America has banned fictional books in the past before obscenity was reevaluated in the 60s

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It turns out that text books were banned in some states even in the 1800s. This was before federal obscenity law was reevaluated in the 60s.

I thought we had a first amendment? Why ban text books?

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Because it makes me feel uneasy

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Remedy:

  1. Get over your anxiety.
  2. Don’t read them.
  3. Pretend they don’t exist.

Problem solved.

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The First Amendment wasn’t seriously considered when Comstock laws passed in 1873. The laws didn’t begin to wane until 1933.

Free Speech protections began pulling away from Comstock censorship laws after the United States v. One Book Called Ulysses (1933) decision overturned a book ban.

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