I know Florida, Texas, and other counties have tried and succeeded to ban books, I wonder how that is even legal since we have the first amendment. I tried doing research on this since Huntington Beach is banning books and people were petitioning against that at the main library.

I made a little post asking people to petition on the Orange County sub.

  • @humorlessrepost@lemmy.world
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    They’re not banning you from selling, buying, owning, or reading the book, so it’s not an obvious first amendment issue.

    They’re creating policies for which books various government institutions can use tax money to buy and make available.

    They just happen to be targeting books that recognize the existence of minorities, which is shitty.