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RE: Banned Books Week is winding down
There is a definite question of what constitutes an actual danger, and what is just provocative to the thin-skinned. Our library doesn't have a subscription to pornographic magazines, and some might argue that it is "censorship" to not provide such materials.
Monty Python once did a skit, 'The Killing Joke', that is the sole example of 'dangerous' information I can recall.
How can information be dangerous? It cannot commit a criminal act.
Laws apply to people, not rocks, gods, or information.
In popular culture, there are quite a number of stories (nearly all sf and fantasy) over the years (I don't even think Henry Kuttner, (or maybe it was Cathy Moore) was the first, and he/she/they was/were writing this stuff in the 1940s, if not '30s) that used the concept. That memes are weaponized is simply an extension of learned psychological techniques, and who's to say it didn't start with the classical Greeks or before?