I guess the "very successful" part was really the 8 people trying to understand the reason the book got banned, and the (few ?) other constructive responses to the announcement.
Especially if the other years' banned book weeks got no measurable reaction at all.
People on facebook reacting shallowly to some announcement should not be news.
The problem here is that it isn't 'banned' books, it's 'banned and challenged' books, which means 'any book anyone has complained about', which means Harry Potter qualifies.
You cannot tell me with a straight face that Harry Potter has been meaningfully banned in the Western world.
It's a pious lie which reduces an important topic to a laundry list of things the most extreme prigs got uptight over in the course of the past year or so. It trivializes the whole issue.
Especially if the other years' banned book weeks got no measurable reaction at all. People on facebook reacting shallowly to some announcement should not be news.