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'1984' Hasn't Changed, but America Has

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/opinion/1984-cia-book-ban.html

by gslin • 12 months ago

19 2 12 months ago

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gslin• 12 months ago

https://archive.ph/Eaj5C

nullc• 12 months ago

Restricting arguably age inappropriate material in grade school libraries and classrooms is absolutely not the same as restricting adults.

The exact boundaries of appropriateness for a given age group and the wisdom behind them-- and their mootness relative to parents seeming inability to keep their children off social media-- is surely a matter for parents to debate, but it is just not equivalent to or a slippery slope to doing so for adults.

The times does a disservice to the cause of freedom to publish this editorial conflating them. They are crying wolf.

And as the editorial claims, "tends to create demand for the works it targets" -- all sounds fine to me.

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