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Meanwhile, opponents say reviewing books for possible removal is "a dangerous trend and a slippery slope."

OAKLAND, Calif. (Legal Newsline) – Lawyers attempting to hold Netflix liable for a spike in teen suicides are appealing a federal judge’s decision to toss their case.

The push to ban books has also made its way to Polk County Public Schools.

The Polk County School district has removed 16 books from all public schools and is now forming committees to determine whether the works should be banned permanently.

PCPS review committee will take at least 14 weeks to determine if 16 books contain "pornographic" material.

Polk County Schools Superintendent Frederick Heid said the district will review 16 books that a stakeholder group, County Citizens Defending Freedom (CCDF), claims violate two Florida laws.

As Oscar Wilde once said in The Picture of Dorian Gray, "the books the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame."

Which books inspire the most ire, and why?

The move to censor books in school is less about suppressing actual violence, bad language, or otherwise scary and objectionable behavior, than it is about keeping us from looking at those things.

The graphic novel 'Maus' by Art Spiegelman was banned by a school board in Tennessee. Maro Siranosians/AFP/Getty Images Classic books and contemporary