• Muntjac@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    One can only hope. IMO the idea that any book can be banned shouldn’t exist in a free society.

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      1 year ago

      One can only hope. IMO the idea that any book can be banned shouldn’t exist in a free society.

      i think you can make a good argument for at least a handful of restrictions (probably we shouldn’t let, say, manuals on how to commit terrorism freely circulate in libraries) but yeah, i’m pretty close to an absolutist here. one of the very points of creating institutions like libraries is that information can be freely accessed by all; book bans are categorically incompatible with that, especially when these institutions are funded by the people for their use.