“This is a ringing victory for democracy… The government cannot tell citizens what they can or can’t read. Our nation was founded on the free exchange of ideas, and banning books you disagree with is a direct attack on our most basic liberties.”

Yes! https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/01/us/texas-book-ban-removed-library-replaced-judge/index.html Judge orders books removed from Texas public libraries due to LGBTQ and racial content must be returned within 24 hours

@Sheril this is the best news I've heard all week!
@Sheril Nice victory for the free exchange of ideas.
@Sheril what about Florida?
@Sheril Wow some actual good news coming out of Texas.
@Sheril Hurray for America! Yay liberty!
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What about books written by Russian authors? 1984 by George Orwell was removed from school curriculums because of a belief it would lead to the rise of anti-authoritarionism. The real reason they want to ban these books is because it encourages free thinking, which is an anathema for conservatism
@OldMansBlues @Sheril Russian authors, and George Orwell, who was British, are irrelevant to this decision.
@Sheril what if they sold them? :)
@Wolfie_Rankin @Sheril I assume pages will have been removed
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I guess CNN got us all fooled

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And that is how it should be. Be gone, authoritarians and fundamentalists!

@Sheril You can almost guarantee that the men calling these books Pornographic Filth will be secretly perusing porn on their phones.
@Sheril nice victory and great news
We don't need free exchange of ideas. Ideas of Christians and WASPs historically endangered our communities. We need a dictatorship

@Sheril

I believe we shouldn't ban things that are true.

However, white supremacy, for example is not true.

Karl Popper's paradox of tolerance is always applicable.