No. In my experience, librarians actually care about privacy and freedom of speech, unlike any online platform. Being able to just walk into a building and read

No. In my experience, librarians actually care about privacy and freedom of speech, unlike any online platform. Being able to just walk into a building and read a physical book without being subject to psychological warfare or surveillance (beyond I suppose the database for checking in and checking out, which I doubt is connected to Palantir) is a low-tech freedom we shouldn't lightly abandon when technology more and more seems to serve the interests of fascists and capitalists rather than the end user. Also if the argument is that libraries are turning into de facto homeless shelters... the problem there isn't the existence of libraries, it's the failure of society to provide shelter for the homeless. House the homeless and they won't be pissing in the libraries.