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GOOD Books: The Threat of Censorship

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This week’s anti-SOPA action across the internet has GOOD thinking about the threat of censorship. High school kids nationwide are handed dystopian novels that warn against a Big Brother-like state, and celebrate the freedoms of our own society. Yet SOPA has reminded us that even when our White House comes out against a pro-censorship agenda, its very existence implies that the threat of obscuring information will always lie beneath. Here are some of our favorite parables about the dangers of a silenced society. 

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