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ACLU and Kurt Vonnegut estate sue Utah over its latest banned books.
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Hit: Book Worms Banning books is an exhausting proposition, mainly because it relies on the moral repugnance of a few unidentified “readers.” There is no verifiable justification for the bans as long as a few school districts or charters agree to a virtual bonfire of literature.
Now, Utah has the ignoble reputation as the state with the most banned books in the nation. All this is based on laws that attempt to define pornographic content. Sure, there was a Supreme Court case— Miller v. California —that called for three criteria to determine what’s porn.
It’s not a word or a sentence that…
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