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

cyanydeez

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

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".

like_any_other

Camp of the Saints by Jean Raspail, or White Identity by Jared Taylor, never make these banned book lists. They don't have to be "banned" - libraries simply make them unavailable, so they get to control information, without being the kind of horrible people that would censor or ban a book. How virtuous!

mc32

Do you know who needs to start banning "books"? Amazon. They truly need to start finding a way to ban bullshit books and lousy books printed on demand --it's a racket and they just don't seem to care. Can they not hire some people to curate titles to ensure they are legit and anyone doing a bait and switch gets banned from the site altogether. It's not like they can't ID bad actors.

abernard1

My sole comment is that people who use verbiage like this are mentally ill. Not "mentally ill" like I'm calling them an epithet. But like, actually mentally ill. There are things that are simply not pedagogically useful in the limited instructional period in school. There are things that are simply not appropriate during early childhood development. People who abuse and manipulate language like this are exactly why more traditional instruction is desired in certain school districts. Postmodernism is wrong. There are actually things that are true without the miasma of an artificial (and exhausting) social construction of reality.