Post #776238
2026-03-22 12:08 UTC
They are banning books in addition to banning the web because they want to prevent children from coming into contact with ideas.
I am older than the www, I lived in an underdeveloped country, didn't get a computer until I was 14. Libraries were my window into the world. I became a member of the adult library aged 11 because there was not much to read in the children's library. My mother tried to keep me away from the library after I showed her Cosmos by Carl Sagan and said: "See, this book also says that god does not exist, it is not just me".
That's why to this day I have a thing for libraries. We have to make sure they are preserved, because the web surely won't be.
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@NicolaElle@chaosfem.tw 2026-03-22 16:52
@rhelune@todon.eu I wonder how many of us have a story of having a book taken from us, or a book stolen, or a book banned from their library, because someone disagreed with the content. Mine was having my copy of Darwin's "On The Origin of Species" vanish while I was in school; given the number of fundamentalist Christians in the school, it didn't take a genius to figure out what had happened.