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KulakRevolt  4mo ago (anarchonomicon.com)   Edited 4mo ago   3415 thread views

The Anarchonomicon REAL Banned Book List

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Regime-banned books are in school libraries and on indigo bookshelves at eye level for children.

REAL banned books are often decades out of print, going for hundreds of dollars used on eBay, they've been disappeared by publishers and distributors in spite of interest and demand. Others have authors who've died or been imprisoned for their ideas, yet more have been removed from city or university-wide library systems so that their "Misinformation" and "Lies" do not poison impressionable scholars.

Yet more are suppressed algorithmically, not appearing on the author's wikipedia page and not appearing in Google search if you type the author and "book" or "memoirs"... but only appearing when you already know the full title of the work (try this yourself: Type in "Pinochet Memoirs", and then type in "Pinochet: A journey through a life")

Yet others are explicitly banned, some to the point where a mere PDF on your hard drive can result in a decade-long sentence... IN THE UNITED KINGDOM, NEW ZEALAND, and AUSTRIA.

This has been a massive project. over 200 titles on the full list and 10,000 words in my "Cursory" survey.

Let me take you on a journey into the heart of the forbidden

UPDATE: Also Checkout My Addendum to The Real Banned Book list on Holocaust Revisionist Liturature

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For non-Western perspective, see Russian official list of "extremist material".

It is grab bag of various stuff, mostly videos, that were found by Russian courts to be "extreme". Unlike western democracies, Russia still does things in old formal state-bureaucratic ways (when these methods fails, other, less formal like exotic teas or unsafe windows are applied).

As of January 2024, list is 5408 entries long, growing every day and behind every entry is long prison term for "extremism" and "hate".

To add context, on a cursory skim of that list (without looking the actual texts and videos up, which are likely to be blocked/deleted anyway), it appears to mostly consist of, in rought order of prevalence:

  • white, pro-Russian/Slavic nationalism (including antisemitic remarks)
  • derision of Russia as a state, including its current actions
  • white, anti-Slavic nationalism (including antisemitic remarks)
  • pro-Ukrainian content (in Ukrainian)
  • content favoring non-Slavic non-Middle East Russian ethnicities (Tatars etc)
  • mixed generic anti-social content (school shootings, thug violence, organized crime culture, etc)
  • Islamic content presumably considered extreme (including antisemitic remarks)
  • Orthodox content presumably considered extreme

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