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In practice this is going to be utilized to shut down sex education and other content deemed "harmful to children".
by blurbleblurble 1y ago
In practice this is going to be utilized to shut down sex education and other content deemed "harmful to children".
- 2OEH8eoCRo0 1y ago[flagged]
- JoshTriplett 1y agoWe're there. We're long past there. Start solving.
- lurk2 1y agoDo you have any examples of the finding being used to stymy sex education in schools?
- JoshTriplett 1y agoThere are many, many, many examples of every previous round of censorship in the name of "Think of the Children" being used against anything disliked by people in power, and filtered through the lens of the most conservative backwards puritans. Take a look at any banned book list. This is not a slippery slope fallacy, it's basic pattern recognition.
- lurk2 1y ago> There are many, many, many examples of every previous round of censorship in the name of "Think of the Children" being used against anything disliked by people in power Do you have any available?
- JoshTriplett 1y agohttps://pen.org/banned-books-list-2025/ https://pen.org/banned-books-list-2025/ https://bookshop.org/lists/banned-and-challenged-books-updated-2025 https://bookshop.org/lists/banned-and-challenged-books-updat... https://www.ala.org/bbooks/frequentlychallengedbooks/top10 https://www.ala.org/bbooks/frequentlychallengedbooks/top10
- lurk2 1y agoNone of these are sex education books.
- JoshTriplett 1y agoThe comment upthread was: > In practice this is going to be utilized to shut down sex education and other content deemed "harmful to children". Many of the books on the lists I linked, and many other such lists, are in fact educational in a variety of ways. Often they're banned precisely because they cover topics that people in power don't want there to be any education on. (And, to be clear, this comment should not be interpreted as in any way supporting the idea that a book should need to be "educational", or have any other redeeming quality, in order to not be banned.) "Sex education" is not so narrow as to only include an approved/mandated textbook (though those and their content do get affected by these attitudes as well). Having e.g. healthy relationships (or for that matter unhealthy relationships) depicted or described in fiction is part of a well-rounded education. It's also remarkable, and ironic, how often depictions of dystopias, particularly dystopias that restrict books and other access to information, get banned. And, frankly, banning something misses the opportunity to contextualize it and talk about it, and instead makes it more appealing.
- zeroonetwothree 1y agoStates have had these laws for a while now. Is there evidence that this has happened?