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Please support your local library. Even if you just get a card and keep it active, it helps with stats that they use to get more funding.
How do they know something is obscene? None of them know how to read.
Unfortunately there's a website that tells them specific books and passages to challenge.
I've yet to discover a conservative "Christian" that possesses even a passing familiarity with their own self proclaimed testaments.
Like seriously, you claim to take your belief seriously, it's 1 fucking book! It's not a page turner I grant them, but it's ONE book.
By "obscene" they mean a guy flirts with a guy. Meanwhile a full on sex scene isn't "obscene" so long as it's heterosexual
Wonderful.... I wonder when this country is going to have Kristallnacht.
Honestly, the best thing for the planet right now would be not to have a US
Conservatives simply hate free speech.
No no, they love free speech when it allows them to use hate speech against others. They only hate free speech when others opinions disagrees with their own. That is the difference between left and right, left understand that free speech means we have to protect against hate speech, the right rails against censorship regarding hate speech as a vehicle against “oppression” so they can be the ones that can attack those that disagree with them with hate speech.
"Free speech" is I get to call you the F-slur. "Obscenity" is you discussing any aspect of your life that differs from mine.
The Constitution according to Republicans:
We The People....words words GET TO HAVE AS MANY GUNS AS WE WANT words words...The End.
Wow, I did Nazi that coming.
More of this shit again. Don’t they get bored with this same old schtick?
It’s just p25.
In the age of the internet, it’s weird that they still feel the need to ban books. You can find anything on the internet.
Give them time, I'm sure we'll have a China-style Great Firewall soon enough.
You can find anything on the internet.
Not for long.
It’s easier to censor the books first. Don’t worry, the internet and its content will be fucked with soon enough(more than it is).
I would say it's easier to censor the Internet, but the Internet is a much more useful tool for seeing who is interested in the content they want censored.
So tired of hearing that the right is a champion of free speech.
I bet that the people that wanna decide on this stuff never intend to read the material they are banning.
Similar to how they never read their holy books, but know it's great.
Man fuck these people trying to dictate what people should think
You mean the Republicans or the fascists?
Jk, they're one and the same.