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Podcast: Beer and Conversation with Pigweed and Crowhill
Episode: 468: Are we entering a new era of book banning?
Description: The boys drink Right Proper Pale Ale and discuss book bans.
Anne Arundel County in Maryland has become "a book sanctuary." They want "all voices, all stories, and all perspectives to be protected."
Crowhill calls it out as a flat lie and virtue signalling. These same people (or their intellectual fellow travelers) have been in favor of censorship on social media. Why is the library any different?
Should we make a distinction between what children can access and what adults can access?
A big part of the problem is the misuse...