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rsynnott 3 days ago

> HB 1069 required that school librarians remove materials from their collections that contain “sexual content,” regardless of the value of the book.

... So, that would be approximately every great work of literature, every important religious text... I mean, what does this leave? This seems _incredibly_ broad; even when censorship of books for obscenity was routine, there was pretty much always a getout for "yeah, but it's Proper Serious Literature".

Like, what books are on the curriculum for English students in Florida? Just the Very Hungry Caterpillar?

> It also allowed parents or county residents to raise objections to material, which then would need to be removed within five days of the objection and remain unavailable until the book was formally reviewed.

Again, wtf? Surely this would allow anyone sufficiently motivated to just run a DOS attack.