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As expected, the book examples given were not "banned". They're usually school libraries that are removing books from their collection that contain explicit ma
by okeuro49 3mo ago
As expected, the book examples given were not "banned".
They're usually school libraries that are removing books from their collection that contain explicit material, usually at the request of parents.
- aarond0623 3mo agoAlmost the entire article is about turning a light bulb into a Wi-Fi hotspot/web server, and your takeaway was, well actually, _The Color Purple_ is not technically banned. Unless I missed something I only spotted two book examples since that wasn't the focus of the article.
- mlrtime 3mo agoIt's a needed comment since the first word in the title is 'Banned' and in typical online discourse the comments go down-hill into a rant against ideology/politics.
- BeepyJoop 3mo agoIt's just tech enthusiasts being socially inept. There is literally no discourse to be had from this comment, infact it only serves to detract from the main point of the article
- okeuro49 3mo agoIt is the fact that this tool would only be providing minors with these "banned books" that shows a lack of social awareness. It is the choice of the individual to base their project around these "banned books", which invites this discourse.
- deadbabe 3mo ago“Banned books” is just a safe term to use for something whose real purpose would be to facilitate sharing warez, snuff films, child porn, whistleblowing… etc. Get a grip.
- littlecorner 3mo agoThe cynical side of me wonders if some books might be "banned" on purpose to have the distinction of being a banned book. Probably few books are actually that way, but these days it seems like a shortcut to notoriety
- Spooky23 3mo agoIt definitely gets used as a tool to get attention, but let’s be real, nobody is getting rich selling cheap paperbacks in 2026. If you’ve ever been around a school district targeted by the moms for liberty or whatever, it’s a very real thing. When I was growing up in the early 90s, a local crazy preacher guy got a bunch of people riled up and angry about Goosebumps, Huckleberry Finn and to Kill a Mockingbird. These were the same types of folks playing metal music backwards to find satanic instructions. It was a simpler time without the internet to keep stupid people riled up for extended periods. Now idiocy is a social movement.
- cpburns2009 3mo agoTo be fair to the folks playing metal backwards, some 80s bands did include backward encoded messages about satan. It was likely publicity stunts to rile people up though. Include something controversial for marketing.
- gspr 3mo agoThat seems unlikely. But on a fun sidenote: When Life of Brian was initially banned in Norway, its distributor in Sweden started marketing it as "a movie so funny it's banned in Norway" :-)
- goda90 3mo agoWhat is your definition of banned then? The book Nineteen Eighty-four contains sexual content. An authoritarian interested in reducing access to such literature about totalitarianism simply needs to get some parents worked up over sex.
- gspr 3mo ago> As expected, the book examples given were not "banned". > They're usually school libraries that are removing books from their collection that contain explicit material, usually at the request of parents. So they were banned from certain school libraries then. Something doesn't have to be banned globally to count as being banned.
- Argonaut998 3mo agoBy your logic any book in existence can be banned at any point in time. It's a meaningless designation.
- cogman10 3mo agoBy your logic, no modern book in existence is banned. The books are always available somewhere. "Banned" isn't generally universally applied. It may just be banned in the OPs libraries. Or maybe these are simply commonly banned books.
- miltonlost 3mo agoNever say a "red apple" then because lord knows it had been green at some point! It's a meaningless designation.
- cpburns2009 3mo agoWhenever I hear about "banned books" they're usually so banned that Barnes & Noble has a prominent "banned books" display selling them at the store entrance. It's all marketing.
- Cthulhu_ 3mo agoWhich is understandable, but only to a point - the problem was that a lot of banned books were also frequently anti-establishment or critical of the regime. If it was just explicit material then the bible would also need to be banned. But as always, it was never about protecting the children.
- miltonlost 3mo agoSo the books are being banned from being in that library? "removing books" and "banning a book in a library" is equivalent.