated Andrew Bushard for their Austin Ridge Church prayer meeting.
