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Sunday, May 15th, 2022

The next book ban: States aim to limit titles students can search for

Author:     Hannah Natanson
Source:     The Washington Post
Publication Date:     May 10, 2022 / 7:26 a.m. EDT
 Link: The next book ban: States aim to limit titles students can search for
Stephan:   MAGAts, through the Republican Party, don't want children to be educated, they want them to be indoctrinated with MAGAt fantasies. Why? Not to protect them from critical race theory or pornography as the MAGAts claim, but because the more educated a person is the more likely they are to vote for Democrats. That's why they don't like public education, and it is why they are trying to control what children can read, and banning and burning books. Of course, like all MAGAt schemes, this is nonsense since any young person with a computer or a smartphone can google anything they want. But the desire to manipulate children's minds is the point of all this and the evil.
Vandegrift High School’s library in Austin, Texas has been dealing with book banning and censorship.
Credit: Montinique Monroe / The Washington Post

Republican lawmakers across the country are proposing legislation that would target online library databases and library management technology — tools built by a half-dozen large companies that catalogue millions of books, journals and articles that students peruse for assignments.

These bills — already enacted in Utah and Tennessee, on the verge of becoming law in Oklahoma, and proposed in at least six other states — are broadly similar. They require databases to remove and block student access to material that is obscene, pornographic, sexually exploitative of children or “harmful to minors” — designations that opponents say could encompass a wide range of texts. Some laws, such as a bill advanced in Nebraska, also require that parents be able to view all content their children can view online.

So far, database companies — such as ProQuest, Gale, EBSCO Information Services and Follett School Solutions — say […]

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