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Utah book banners now want to make Little Free Libraries susceptible to criminal charges
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There is no evil like conservative ChristoFascist ideology.
I would talk to a lawyer about a message on the outside of the library, something like
“by stepping onto this property and examining the contents of this library, you and anyone you communicate the contents of this library to will automatically and irrevocably indemnify and hold blameless the maintainers of this library.”
Che BananaUtah: Wear our special underwear, pay our special sky daddy his tithe, obey unquestionably, and go fuck yourselves.
Mormans are the Scientologists of the boomers.
NatakuNoxSo someone could put a banned book in their neighbors little library and get them criminally charged? Like the whole point of those is so people can leave and take books.
Would be a shame if someone could just shut down neighbourhood charity like that, if this discouraged even having these libraries, if the free exchange of thoughts beyond the control of those who don't want their supremacy challenged was hamstrung like that...
Fucking assholes. This is why can't have nice things: Because someone will inevitably ruin it for others to compensate their own misery.
That's the goal. They don't want anyone to be able read, learn, see, or think about anything that is contradictes their narrative/world view. These are the death rattles of a dying ideology. (Conservative and neo-liberal)
They will become more violent and ravenous as time goes on. I just hope the science and rational thinkers win out before the conservatives and Neo-Liberals drive humanity off the cliff.
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Don’t assume it stops with books, unless we stand up to them and stop it.
They’ve been attacking the internet since at least 2011! (Arguably - even DMCA can be considered an online censorship bill, given how it’s wielded.)
In 2011, they tried Stop Online Piracy Act which would have ended privacy on the internet, silenced free speech, and made it easier to punish those who host it. It didn’t pass, but that hasn’t stopped them.
After many attempts, in 2018, FOSTA-SESTA passed, and as a result, it eroded section 230 safe harbor provisions, killing off Craigslist missed connections (and a number of other sites, too), choked off access to banking for online sex workers, and reduced the number of tools law enforcement could use to find and rescue victims of sex trafficking.
More recently, Kids Online Safety Act passed, but seems to be floundering before being sent to the president to sign. Under the guise of ‘protecting children’, this bill legalizes internet censorship, by allowing the FTC to determine what content is deemed harmful to children. Which can include information they may need to navigate the complex realities of growing up in a challenging world in changing bodies.
To be clear they are making some noise about how Utah's book banning laws should be expanded to include mini free "take a book/leave a book" libraries set up on private property. There is no way a law like that would be upheld in court.
I think the sad part is that any of this even exists at all. If you don't like a book, don't read it. That's all...no need to ban anything just because it offends your fragile ego.
TheTechnician27The Church of Latter Day Saints can't die fast enough tbh.
MinnesotaGoddamJFC, how evil can these people be.
bizarrolandThere is no evil under the Sun that has not been committed by man.
As a species we are 100,000 years old but we are only just barely out of the dark ages.
metaStaticfirstly, 300,000 years
secondly, just because someone has struck the flint does not mean the kindling has caught. Do not mistake intelligence for wisdom.
Utah: Wear our special underwear, pay our special sky daddy his tithe, obey unquestionably, and go fuck yourselves.
Mormans are the Scientologists of the boomers.
Is there a banned book torrent that folks can seed?
I imagine it would be possible to set up like a kiwix server with text and PDF files of these books downloaded from Gutenberg, using only of course public domain copies, and then set up a QR code that would allow someone passing by to pair with your kiwix server, download those books and then have their own copy of them.
Books are small files which aren’t big enough for torrents to be useful. Go ahead and look on z-lib, which has whatever book you could possibly want available for direct download
P2p protocols like BitTorrent are useful because they are decentralized and very very hard to control by authority.
Shutting down one or a cluster of servers owned by one person is easier than chasing after 10,000 people in 100 different countries.
I was thinking of a large curated torrent, every time the a book gets banned it gets added to the torrent, one stop shop to fight modern book burning
Torrents can’t be modified once they are made. Making 1 torrent and adding things to it wouldn’t be possible to do
BitTorrent v2 supports modifying torrents as well as deduping matching files from multiple sources (great for varying collections of books)
Honestly I'd be surprised if they could pull that off, they can't technically control it unless it's on *their* property, so any on private property should be protected by 1A. But if *anyone* can pull it off, it's Morons Mormons in Utah, so there's that..
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It is so surreal to see so many attack books. It's like we are regressing into the dark ages again.
Because of course they do. Fucking fascists.
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.
I mean seriously. Take a simple, friendly idea--and turn it into a nightmare.