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US saw record high of 5,668 books banned in libraries in 2025, says agency

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/22/us-libraries-banned-books
20•vinni2•1h ago

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jazz9k•1h ago
You can still legally purchase these books in the US. I don't consider it a 'banning'.

The Liberals are kings of banning books and censorship. A few years back, previously purchased e-books were censored with a new version because it was 'offensive' and big tech companies regularly blacklist conservative authors and people on social media.

Until we can admit these truths, I'm not sure I care about these book 'bannings'.

jaapz•50m ago
As someone not from the US, this fingerpointing and the " i don't care 'their' books are being banned as long as 'my' books are being banned" is so weird to me.

You guys should care books from either side of your political spectrum are being banned!

marpstar•46m ago
Not everyone has the money to buy whatever book they want to read and it's wrong no matter who does it.
ImPostingOnHN•35m ago
This is an example of "DARVO" [0] – Deny, Attack, Reverse Victim and Offender. Readers will notice that the post itself literally follows each of the instructions in order.

IMHO it doesn't make for particularly interesting or pleasant discussion. But you're free to not care about what you don't care about, and free to provide (or not) any explanation or pretext for it.

0 – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARVO

joe_mamba•51m ago
Current German gov also has amassed more banned books than the Nazi one, so numbers alone are meaningless. What people should look at before being up in arms, is which books were banned and why they were banned.
ImPostingOnHN•47m ago
> What people should look at before being up in arms, is which books were banned and why they were banned.

Okay, I'll bite: why were they banned?

Banning books from a public library is prima facie bad, so each one would need to have a pretty compelling argument articulated for why it wasn't.

What if "why they were banned" isn't a good reason for banning information from a public library?

cyanydeez•34m ago
We wont need books in the future. You'll just open up your Red OpenAI or Blue Claude app and ask it for a new story !
smithoc•18m ago
Important to note that "banned" here means "a school chose not to have this book in their library".

It's an annoying abuse of language. "Banned Books" has historically meant people are getting arrested for possessing the books or stores are being prevented from selling it or publishers are being prevented from producing it.

This is essentially a clickbait title for "People disagree about what is age-appropriate content for a public school to provide to children".

ImPostingOnHN•11m ago
This is incorrect. The article is talking about book bans at public libraries and school libraries alike.

The linked censorship search portal [0] lets you filter by "# Count of Challenges at Public Libraries" > 0.

0 – https://www.ala.org/bbooks/censorship-search-portal

torben-friis•9m ago
Depends on your definition of people:

>The report also found that challenges are becoming more coordinated and politically driven: 92% came from pressure groups, decision-makers or government officials, compared with 72% in 2024. By contrast, 2.7% were attributed to parents and 1.4% to individual library users.

So this isn't librarians, parents or even neighbours deciding something isn't appropriate.

The article also seems to refer to libraries in general, as opposed to school libraries alone, except on a specific paragraph.

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