The association, founded in 1876, condemned legislation that would threaten librarians and other educators with criminal prosecution for possessing “obscene” material.
What happened to freedom of speech? Personal accountability? Basic fucking parenting?
Let’s not pretend censorship is new. People who are old enough remember Tipper Gore and Frank Zappa arguing over music censorship.
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”.
“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.
