U.S. Book-Bans; More Fascist Than RUSSIA????

[Phoenix68]

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"You can resist much more than it seems"; St. Petersburg Librarians On
Russia’s Book Bans And The Ways They Fight Back."
January 5, 2024
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"After Russia’s financial monitoring service added popular contemporary Russian writer Boris Akunin to its list of “terrorists and extremists,” his books disappeared from most online stores, and many libraries pulled them from circulation. However, libraries aren’t officially banned from having Akunin’s books in their collections, and there have yet to be any major cases of authorities pressuring libraries over their books. Libraries haven’t been fined for promoting “LGBT propaganda” or for violating the “foreign agent” law, and in many of them, you can still find works that are no longer sold in stores. The independent news outlet Bumaga spoke to librarians in St. Petersburg to find out how censorship and the war in Ukraine have affected their work, and how they are pushing back against state propaganda."

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[mark francis]

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"You can resist much more than it seems"; St. Petersburg Librarians On
Russia’s Book Bans And The Ways They Fight Back."
January 5, 2024
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"After Russia’s financial monitoring service added popular contemporary Russian writer Boris Akunin to its list of “terrorists and extremists,” his books disappeared from most online stores, and many libraries pulled them from circulation. However, libraries aren’t officially banned from having Akunin’s books in their collections, and there have yet to be any major cases of authorities pressuring libraries over their books. Libraries haven’t been fined for promoting “LGBT propaganda” or for violating the “foreign agent” law, and in many of them, you can still find works that are no longer sold in stores. The independent news outlet Bumaga spoke to librarians in St. Petersburg to find out how censorship and the war in Ukraine have affected their work, and how they are pushing back against state propaganda."

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Book bans? Is that like Facebook, Twitter, and Google bans on conservative speech prior to the 2020 election?

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