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> likely immersed in the same "banned books" media psyop as other Western News Consoomers all 4 of the books that are checked-in to that repo are old enough th
by evil-olive 4mo ago
> likely immersed in the same "banned books" media psyop as other Western News Consoomers
all 4 of the books that are checked-in to that repo are old enough that they're in the public domain. I looked at Call of the Wild and it has a title page saying it came from Project Gutenberg, I assume the other 3 likely did too.
rather than jumping to conclusions about the author being influenced by a "psyop" I think there's a much simpler and more boring explanation - they didn't want to check copyrighted ebooks into a publicly-accessible Codeberg repo.
- frollogaston 4mo agoThey appear to all be public domain. Even if they weren't, grandparent could've just called out that these are not really banned books instead of being pretentious with the "psyop" thing.
- dindunuf 4mo ago[flagged]
- hydrogen7800 4mo agoWhen should it be reported, then?
- dindunuf 4mo agowhen it's banned by the federal government.
- Pxtl 4mo agoSo if a book is banned by a widespread movement of extremists taking control of local governing bodies and the federal government is not involved, that's okay then?
- limit35 4mo agoI am absolutely dumbfounded that this seems to be ok to some people.
- dindunuf 4mo ago>there are no banned books in America. that was the only point I was making. Mein Kraft, Selected Works of Lmao The Dong, and The Anarchist Cookbook may be removed from sale/access in some specific locations, but it is very much legal to buy, own, and sell them.
- whatgoodisaroad 4mo agothe US federal government historically banned books under the Comstock Act of 1873 which is still on the books and is still active federal law. it only currently isn't being enforced following some cultural changes in the 1960s. another change in the cultural winds could bring it back unfortunately
- dindunuf 4mo agodon't you have lots of those dormant old timey laws that would be promptly invalidated as unconstitutional if an attempt to enforce them was made these days, like sodomy laws were?
- whatgoodisaroad 4mo agothe Comstock act was unconstitutional at the time that it was actually enforced. i don't want to get into politics but there are many dynamic factors at work here
- BigTTYGothGF 4mo ago@dang You might want to check this username (put a space between the 5th and 6th letters if you're luckily not familiar with the term).
- frollogaston 4mo agoWhether or not a psyop exists, it's presumptuous to say the author has fallen victim of it. Also suggests you're immune or something. Also, the books on the bulb include Huckleberry Finn, which was removed from required reading in some Democrat-governed California cities because it uses racial slurs.
- chipsrafferty 4mo agoIt's almost like this could be used in countries that aren't "America"
- rickoooooo 4mo agoI chose these books as examples precisely because they are out of copyright and available on project Gutenberg. They also had been banned or challenged on the USA in the past. Project Gutenberg has a list of "banned books" on their own website and these are all included.