On: Censorship battles’ new frontier: Your public library

[salawat]

I remember the days where book bannings were met with somebody setting up a table outside with multiple copies of the books on the ban list.

Swear I'm bout to start doing something similar if I don't see anyone else do it.

[cato_the_elder → salawat]

Although I share your anti-censorship sentiment, but I think you probably have an overly idealistic view on how book selection for public libraries works.

It's easy to make a long list of non-obscure books which you can be almost certain you won't find in your local public library.

FWIW, my own doesn't even have a subscription to a non-abridged version of a good online dictionary, but they have all of the books by Ibram X. Kendi (and multiple copies of some).