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Originally Posted by HarryT
Seems to be making a mountain out of a molehill to me; nobody is being forced to use this app who doesn't wish to do so.
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It seems to me that the reason it is a treated by some as a mountain is because it is part of the US culture war.
I agree it is a molehill. Not just because few will use the software, but also because the underlying ideas in the books will shine through unaffected.
Moms and Dads who use the app are letting their kids read 99.9 percent or so of the words in books which are likely to be deeply embedded with values contrary to those of the parents. Every time a child reads Huckleberry Finn, they get the same dose of skepticism concerning churches and religion regardless of whether it was Clean Reader'd. But in these kind of symbolic battles over values, victory, apparently, must be absolute.