The Benefits Of Banning Books

We have seen throughout history free nations become dictatorships. From the Chinese Revolution in the 40’s to the Vietnam War. We, as American citizens would want to stay as free as possible, but things like book banning limits that freedom. Schools and other places that have libraries are allowed to ban books because of the information they contain, and that is completely un-American. School boards and other organizations that ban books take away our freedoms and undermine democracy. To begin, banning books takes away freedom of speech. As the First Amendment states , “Congress shall make no law… abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press…” This is exactly what school boards do when they ban books. They are taking away what us Americans can say and express to others in words or in any sort of media. If we into a country not following these rights pre-set then this story, summarized by Tim Allen (a writer who as wrote many articles for …show more content…
In this crucial time in their life, kids should be able to get all the information possible to become as smart as possible. But banning books to prevent them from finding out information in the long run only makes them a less knowing person. According to Micah Issitt and C. Ames Cushman, “Given the clear chilling effect which follows from government involvement in the affairs of a free press, granting the government the power to determine the value of published media erodes the freedoms granted under the Bill of Rights by denying free choice to consumers.” From this quote we can see that denying books like Animal Farm will only deny free choice to kids and because of our their limited knowledge, they get denied free choice in the real world because they don’t know everything they could know. This limited knowledge is definitely something we don’t want from banning