The Joy of Censorship

I've been busy lately, and I haven't really been following the Public Library Association Conference blogging. Most of it doesn't seem particularly interesting, and I think it's because I'm familiar with most of the concepts because I'm in school now, but the people at the conferences haven't been in school for quite a while...

Anyway, Here's the recap of a talk that might interest a few of you:

The Joy of Censorship by Joe Raiola, senior editor of MAD magazine

He says censorship doesn't work in any form. The proof that censorship doesn't work, he says, is in the Bible. God is the universe's first censor, keeping them away from the fruit of the tree of knowledge. "When you're told you can't have something isn't that what you really want.... The human desire for freedom of choice, even when it comes to fruit, is more powerful than God. He fails as a censor. But there are people all over America, who think they are going to succeed where God failed"