yes
In the 1700s, Diderot created the Encyclopedie, or Encyclopedia, which was a massive project intended to encapsulate human knowledge, with separate sections for physical/technical knowledge, and for societal knowledge (e.g. about systems of government). It was initially not censored by the Church, and it became massively popular.
However, eventually the branch of the Inquisition in Rome (…as opposed to the branch working directly in France) determined that it should be censored. In France, people were like ‘well, I guess we have to have a book burning then…’ and held a book burning, where they brought copies of the Encyclopedie … and then proceeded to not burn them at all, and instead burn a bunch of Jainsenist heresy instead, because no one actually wanted to burn the Encyclopedie.
It got to the point that people who were trying to smuggle in censored books that weren’t the Encyclopedie would hide them underneath copies of the Encyclopedie. People would check the book shipments, see ‘oh, the Encyclopedie, that’s fine,’ and assume that there wasn’t anything more secret, since they had already found the “illegal” book.
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if we’re on this topic
did you know that 1984 was banned in the soviet union for being anti-communist
but also banned in the USA for being pro-communist
Prepare yourselves, the bells have tolled!
Shelter your weak, your young and your old!
Each of you shall pay the final sum.
Cry for mercy, the reckoning has come!
Truly
This game will be the game of games
Such a gamey game will allow all games to truly reach gamer status
Our gaming ability will not be stopped under any circumstance
Did you know:
- What do Lady Amos (UN Under-Secretary-General for humanitarian affairs), Martin Luther King Jr, Robin Williams, and Michelle Obama have in common? They are all sociology graduates.
- From children fighting in a playground, to the debating chamber of parliament; from the dynamics of a flat warming party, to protests on the street—nothing escapes the sociologist’s gaze.
- Sociologists like to analyse and explain human behaviour. Every area of modern life can use the services of a sociologist.
- Understanding people within society can also be useful in careers such as market research, retail management, the police force and journalism.
- Sociologists analyse how individuals are shaped by the groups they belong to – their families, peer groups, cultures, nations, and societies.
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Lovely idea~
One thing I enjoy is the difference in definitions of some terms from country to country.
In America, assault there is moreso what we call battery in the UK.
Assault is when the defendant intentionally, or, recklessly causes someone else, the victim to immediately apprehend unlawful physical violence.
Battery is when a person intentionally or recklessly applies unlawful force to another without their consent. However, it does not need to leave a wound. It can be even touching someone without their consent.
Sometimes we consent to being touched, for example at a gig, you can expect to potentially be jostled. But this covers when these circumstances are unwarranted.
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Cheese already has earned brownie points just for saying something funny.
This, this is good
Shit i set the bar too high now
Prepare to be disappointed for the rest of the game
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I am a law student and the one thing we have always been told to never use is wikipedia.
Especially during our work.
It’s sacrilage
A long time ago, people thought that only rational numbers and that every equation must be rational or some crap, such as 5 + 9 or 4 x 8. And then one day some dude was like “Wait wtf is the square root of 2” and then boom irrational numbers were born and everybody’s heads explode cause… irrational numbers I guess
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Yep lol.
I have studied criminal law, family law, employment law, CJS (Criminal Justice System)… amidst other topics.