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>>Anon84+(OP)
So if I donate a pornographic novel to an elementary school in Illinois, besides being an asshole, have I put them in a position of having to circulate it or lose funding?

>>aidenn+7f
No library system is under any particular obligation to stock what you give them, much less accept donations to begin with. It's unclear why they would be, much less why this would be a "gotcha" in this context.

>>woodru+hf
So what you're saying is any library can ban a book?

>>refurb+JC
Curation =/= banning. Telling curators (librarians) "You can't have any book on this list even if you want them, or you'll go to jail" is banning books.

>>sangno+UD
What’s the practical difference though?

Someone still decides the book is not gonna be there, mostly for ideological reasons.

I guess if you agree with those reasons, it’s “curation”, if you don’t, it’s “banning”.

>>tomp+aG
> What’s the practical difference though?

The practical difference is that, in one case, the taxpayers collectively decide what's appropriate for their children and what is not. In the other case, a single (or a few) individuals decide what is appropriate for all the taxpayers children.

I don't understand why some people think it's better to ignore the wishes of the voters.