Was there? It seems like that was the perfect natural experiment then. So what was the outcome? Was there a sudden rash of holocausts the year that publishing started again?
2016 was also first Trump, Brexit, and roughly when the AfD (who are metaphorically wading ankle deep in the waters of legal trouble of this topic) made the transition from "joke party" to "political threat".
Major book publishers have sensitivity readers that evaluate whether or not a book can be "safely" published nowadays. And even historically there have always been at least a few things publishers would refuse to print.
GP said major publishers. There's nothing stopping you from printing out your book and spiral binding it by hand, if that's what it takes to get your ideas into the world. Companies having standards for what they publish isn't censorship.
There's a reason the inherititors of the coyright* refused to allow more copies of Mein Kampf to be produced until that copyright expired.
* the federal state of Bavaria
Was there? It seems like that was the perfect natural experiment then. So what was the outcome? Was there a sudden rash of holocausts the year that publishing started again?
> Was there a sudden rash of holocausts the year that publishing started again?
Bit worse than the baseline, I'd say. You judge: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_genocides
2016 was also first Trump, Brexit, and roughly when the AfD (who are metaphorically wading ankle deep in the waters of legal trouble of this topic) made the transition from "joke party" to "political threat".
Major book publishers have sensitivity readers that evaluate whether or not a book can be "safely" published nowadays. And even historically there have always been at least a few things publishers would refuse to print.
All it means is that the Overton window on "should we censor speech" has shifted in the direction of less freedom.
GP said major publishers. There's nothing stopping you from printing out your book and spiral binding it by hand, if that's what it takes to get your ideas into the world. Companies having standards for what they publish isn't censorship.
Right, the books you are allowed to read is controlled by the people with the power to make them.