20 August 2023 - book banning

Jay Scott : Daily Whale : archive : 2023 : 20 August 2023

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.

give me a clue so sweet and true