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Although we associate book burning with repressive dictatorships and theocracy’s in fact censorship has often been rife in western doemocrcy’s too. The New York Society For Suppression Of Vice had an image of book burning in its emblem. Even today Europeans and Australians are often amused by the obvious prudery of American television with scenes and language that would be considered normal in Europe bleeped and pixelated on Amercan TV.