Do we have an actual answer?
Apr. 13th, 2009 09:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
velvetpageCould it really be this simple? Nutshell version: a programmer in France puts a ban on all things erotic. Except that in France, the word they use for erotic is "adulte." He understandably translated that as "adult," which put in place a code that was meant to be applied only to erotica - on 57 000 books ranging from the LGBT ones, to the sex and disability ones, to health textbooks, right around the world.