The association, founded in 1876, condemned legislation that would threaten librarians and other educators with criminal prosecution for possessing “obscene” material.

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    10 months ago

    More apt is that knowledge and learning is a threat to “their” particular brand of democracy. So let us hassle and hobble libraries (with the ultimate goal of shutting them down) under the pretext of “obscene material”.

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    10 months ago

    “Hey we have this commercial library opening up you can read books by the chapter renting each chapter is really inexpensive.”

    I can see the writing on the wall.

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    10 months ago

    Funny that the association was founded in 1876 when that’s the century being emulated by banning “obscene” material.