The association, founded in 1876, condemned legislation that would threaten librarians and other educators with criminal prosecution for possessing “obscene” material.

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      -111 months ago

      Like I said earlier…

      If hustler releases a text only version of their magazines, that should be allowed.

      How are you not following, you bring up hustler, I say the text in the magazine could be fine, and then provide a link to an example of text in hustler magazine that is fine… Do you click on every link without looking at the URL?

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          111 months ago

          What’s your point? The current laws allow for hustler magazine to be curated in a library? It doesn’t.

          What books have graphic depictions? Do these books “lack serious literary, artistic, political, educational, or scientific value.”?

          Is your point that even if a book has serious literary or educational value, it should still be banned? Wanting to ban things of educational or literary value is censorship. It’s a free speech issue because these books are forms of expression. Banning things with value deprives other people of that value.

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              111 months ago

              What books? Give an example, if they really have no value it should be unanimous.

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              -111 months ago

              No example of a “pornographic” book? Not even the gay penguin one or the other book authored by Mrs Gay?

              Spineless shit, prove you aren’t a bigot.

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                  111 months ago

                  Right, your hallucination of pornography in libraries isn’t actually happening, and this law is designed to harass educators.

                  Get bent.