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The moral control of literature is coming

2022-05-19T15:33:49.502Z


SEEN FROM ELSEWHERE - Disclaimers, warnings to the reader, canceled readings: the book industry is getting politically correct. What impact does this have on the software that helps publishers with proofreading?


By Marc Reichwein (Die Welt)

Does anyone remember the initiative “

Vorsicht Buch!

»?

Ten years ago, this multimillion-euro campaign flooded living rooms, billboards and other social networks with ironic warnings of the dangers of reading.

Main danger: its influence.

A book can change your life, was the slogan of this advertisement at the time, both well-intentioned and realized.

It had been designed in signal colors, yellow and black, as on these panels installed in shopping centers, in poorly coated places presenting a risk of falling.

This long forgotten campaign shows how quickly times can change.

Because the warnings about the risks associated with books are no longer a facetious irony, but a reality.

In the preface or afterword of works, publishers and/or authors justify themselves more and more, both for the content and the form of the work.

The trend of trigger warnings

Thereby…

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Source: lefigaro

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