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Utah book banners now want to make Little Free Libraries susceptible to criminal charges (www.themarysue.com)
submitted 1 week ago by Arthur to c/bannedbooks
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[โ€“] magnetosphere@fedia.io 7 points 1 week ago

Because of course they do. Fucking fascists.

[โ€“] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 week ago

So they're trying to lump owners of LFL in under an existing law against "Distributing pornographic material" if the (presumably pro LGBT?) books they don't like are in them. Not sure how much more obviously against the 1st Amendment you can get than that.