New Jersey becomes latest state to prohibit bans on books
New Jersey becomes latest state to prohibit bans on books
Them banning the bans makes me chuckle.
I recommend reading the US constitution. Basically this is what the Bill of Rights is.
Also many States added bans on banning of abortions to their Constitutions for the same reason.
We need a lot more of these, like bans on bans of encrypted apps without backdoors. Bans on bans of "vagrancy" and other laws made to target black people. Bans on book bans in prison.
The land of freedom has reached the point that we must ban banning things rather than framing it as guaranteeing the right to d9 a thing.
Wi nøt trei a høliday in Sweden thi yer?
I’m interested how this works, technically. I’m against banning books. I’m also against elementary school kids picking up Naked Lunch in the school library and leaving through it. I presume no librarian would elect to have that book anyway, so it will never be tested whether it can be barred somehow. There are also probably soft mechanisms that get used like “it’s in the library and you can check it out with a parental permission form.” Anyway how to handle obscene material has been a question since the beginning of time.
The bill permits restriction in the case of “developmentally inappropriate material” for certain age groups. The measure also requires local school boards and the governing bodies of public libraries to set up policies for book curation and the removal of library materials, including a way to address concerns over certain items.
The school would still have to be the one buying the books so they just won't buy any book they deem inappropriate. I'm sure this is mainly just to stop zealots from banning everything related to evolution. Also, I haven't read Naked Lunch but from what I know of it, I doubt it has anything kids can't get on the Internet nowadays.
From the article:
The bill permits restriction in the case of “developmentally inappropriate material” for certain age groups. The measure also requires local school boards and the governing bodies of public libraries to set up policies for book curation and the removal of library materials, including a way to address concerns over certain items.
I somehow took this to mean the exact opposite of what the title meant and was confused how this was uplifting news. I think it's time I had a little nap.
Well considering what the last dozen or so headlines you've read about banned books were probably about, I can see how you would make that assumption
Yeah, I had the same reaction as well, through I may have an excuse as my fibromyalgia is flaring up :/
I'm glad they're taking steps to oppose fuckery. I'm disgusted that these steps have become necessary (or at least prudent).
can they prohibit foundations of geopolitics?
Probably not, seeing as that is also a book. Making Dugin’s ideas harder to find doesn’t fix anything anyway, challenging them on the merits does.
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“It was just the prelude… Where they burn books, they will ultimately burn people too.”
Heinrich Haine