Vent: I just found out a book I read in high school is illegal in Turkey

I was looking up old school stuff online last night and saw a list of banned books from different places. The book 'The Satanic Verses' by Salman Rushdie is banned in Turkey, and has been since 1989. I read it for a class project back then and just thought it was a weird story. Seeing it on that list made me realize how a whole country's government can decide what ideas people are allowed to see. Has anyone else found out something normal from their past is banned somewhere else?

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campbell.evan2mo agoMost Upvoted

Wait, wasn't that book banned in a few other countries too? It's not just Turkey.

stone.jesse1mo ago

Knew a guy in uni who tried to order a copy off some sketchy website from Thailand and it got seized by customs before it even hit the mailroom. He got a weird letter from some government office asking if he knew what he was ordering. Dude was freaking out for weeks thinking he was on some watchlist all because he wanted to read a cookbook that was half recipes and half bad bomb instructions. Ended up just downloading a PDF from a torrent site anyway.

ericp672mo ago

Honestly yeah, that book got banned in a bunch of places. Tbh it's wild to think about. I had the same feeling finding out "The Anarchist Cookbook" is totally illegal in Australia. We passed around a beat up copy in college like it was no big deal, just dumb kids being curious. Makes you realize how different a normal thing can be just a few time zones away.