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We live in interesting times when the USA, the land of the free and home of the brave, has to turn to samizdat to circumvent censorship.
To be fair, samizdat overcame much greater obstacles than a school library not carrying particular titles because of the ideological idiocy of the school board. The Soviets were much more, ah, comprehensive when it came to banning books.
The Soviets were much more, ah, comprehensive when it came to banning books.
Almost like comparing library curation to actual censorship has always been a dishonest comparison.
It's not fucking censorship. Nobody is stopping people from reading these books. It's literally just preventing schools from providing them. That's it.
Believe me, if they could totally suppress them, they would. This is just what they think they can get away with right now.
I see no reason to believe you
May wanna get an optometrist appointment then.
Why? Because I don't see your delusions?
I'm not American and know nothing about this, but shouldn't banning books be illegal cause of the freedom of speech amendment?
yes it should be illegal
Yes. Now tell that to the republicans.
Fascists don't care about laws.
They’re kids, so they have no rights
I'm being gifted a Little Free Library for my birthday, I'm looking forward to celebrating "Banned Book Week" October 1st through 7th.
Am I allowed to make a joke about France being bacon here or is that déclassé now?
Am I supposed to care? Everyone was already allowed to do all this anyway.
Yet you posted anyway. Odd.
Uh, check their post history. You may not want to engage with them.
check their post history
Wow. It must be exhausting being so angry at so many thing all the time. I didn't see a single comment expressing a positive vibe.
Lmao I'm not angry. Maybe you're just confused that I don't just jerk off every leftist I see?
Sorry, was I talking to you?
If you want to talk about me without me responding, take it to a dm.
Naah, free speech and all that.
Got anything positive to say?
Got anything positive to say?
Of course he doesn't and never will.
I'm sure mr. lemmylefty doesn't want anyone engaging with people who dissent
You clearly thought it was newsworthy that people can access things they already had access to. I wanted to see why you thought it was important
You clearly thought it was newsworthy that people can access things they already had access to. I wanted to see why you thought it was important
Because it means people like you failed.
My OP starts with a comment about the Streisand Effect. If you don't know what it is, you can look it up.
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