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whatever the motives of the people building them, they absolutely will be used by others as a means to attack a vital state service.

• beat 8y ago
  Nah. I don't think I've ever heard the argument that LFLs are a substitute for public libraries, except in this article. Library defunding is always done on an "everyone needs to share the pain" ground, we can't raise taxes, we need the money to deal with crime, stuff like that. If someone wanted to argue that public libraries are irrelevant, the Internet is a better argument than LFLs are.
  • hprotagonist 8y ago
    (and it’s still a pretty bad argument)
  • dtornabene 8y ago
    I mean, I mentioned in another thread here that in my own town there are attempts to attack the library, and its not a "everyone share the pain" argument. It was national news. The people pushing it are straight up trying to get the library delisted from the ALA and the TLA, precisely so they can control the content on the shelves. You can go to youtube right now and see the arguments, made in a Texas county commissioners court, to the effect; "if we can't succeed in having these books pulled we'll start our own library or get the county library funding pulled". Its not a rhetorical point, I've been active in fighting it here in my community.