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transscribe9468@literature.cafe to Banned Book Club@literature.cafe · 2 days ago

Public libraries in TX, LA, and MS are no longer protected by the First Amendment

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Public libraries in TX, LA, and MS are no longer protected by the First Amendment

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transscribe9468@literature.cafe to Banned Book Club@literature.cafe · 2 days ago
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Public libraries in TX, LA, and MS are no longer protected by the First Amendment.
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Six months ago, Anthony Aycock wrote a piece for this website called “How a Single Court Case Could Determine the Future of Book Banning in America” in which he detailed a case working …
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  • BigMacHole@sopuli.xyz
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    Good! The First Amendment was ONLY ever supposed to be For CORPORATIONS NOT Books! Just ASK the Founders!

  • Professorozone@lemmy.world
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    That right is reserved for corporations.

  • DylanMc6 [any, any]@lemmy.ml
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    we need a socialist revolution in the us. seriously!

  • DylanMc6 [any, any]@lemmy.ml
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    what would william z. foster do?

  • SnarkoPolo@lemmy.world
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    It effectively ends free information access in potentially all 50 states.

    And who is going to be in charge of book censorship? Will these small government, libertarian states have to have a new public agency? Will they just hand it over to the churches? This is going to be a bureaucratic as well as a human rights nightmare.

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    Sounds like shithole 3rd world states.

  • ThomasWilliams@lemmy.world
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    Obscenity has never been protected by the First Amendment.

  • frustrated_phagocytosis@fedia.io
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    Time to challenge all the religious and conservative books. All of them. Repeatedly.

  • altphoto@lemmy.today
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    How about Amazon. How can they be allowed to sell all sorts of people’s point of views?

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      Because they make money while doing it. Schools, to a conservative, do not produce anything of value and hence are suspect.

    • Gerudo@lemmy.zip
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      You said the key word. Sell.

      Libraries help the poor.

    • Valmond@lemmy.world
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      They gave money to the ballroom.

    • shalafi@lemmy.world
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      Damn, never heard that take before. Love to see that get traction.

      • altphoto@lemmy.today
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        I sure hope they’re not selling to the poor or something terrible like that.

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    They can only take away your rights if you let them.

    • stoly@lemmy.world
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      Not much you can do in “when the lootin’ starts the shootin’ starts” states. They will happily murder you and your entire family while paying the police overtime to do it.

      • cassandrafatigue@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        Who are ‘they’ and where do they live?

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          TX, LA, and MS. That’s what the article is about. The police–who do the shooting. What are you asking?

          • cassandrafatigue@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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            If someone else being willing to use violence means you’re gonna give up

            • stoly@lemmy.world
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              I’m not going to sacrifice my life for symbols that have no meaning to me. I’ll leave that to others.

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                Okay so it’s just not a thing you care about.

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