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BANNED BOOK WEEK - GREAT RIGHT?

Mark Playne

11 minutes ago

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It's Banned Book Week...

4th-10th October 2026

I was so happy when I came across this, since, as you know, AI & I Cracking the COVID Code is under Amazon stealth censorship.

They have deleted over two dozen 5-star reviews....and strangely not one of the lower-starred ratings. The lower-starred ratings didn't leave a review, and I doubt very much they read it.)

Just before VAXXED was banned on Amazon (back before the plandemic), I studied the reviews. All the verified reviews were five-star. And the one-star reviews were unverified, as in they hadn't seen the film. People click reviews to 'vote' based on prejudices.

The reviews that Amazon deleted were all well-thought-out, considered reviews.

Since I highlighted the issue, they have stopped the review cull and are back to the one-in-one deleted routine.

They also won't let me upload new paperbacks. This may be a software error, but I've NEVER had this problem before.

So for now, your only place to get AI & I Cracking the 9/11 code as a paperback is here>>

However, you can buy the kindle ebook AI & I Cracking the 9/11 code on Amazon here>>>

So Banned Books Week all sounded good until I read a little closer...

Apparently, "Banned Books Week" historically leaned heavily on censored titles that later became classics like 1984, Fahrenheit 451, Brave New World, To Kill a Mockingbird, and The Catcher in the Rye.

These books were the poster children for their campaign.

Orwell's face, the burning-pages imagery, the "Ministry of Truth" language...

Then something changed.

Their website now says: "...if you believe...

Books are tools for understanding complex issues.
Young people deserve to see themselves reflected in a library’s books.
Parents should not be making decisions for other parents’ children.
Individuals should be trusted to make their own decisions about what to read.
Limiting young people’s access to books does not protect them from life’s complex and challenging issues

This caught my interest, and I had a closer look at the titles they are now highlighting...

All Boys Aren't Blue — George M. Johnson's YA memoir about growing up Black and queer; challenged for explicit sexual passages and graphic descriptions of sexual assault.
Gender Queer — Maia Kobabe's graphic-novel memoir about gender identity and asexuality; challenged for explicit illustrated sexual content, the single most-targeted title of the era.
The Bluest Eye — Toni Morrison's 1970 novel about a Black girl's self-loathing in a racist society; challenged for incest and child sexual abuse depictions.
The Perks of Being a Wallflower — Stephen Chbosky's YA coming-of-age novel; challenged for sexual content, drug use, and a molestation scene.
Tricks — Ellen Hopkins's verse novel about teen prostitution and trafficking; challenged for explicit sexual content and depictions of sex work.
Looking for Alaska — John Green's YA boarding-school novel; challenged for a sexual scene and teen drinking/smoking.
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl — Jesse Andrews's YA novel about a teen befriending a classmate with cancer; challenged for crude sexual language and humour.
Crank — Ellen Hopkins's verse novel about meth addiction; challenged for drug content and sexual material.
Sold — Patricia McCormick's verse novel about a Nepali girl trafficked into prostitution; challenged for sexual content and its brutal subject matter.
Flamer — Mike Curato's graphic-novel memoir about a queer teen at Scout camp; challenged for sexual content and LGBTQ themes.

I've not read one, and some might be good in their own way, yet it's quite clear this is a woke organisation pushing back at the very parents who are pushing back at the sexualisation of children.

No further comment needed, or false belief that they would pay an iota of interest in a book designed to bring adults to fully informed consent in the hope of 'saving our children'.

In fact, these are the very guys that would push to ban such a book.

Wolves in sheep's clothing.

However, they gave me a simple idea: libraries.

All libraries have a system for requesting a book.

Though many librarians will also be woke and UN Agenda 2030-driven, many will not be, and even more will be curious or simply value information in all its forms.

Back in the 80s, I researched the UK's nuclear shelters.

Yes, as a teen, I thought it might be handy to know!

I was shocked to see the list of who was allowed in and who was not.

Nurses but not Doctors.

The principle was that anyone needing a doctor was too injured, but anyone needing a nurse was savable.

They also prioritised firemen.

That made sense, but I was shocked to see librarians.

Librarians were classified as essential because of what a library actually is to a state in a post-strike scenario:

Information infrastructure: the state needs records, technical manuals, scientific literature, legal texts, and archives to function
Records of continuit: land, property, identity, and government records
Technical knowledge: engineering, medical, agricultural, and scientific references that no longer exist digitally or in print elsewhere
Education and re-skilling: the remnant population would need retraining, and libraries were the delivery mechanism
Public information dissemination: telling survivors what to do, where to go, what not to eat, how to decontaminate

In a world without the internet (which is the entire 1980s context), the library was the database. Destroy it and you lose the society's operating manual.

This shows how important information is.

Libraries are treated as strategic infrastructure not a leisure amenity, not a "nice to have." They are Essential.
Librarians are treated as custodians of state memory — the people who hold the knowledge the state needs to reconstitute itself.
The profession is credited with real power, which is exactly the opposite of how the gov treats it when with finance cuts

Where does AI & I sit in all of this?

Yes, it's a manual on how ro use AI, what to expect and what not to expect.

But it's a manual on how ro avoid pandemics.

It's a manual on how to build community to maintain and spread sane information.

So, if you see the book as valuable, let's do a push to get it into libraries.

It's easy...

This is how...

LIBRARY

Find the "suggest a book" form on your library's website
No form? Email the branch directly.
Give exact details: title, author, ISBN, publisher.
Add one line on why it belongs in the adult collection.
If you have local friends/freedom hub members, ask other readers to request the same title. Multiple requests carry weight.
If you've read it and want others to access it, tell the librarian.
If you want to read it and want them to stock it, explain this. Be polite and then follow up once after a couple of weeks.
If declined: ask in writing which stock/reconsideration policy was applied and let me know the result.
UK: your council's library service.
US: your library system's collections team.
Australia: your council/shire library).