Banning books ineffective, boosts subversives' allure

by The Manila Times

Nov 14, 2021 12:08 am

THE authorities should reconsider the removal of so-called subversive books from state university libraries. This action is likely to result in the very thing that they hope to avoid, which is to make those books more popular among young Filipinos. Our objection is premised on the paradoxical appeal of the forbidden fruit. In other words, prohibiting certain books makes them mysterious and entices more people to read them.

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