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Re:US plans online portal to bypass content bans in Europe a... by 46493168 on Friday February 20, 2026 @09:14AM (#47088303)
> I don't think children should be given copies

Disingenuous framing. Book bans remove books from school libraries. A book sitting on a shelf is not giving a book to someone.

> of Mein Kampf or Camp of Saints

Why not? Genuinely, why not? What will happen if children have access to words on a printed page? Most of them have access to a supercomputer in their pocket.

To make my stance clear in case it’s not: there is no such thing as “age appropriate literature.” A free society depends on intellectual freedom. Restricting school libraries from holding certain books is a tactic to raise children to be closed minded adults.

Re:US plans online portal to bypass content bans in Europe a... by FatCat1979 on Friday February 20, 2026 @05:58PM (#47095217)
> there is no such thing as “age appropriate literature.”

Would you be comfortable with a 5 year old reading "Morning Glory, Milking Farm"?

Re:US plans online portal to bypass content bans in Europe a... by 46493168 on Friday February 20, 2026 @06:41PM (#47095649)
Another disingenuous framing. We’re talking about banning books from school libraries, not my personal comfort with an individual child reading an individual book.