I know Florida, Texas, and other counties have tried and succeeded to ban books, I wonder how that is even legal since we have the first amendment. I tried doing research on this since Huntington Beach is banning books and people were petitioning against that at the main library.

I made a little post asking people to petition on the Orange County sub.

  • NιƙƙιDιɱҽʂ@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Isn’t that kind of the problem, though? A private organization can certainly censor themselves as they see fit, but the US government should not, no?

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      5 months ago

      There’s a limited amount of space for books in schools and public libraries, so they have to make some decisions what to have in them and what not.

      Also I think this is mostly being done by state governments, not the US (federal) government.