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17 April 2024
by Noah Carl
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17 April 2024
by Toby Young
Universities and libraries are hastening the demise of print media – and Covid is still the excuse, says Aditya A. If you ask for a print newspaper they look at you as if there's something wrong with you.
Censorship is growing as librarians and curators increasingly take it upon themselves to try to protect readers from the supposed threat posed by "problematic" books, says Frank Furedi.
A new investigation by the Free Speech Union has revealed that local authority-run libraries are suppressing books by gender critical authors and energetically promoting ones by trans right activists.
If you want to discover the limits of free speech nowadays, talk about sex and gender, says Joanna Williams, whose upcoming talk on free speech and gender ideology has been cancelled by an Ontario public library.
The transmission of Covid via books is only feasible if an infected person coughs directly onto a page which is then touched within two hours. Given that this is easily mitigated, why has the SNP banned library visits?
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