Obligatory…
One of the funniest things about Ray Bradbury was that he was possibly the only person in the world who believed his masterpiece Fahrenheit 451 wasn’t really about censorship, but was about the evils of television.
I mean, all due respect for the man and all, but c’mon. Did that guy even read his own book?
Just had a classmate do a presentation on Truffaut’s film version, in which he said something like “Many critics think of the film as a commentary on television.” Admittedly, he’s talking about the film not the book, but it still seemed off. There wasn’t a time for questions and I didn’t want to challenge him in front of the teacher on it anyway, so I never found out more.
Reminds me of that line in Back to School where Rodney Dangerfield fires the guy who was writing his literature essay on Vonnegut - and it was Kurt Vonnegut. 
In a sense, it is impossible for an author to read his/her/their own book in the same way as a reader.
Grandkids, but yeah. 
Why yes, the removal of books based on race, gender, and sexual orientation did violate students’ civil rights.
Thx to j9c for posting this and the archive link
(Sorry for the late reply, I am only discovering this thread now!)
And this error code is really aggravating. It is often used by American websites that still haven’t been able to be GDPR compliant after more than half a decade and just block all EU users. Which, I guess is fine, but using error code 451 implies that what they’re fighting against is some sort of state overreach, rather than the EU looking out for its citizens against the privacy invasions of advertisers and other businesses.
This is what I see when I visit https://www.dailynebraskan.com/ (a randomly chosen example of a Midwestern newspaper, because they tend to be the worst offenders) without a VPN. I don’t necessarily need to see Nebraskan local news but sometimes stories from such small-town newspapers or TV channels are linked in online discussions and I get reminded that not everyone thinks data protection is important or even worth pursuing.
I’d imagine that a significant proportion of US sites that claim to be GDPR compliant, aren’t. Why bother? It’s not like someone is going to get much joy out of suing the Nebraskan anyway.
It’s a misunderstanding of the intent and the scope of the law. Pair that with rugged individualism and main character syndrome, and they think those foreigners are out to get them when in reality GDPR is aimed at data brokers and social networks, not podunk newspapers.
ETA: I think there was also a lot of fear mongering in libertarian tech bro circles before the law was implemented
