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Censorship is never innocent, made worse for its strained good intentions.  For those responsible for setting and policing such policies, the inner judge comes out, stomping on assumed meanings, interpreting and removing things to ensure the masses are not corrupted.  Children’s stories and tales have not been exempted from this train of revision, expurgation and More

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This content originally appeared on CounterPunch.org and was authored by Binoy Kampmark.

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