Educational censorship

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Educational censorship occurs when authorities act to hinder the teaching or classroom discussion of certain subjects. This can take the form of book banning or other initiatives designed to create a chilling effect around the topics in question.

The motives appear to be:

  • rage farming: the subjects chosen are typically outside the mainstream, and can therefore be misrepresented (to the uninformed) as innately harmful
  • preventing access to important information which would reveal the censors' political stances as inaccurate and harmful, thus maintaining an audience of the uninformed for future rage-farming

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