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by rayiner
1115 days ago
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The cost itself is obviously incidental--the point is that public ownership of the shelves means public control of what's on the shelves. It's not "censorship" for the public to control what content is given a platform in taxpayer funded libraries, any more than it's "censorship" for Apple to decide what products are given shelf space in its stores. |
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Wait, but both of those are censorship of a form; Apple is just allowed to censor whatever it wants.
Taken to the extreme, should a library be allowed to stock only books that promote the political party of whoever won the latest election?
Obviously decisions for shelf space have to be made. If those decisions for shelf space are made solely by the government's dislike of the material, though, that feels pretty obviously like government censorship to me.