@sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al to Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish • 6 months agoInternet Archive forced to remove 500,000 books after publishers’ court winarstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square55fedilinkarrow-up1380arrow-down10cross-posted to: news@lemmy.worldtechnology@lemmy.worldtechnology@lemmy.ml
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minus-squareChahklinkfedilinkEnglish6•edit-26 months ago Libraries are still a thing. You can still go there to borrow a book, read it, and return it, so that others can read it. Public libraries are under assault from every direction. https://www.npr.org/2022/08/31/1119752817/local-libraries-have-become-a-major-political-and-cultural-battleground https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/03/us/book-bans-librarians.html (apologies for nyt link) https://apnews.com/article/book-bans-libraries-lawsuits-fines-prison-0914fa6cbb2a99b540cbbd28a38179b4 https://www.vox.com/politics/2023/5/5/23711417/republicans-want-to-defund-public-libraries-book-bans Pretty soon you either won’t find the books, or even the libraries themselves. Piracy is the only way they are leaving to us.
minus-squareNoa HimesakalinkfedilinkEnglish3•6 months agohttps://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/03/us/book-bans-librarians.html?unlocked_article_code=1.1k0.2DLu.z4XyKBb-92s6 Here’s the gift link without the paywall. I got the sub for free because my university has one for students.
Public libraries are under assault from every direction.
https://www.npr.org/2022/08/31/1119752817/local-libraries-have-become-a-major-political-and-cultural-battleground
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/03/us/book-bans-librarians.html (apologies for nyt link)
https://apnews.com/article/book-bans-libraries-lawsuits-fines-prison-0914fa6cbb2a99b540cbbd28a38179b4
https://www.vox.com/politics/2023/5/5/23711417/republicans-want-to-defund-public-libraries-book-bans
Pretty soon you either won’t find the books, or even the libraries themselves. Piracy is the only way they are leaving to us.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/03/us/book-bans-librarians.html?unlocked_article_code=1.1k0.2DLu.z4XyKBb-92s6 Here’s the gift link without the paywall. I got the sub for free because my university has one for students.