Fahrenheit 451 takes place in a futuristic society where books are banned. If you are caught with books, they will all be burned, along with your house. This story takes place from the perspective of a firefighter named Montag, and as it goes on, we see how he begins to doubt his job and defy government laws. Censorship is slowly, very slowly, starting to become a problem. The only way we can stop this is to let more things pass through this “filter”. Only if these things do not trigger riots and distrust can we let them pass. Censorship began in F451 (Fahrenheit 451), when people began to become unhappy with the books. We see this when Captain Beatty tells Montag: "The colored people don't like Little Black Sambo. Burn it. White people don't feel good in Uncle Tom's Cabin. Burn it. Someone did one write a book about smoking and lung cancer? Cigarettes cry? Burn the book Serenity Montag Finally, instead of everyone being unhappy, the government banned the books too....