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[quote=BlueFredneck][quote=Anonymous]Burning books is certainly a bad choice of words.  We don't want to burn any books in the USA, but limiting what books are available to kids in schools is not unreasonable.  Books should be age appropriate, and kids should not be forced or indoctrinated into politically charged ideologies.

However, I would also argue that Big Tech censorship is the modern day equivalent of book burning.  It's convenient to claim you are only censoring "misinformation" and "hate speech" - But who gets to determine this?  Sometimes Democrats will call a political opinion "hate speech" simply because it is a position held by most white conservatives.  Sometimes they will call facts "misinformation" for bizarre reasons.  For example, someone posting a personal bad reaction to a vaccine will get hit with a "misinformation" label stating that vaccines are extremely safe.  The fact that vaccines are usually safe does not make someone's personal experience "misinformation".  The truth is the truth.  Of course the Wuhan lab leak theory was called "hate speech" until investigations revealed that it might possibly be true.

I could go on and on, but the point is censorship is bad and prevents us from openly sharing ideas and arriving at the truth.
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So checking out books under false pretenses and then burning them allows us to arrive at the truth, how, exactly? [/quote]

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