Your quickpost of Banned/Censored/Challenged proportions.

Your quick "banned and challenged books week" update for today involves a Google Maps mashup that points out where all the received challenges of 2007-2009 have occurred - note that most challenges occur in schools, where librarians are sen as expendable staff and often axed when budgets get tight. HuffPo has more on the map and the data set.

Out in the regular world, Project Censored offers their list of the top 25 most censored news stories of the year 2009.

Remember, a free society is dependent on the ability to get unbiased and accurate information from all sources. And if you want to shield your child from the dangerous of the world, that's your right, but also your responsibility, and it stops where my child(ren) start.