New Jersey becomes latest state to prohibit bans on books

The second I heard Trump got elected, I gave standard ebooks $10 and grabbed their entire library, and did a "shopping spree" on zlibrary.

how do you...

Grab fiction and nonfiction from their collections page. That covers every book.

History repeats itself. Left, right, left, right. One foot after the other. It'll be here soon. Who knows, you might live to see a bread line four blocks long by age 70.

Perk up!

Growing up I didn't think abortion was controversial, only very religious conservative people standing outside abortion clinics find it controversial. Wasn't until we overturned roe v wade when I realized there are way more people who disagree with abortion than I initially thought.

I remember learning through multiple personal experiences some time during highschool that some adults were vastly less intelligent and wise than some of my fellow 16 yr olds, it was shocking to me. Honestly I think some people hit puberty and just began coasting, ego and entitlement outweighed curiosity, and they began to live with the belief that society's collection of history, science, and reasoning, was worth less than their own personal opinion.

You're right of course, but your 6th grade teacher should have told you that the subject of the book could happen again. Freedom, eternal vigilance, and so on.

Conservatives should have banned ban-bans first if they wanted to get their way.

Wi nøt trei a høliday in Sweden thi yer?

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.

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.

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The fact that this is considered uplifting news is not something I find very uplifting

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 :/

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.

Tbf most of the ones "banned" are banned because of language (I found as many of the PDFs as I could one time and searched the documents for "fuck," which many of them contained, or other words that would be banned in schools), or in one case a graphic novel with a panel depicting a blowjob, and I have been corrected before that it "wasn't technically a blowjob it was 'strap on play,'" but, c'mon strap on play is banned in schools too whether it's between straights or gays. Sure it's educational, but it's not the same as an anti racist book that has the N-word in a historical context (TKAM) or something. Most of those are still going to be banned due to that, the rape scenes in a few, "fuck," "removed," etc.

This seems more like a feel good measure just to say "See we fixed it! All those same books are still banned, but now we're claiming the actual reasons instead of homophobia." I'd be interested to see an itemized breakdown of the ISBNs before/after.

For reference, here's a PDF to Gender Queer on Archive, one of the most popularized, at the top of every "they banned these books" list:

https://archive.org/details/gender-queer-a-memoir-by-maia-kobabe-z-lib.org/page/62/mode/1up

A) Share it with anyone who needs it! I don't believe in limiting the free flow of information online or at the public libraries (bans there are eggregious flat out), but

B) Check out page 62 and page 168, this would never fly in my schools whether it was straight or gay, let's be real.