Summary
Rightwing groups across the US are driving a wave of legislation to restrict books in school and public libraries, targeting content deemed “sexually explicit” or “obscene,” often affecting LGBTQ+ and race-related titles.
Texas leads with 31 bills and 538 book bans in the 2023–24 school year.
Proposed laws, like Texas Senate Bill 13, shift book selection power from librarians to parent-led advisory boards.
Critics, including librarians and legal scholars, warn these efforts amount to censorship, risk violating First Amendment rights, and reduce access in underserved communities.
So more wasting tax money for posturing and campaigning and not solving any actual problems
I’d call it “wasting tax money perpetuating culture wars as a distraction from the class war; while also making the population dumber, and less inclined to resist feudalism.”
This isn’t posturing, it’s having a direct impact on the education of children in this country. This is them creating more problems.
so they are banning the Bible because of the obscene material in it?;
Lol no
guns
Wonderful… I wonder when this country is going to have Kristallnacht.
Honestly, the best thing for the planet right now would be not to have a US
They need to just get on with it, we all know what they want to do
Shit or get off the pot
Conservatives simply hate free speech.
No no, they love free speech when it allows them to use hate speech against others. They only hate free speech when others opinions disagrees with their own. That is the difference between left and right, left understand that free speech means we have to protect against hate speech, the right rails against censorship regarding hate speech as a vehicle against “oppression” so they can be the ones that can attack those that disagree with them with hate speech.
“Free speech” is I get to call you the F-slur. “Obscenity” is you discussing any aspect of your life that differs from mine.
The Constitution according to Republicans:
We The People…words words GET TO HAVE AS MANY GUNS AS WE WANT words words…The End.
More of this shit again. Don’t they get bored with this same old schtick?
It’s just p25.
Wow, I did Nazi that coming.
So tired of hearing that the right is a champion of free speech.
We need a massive bible book burning event.
“Bu-but the right wingers promised me that I could say the hard-R N-word yet again, and if people were to call me ‘racist’ for it they’d be jailed for defamation, and they’d also jail feminist video game critics for censoring games!”
How do they know something is obscene? None of them know how to read.
Unfortunately there’s a website that tells them specific books and passages to challenge.
I’ve yet to discover a conservative “Christian” that possesses even a passing familiarity with their own self proclaimed testaments.
Like seriously, you claim to take your belief seriously, it’s 1 fucking book! It’s not a page turner I grant them, but it’s ONE book.
Right wings lie bout wanting freedom of speech. They just want to sprout racist stuff and other phobic stuff. They treat LGBT like it’s a fetish.
It is a fetish for most of them.
In the age of the internet, it’s weird that they still feel the need to ban books. You can find anything on the internet.
It’s easier to censor the books first. Don’t worry, the internet and its content will be fucked with soon enough(more than it is).
I would say it’s easier to censor the Internet, but the Internet is a much more useful tool for seeing who is interested in the content they want censored.
Give them time, I’m sure we’ll have a China-style Great Firewall soon enough.
You can find anything on the internet.
Not for long.
By “obscene” they mean a guy flirts with a guy. Meanwhile a full on sex scene isn’t “obscene” so long as it’s heterosexual
