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I mean, it's literally the premise of this comic that the kid goes to a library that has already banned the book. How does he know it exists at all? And if he thinks he ought to be able to get it at the library, why wouldn't he think of trying to find it on the Internet instead?
Kids these days were literally born after the iPhone was invented, they have never even known a time where you couldn't access the Internet from almost anywhere in the world using a device small enough to fit in your pocket, and somehow you think they'd be too stupid to even try?
Believe it or not, comics are not reality.
Where is this hypothetical child's parents?
Probably at work I'd assume. Were you never a teenager?
First of all, the kids in this comic are clearly not teenagers, so you need to decide whether or not you're talking about the comic since you were one post ago.
Secondly, you have not even acknowledged that these book banning laws will end up imprisoning librarians. It's all about how kids, if they are somehow magically aware of it, can bypass libraries to read certain specific books that are banned.
Cool, now how do they get access to Gender Queer or The Bluest Eye? Because those are banned too and will also put librarians in prison and they are not in the public domain. How about And Tango Makes Three, the often-banned picture book for children, which is a true story about two male penguins in a zoo that adopted a baby chick. A librarian letting a kid have access to a book about penguins could end up in prison for it.
Because as it is, you seem to be implying that the only banned book of any significance is 1984 and if librarians get imprisoned for letting someone under 18 read it, good.
It's kinda hard to tell tbh because not all kids reach their growth spurts at the same time, I'm just assuming that based on his interest in 1984, which contains rather mature themes that require a certain level of mental development to even appreciate. If these are preteens, I would question how they even heard about the book why they'd be interested in it, or whether they aren't just being used as pawns by an adult trying to make a political statement.
You said yourself that this law you mentioned is still under consideration, so everything concerning that is basically speculation until it has actually been passed.
Well, all I'll say is that there's a reason the artist chose 1984 and not one of those other books (even though the one about penguins would probably have made an even better contrast to watching animal cruelty videos).