[evil-olive]

> likely immersed in the same "banned books" media psyop as other Western News Consoomers

all 4 of the books that are checked-in to that repo are old enough that they're in the public domain. I looked at Call of the Wild and it has a title page saying it came from Project Gutenberg, I assume the other 3 likely did too.

rather than jumping to conclusions about the author being influenced by a "psyop" I think there's a much simpler and more boring explanation - they didn't want to check copyrighted ebooks into a publicly-accessible Codeberg repo.

[rickoooooo]

I chose these books as examples precisely because they are out of copyright and available on project Gutenberg. They also had been banned or challenged on the USA in the past. Project Gutenberg has a list of "banned books" on their own website and these are all included.

[frollogaston]

They appear to all be public domain. Even if they weren't, grandparent could've just called out that these are not really banned books instead of being pretentious with the "psyop" thing.

[dindunuf]

but it is a psyop. there are no banned books in America.

every time some random school in bumfuck Alabama removes some LGBT/CRT/DEI/ESG/whatever pamphlet no one was ever going to actually read from its library, every dailybeast/salon/huffingtonpost/motherjones/etc equate that incident to Nazi book burnings. if you want, I can don a hazmat, venture to r/politics, and exhume a dozen threads about such incidents where the target audience of those articles expresses their anger and disappointment over hundreds of near identical comments.

[frollogaston]

Whether or not a psyop exists, it's presumptuous to say the author has fallen victim of it. Also suggests you're immune or something.

Also, the books on the bulb include Huckleberry Finn, which was removed from required reading in some Democrat-governed California cities because it uses racial slurs.

[hydrogen7800]

When should it be reported, then?

[dindunuf]

when it's banned by the federal government.

[Pxtl]

So if a book is banned by a widespread movement of extremists taking control of local governing bodies and the federal government is not involved, that's okay then?

[limit35]

I am absolutely dumbfounded that this seems to be ok to some people.

[dindunuf]

>there are no banned books in America.

that was the only point I was making. Mein Kraft, Selected Works of Lmao The Dong, and The Anarchist Cookbook may be removed from sale/access in some specific locations, but it is very much legal to buy, own, and sell them.

[chipsrafferty]

It's almost like this could be used in countries that aren't "America"