the librarian was put under investigation when she refused to ban the books.

> An investigation into the librarian was soon launched and the library closed as a "temporary safeguarding measure".

of course 1984 is one of the books being banned.

It seems 1984 is the manual that most governments are using to inspire themselves. Definitely not something that us plebs should have access to.

/s (for those few)..

I red 1984 and "Brave new world" roughly at the same time, and for quite some time I thought 1984 to be too unrealistic, and I considered bnw as more likely scenario. I was wrong.

I remember having a similar feeling about 'A Handmaids Tale', a TV show I gave up watching because I would actually weep myself to sleep.

Coming soon no doubt. It's like they are determined to make dystopian nightmares a reality, almost as if they know the end is nigh or this particular iteration of civilization is drawing to a close and they are determined to squeeze the very soul out of the experience.

To what end? Distraction? Personal enrichment?

Everyone wants their slice of the pie fore the music stops?

There is a reason why we need to safeguard the culture (old, recent & actual) for the future generations. This is a intergenerational responsibility that we need to tackle asap.

I’ve heard that various religious texts have strong, sensitive sometimes violent themes. Yet nobody bans them. Wonder why.

I wonder if Fahrenheit 451 was banned too? Or maybe it was kept as a how-to manual?

The title drips with irony

“Safeguarding”. How very, um, Orwellian.

UK doing UK things per usual.

unfortunately, we have the problem in a few places in the US as well.

florida and texas in particular. [0]

last year florida has at least 2,300 instances of book bannings and texas had at least 1,700.

its wild to watch this all happen so quickly.

[0] https://pen.org/book-bans/book-ban-resources/ (if you scroll down to the map it shows how many instances of book bannings by state)

They are more or less importing this from the US, where this has been going on for a time already, especially at school libraries.