Kootenai County libraries will create an "adults only" room, revoke library access to minors, and seek to ban purchases of a wide swath of book topics for anyone under 18. bookriot.com/community-li... - ThreadSky

heykellyjensen.bsky.social • 41 days ago

Kootenai County libraries will create an "adults only" room, revoke library access to minors, and seek to ban purchases of a wide swath of book topics for anyone under 18.

https://bookriot.com/community-library-network-censorship/

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lafocareta.bsky.social•41 days ago

faithlessgrace.bsky.social•41 days ago

One more reason to never travel to Idaho

patl.bsky.social•41 days ago

📌

walden58.bsky.social•41 days ago

It'd be better to shut the Libraries.

parsonsjm.bsky.social•41 days ago

No. It wouldn’t.

It would be better to fight back.

walden58.bsky.social•41 days ago

The irony is here to fight back, using the Paradox. Libraries are vital for our intelligent Lives.

parsonsjm.bsky.social•41 days ago

Do you mean Popper’s Paradox? How does closing a library constitute an example of Popper’s Paradox? I can see how library staff resigning in protest might, but not closing the library itself.

josiahmannion.bsky.social•41 days ago

I mean... No.

truefeyqueen888.itch.io•28 days ago

Shit

bibliotecamcoimbra.bsky.social•41 days ago

heykellyjensen.bsky.social•41 days ago

Among the book themes and topics they want to ban in any collections for those under 18? "abortion, police discrimination, drugs, gender identity, occult, racism, rape, suicide, violence, nontraditional families or lifestyle.”

willowsandsage.bsky.social•41 days ago

Seriously, I hope the librarians go overboard and put away books that push the agenda of the far right based on exactly what they claim the other books are going away for.

verolynne.bsky.social•41 days ago

Any and all Bibles go in the adults only room

willowsandsage.bsky.social•41 days ago

Whelp, I guess they better put all the Biblical marriage and parenting books in there also ;) Non-traditional, violence, racism, etc.

heykellyjensen.bsky.social•41 days ago

In other words, any books that are among the most popular, most well-read, and most diverse available in these categories.

https://bookriot.com/community-library-network-censorship/

josiahmannion.bsky.social•41 days ago

This is my library system, the one I work at. We're organizing, in the community, to (continue to) fight. Library Alliance of North Idaho.

https://saveourbooks.org/

eruanion.bsky.social•41 days ago

Some of that are subjects teens do research papers on....

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