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spotted-cat t1_jdmgeui wrote

Reply to comment by PracticalTie in Book ban attempts reach record high in 2022, American Library Association report says by audiomuse1

Are you actually supporting this trash — and by trash I mean the book bans.

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WintersChild79 t1_jdn9iqp wrote

They are just defining terms. I see a lot of confusion about this, and there's already a comment below equating curating with banning.

The mention of soft censorship (trying to remove a book from a library or curriculum) is to differentiate it from hard censorship (the government banning the publication and sale of a book). Again, there are always a few people on these types of articles trying to say that only hard censorship counts. Soft censorship is still censorship, and it's pretty much always the type that we're talking about in a U.S. context.

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spotted-cat t1_jdncl4k wrote

Then its unconstitutional and therefore illegal in the US.

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