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Your regular reminder that the biggest threat to free speech is the government.
The Washington Post charts the startling increase in laws that threaten school librarians with prison for distributing books the government doesn’t like. Librarians. Prison. Don’t take the bait about free speech on platforms without bringing this up, you know?
In addition to Idaho and Arkansas, Indiana, Missouri, North Dakota and Oklahoma enacted laws mandating fines or imprisonment, or both, for school employees and librarians. Tennessee has passed two measures, one that targets schools and another that targets book publishers or vendors selling to schools.
School librarians face a new penalty in the banned-book wars: Prison
[Washington Post]
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