New wave of bills targeting libraries is ‘a threat to our democracy,’ American Library Association warns
The association, founded in 1876, condemned legislation that would threaten librarians and other educators with criminal prosecution for possessing “obscene” material.
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What happened to freedom of speech? Personal accountability? Basic fucking parenting?
Let's not pretend censorship is new. People who are old enough remember Tipper Gore and Frank Zappa arguing over music censorship.
This is even dumber, since we have the internet now. Whatever these folks think kids are being exposed to by books, well uh, there's some more stuff on the internet they might be worried about.
Censorship is ridiculous on all forms of communication. Kids will find it if they want to.
Of course, I'm pointing out the additional level of absurdity performed by the censors in this case
It goes way back before that.
1873 in fact.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comstock_laws
Ope
For the uninitiated.
yeah Frank Zappa released an instrumental album with "Parental Advisory Explicit Lyrics" on it in response.
the oligarchs who run the country don't want those things...
They don't give a shit. No one with any money cares if a 15 year old is jerking it. This is Christianity plain and simple.
Authoritarians want to watch us poop and have intercourse. They also want to count how many times we masturbate. That is the authoritarian sickness.
Authoritarians want to watch us poop and have intercourse. They also want to count how many times we masturbate. That is the authoritarian sickness.
i expect them to trust their kids and not try to micromanage the entire country because the don't.
are those mutually exclusive? i didn’t find them to be. as with every single thing, you have to be attentive and responsive to the actual kids and situation. those change as time goes on…
Tf school are you seeing do that? Honestly.
How is it relevant if it isn't happening???
If hustler releases a text only version of their magazines, that should be allowed.
There is no reason to restrict information.
There is a reason to restrict nude pinups, as there is not an educational purpose to them, they are entertainment.
There is no reason to restrict non-sexual depictions of nudity.
There is no reason to restrict sexual depictions of nudity, if the depiction supports a narrative of conflict resolution, safety, or another educational purpose.
Pornography is not the same as books that acknowledge that the LGBT exist.
More apt is that knowledge and learning is a threat to "their" particular brand of democracy. So let us hassle and hobble libraries (with the ultimate goal of shutting them down) under the pretext of "obscene material".
"Hey we have this commercial library opening up you can read books by the chapter renting each chapter is really inexpensive."
I can see the writing on the wall.
Freedom! DEMOCRATS are Cancelling things!
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Funny that the association was founded in 1876 when that's the century being emulated by banning "obscene" material.
In that case the Bible and all other religious books should be banned.