What is the target of censorship in Library Wars?


What is the target of censorship in the Library Wars (Toshokan Sensō 図書館戦争)
franchise? Is it political material, sexual material, or something else?




> The premise of Toshokan Sensō involves the Japanese government passing the
> Media Betterment Act (MBA) as law in 1989 which allows the censorship of any
> media deemed to be potentially harmful to Japanese society by deploying
> agents in the Media Betterment Committee (MBC) with the mandate to go after
> individuals and organizations that are trying to exercise the act of
> conducting freedom of expression activities in the media. -
> [wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toshokan_Sens%C5%8D)

My interpretation is that the censorship is for everything you mentioned and
anything else anyone can think of that would be "harmful to society". Just
look at [the list of frequently challenged
books](http://www.ala.org/bbooks/frequentlychallengedbooks).

This is the top 10 list for 2012:

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    Captain Underpants (series), by Dav Pilkey.
    Reasons: Offensive language, unsuited for age group
    
    The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, by Sherman Alexie.
    Reasons: Offensive language, racism, sexually explicit, unsuited for age group
    
    Thirteen Reasons Why, by Jay Asher.
    Reasons: Drugs/alcohol/smoking, sexually explicit, suicide, unsuited for age group
    
    Fifty Shades of Grey, by E. L. James.
    Reasons: Offensive language, sexually explicit
    
    And Tango Makes Three, by Peter Parnell and Justin Richardson.
    Reasons: Homosexuality, unsuited for age group
    
    The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini.
    Reasons: Homosexuality, offensive language, religious viewpoint, sexually explicit
    
    Looking for Alaska, by John Green.
    Reasons: Offensive language, sexually explicit, unsuited for age group
    
    Scary Stories (series), by Alvin Schwartz
    Reasons: Unsuited for age group, violence
    
    The Glass Castle, by Jeanette Walls
    Reasons: Offensive language, sexually explicit
    
    Beloved, by Toni Morrison
    Reasons: Sexually explicit, religious viewpoint, violence
    
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