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>>Anon84+(OP)
Yeah but “banning books” isn’t much of a thing. Even the ALA talks about “challenged books.”

And most of the controversy involves school libraries - although there are some exceptions.

This bill just doesn’t do much. I’m not opposed to it. I guess it might do a little good.

But it’s posturing by politicians.

>>pyuser+ab
> And most of the controversy involves school libraries - although there are some exceptions.

This is splitting hairs: removing books from school libraries is a de facto ban on those books. Neither the article nor law implies that "book ban" in this context means anything other than "school book ban."

>>woodru+Xc
According to [1] There are about 130M published books in the world.

So by your definition, does a school library with 13k books ban 99,99% of all books?

[1]

>>Burnin+de
If you bring a banned book into a library, they will reject it and turn it away on the basis of state extortion for risk of being defunded or other legal issues. That's what we're talking about here.

We're not talking about curation, and it is bizarre mental gymnastics to propose they are remotely similar.

EDIT. BTW even curation-excluded books are accepted by libraries. Libraries operate in networks, and they exchange / send overflow books to each other all the time.