Prohibiting books from being added to a curriculum is what banning is.
I have seen this disingenuous copy-paste objection show up in every thread on this topic on HN, and it hurts to see people swallow it.
Especially since it then conveniently leads down the slippery slope into aggrieved complaining about scumbag reporters and scumbag press and how newspapers were newspapers and news was news back in the good ole days in the nineteen umpties.
I have seen this disingenuous copy-paste objection show up in every thread on this topic on HN, and it hurts to see people swallow it.
Especially since it then conveniently leads down the slippery slope into aggrieved complaining about scumbag reporters and scumbag press and how newspapers were newspapers and news was news back in the good ole days in the nineteen umpties.