> Why do you bring this up? One, because it is a much more immediate issue than hypothetical digital access restrictions to the "wrong" books. These books are

> Why do you bring this up? One, because it is a much more immediate issue than hypothetical digital access restrictions to the "wrong" books. These books are being made unavailable right now. Two, because the FSF/GNU, as usual, has a huge blind spot for who they should advocate for. They always seem less concerned with a wide range of people having access to books or code (i.e. the supposed 90% of smartphone users) and more with _them_ (on a decade old libreboot laptop running linux-libre - something only a very dedicated individual will build or comission and accept the inconveniences of) having access to books. The book bans in, for instance, Texas are much more easy to circumvent, but affect many more people. Suppressing access to queer literature (for instance) for 80% of the population right now is much more dangerous than a hypothetical technology that could censor 99% tomorrow. Those 19% are probably not even worth chasing, because you already convinced a majority that this material doesn't exist. > In any case, the last 3-4 times I looked into one of these cases, the "ban" was actually just removing the book from the mandatory curriculum. "especially on those from historically marginalized backgrounds who are watching their library shelves emptied" https://pen.org/report/banned-usa-growing-movement-to-censor-books-in-schools/ https://pen.org/report/banned-usa-growing-movement-to-censor...