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=__**Public Response to Censorship**__= This page has some notable responses to issues concerning intellectual freedom- many of which took place in public internet venues such as newspapers, opinion columns, forums, and blog postings.

One major controversy occured when Meghan Cox Gurdon wrote a piece in the online version of the [|//Wall Street Journal//]. -Sherman Alexie, a popular author whose works for YA is often a target of bannings, responds to concerns about YA fiction being too dark for the target audience to be capable of handling [|in this piece]. http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2011/06/09/why-the-best-kids-books-are-written-in-blood/

Sue Corbett writes a piece similar to Gurdon's article that is critical about the level of Gothic or dark elements in works aimed at teens. Available at from [|Publisher's Weekly] -Tamora Pierce, YA author, [|blogs about the piece]