20 August 2023 - book banning

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Performative Censorship

In the internet age, when kids can look up any information they want, true or false, loving or hateful, what books do you ban to protect them?

clue:

The U.S. movement to ban "harmful" books from school libraries has been around for ages, but it seems particularly strong and particularly strange lately.

take oh take this clue away

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