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Guess 100 years wasn't enough. US is slipping back to 1923. "In the past several years, the US has witnessed a rash of censorship laws and book bans, a politic
by FrustratedMonky 3y ago
Guess 100 years wasn't enough. US is slipping back to 1923.
"In the past several years, the US has witnessed a rash of censorship laws and book bans, a political backlash designed to turn back the clock with regard to human sexual freedom, knowledge about race and racism, and women’s reproductive rights. Not surprisingly, conservatives are invoking the availability of the 19th-century ‘Comstock’ obscenity laws – never fully repealed – to prohibit the interstate distribution of the drug mifepristone (part of the so-called ‘abortion pill’)."