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Originally Posted by pwalker8
For the most part, I agree with this.
Frankly, this sort of thing could be handled fairly easily by showing a bit of common sense. Stick "inappropriate" material in a room that under aged kids can only enter with parents permission. There, problem solved. If parents want their kids to read the stuff, they can. If parents don't want their kids to read the stuff, they can't. But of course, everyone wants to force their personal choice on everyone else.
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The problem is who gets to decide what is age inappropriate. Given the usual rules on majority, you would simply need to convince 3 people that a book or programming was age inappropriate to have it removed from public access. And as near as I can tell from the news stories and looking at the bill, there is no process for appealing a decision.
Going by the news stories, what Ben Baker was upset about was not books but programming since some libraries in the state either held or supported
Drag Queen Story Hour events. To quote from an article in the Library Journal, "
However, Baker has insisted that the bill is not meant to censor material. In several interviews with local news outlets, he stated that his issues are not about library materials, but programming—specifically, Drag Queen Story Hour, which has prompted both anger and support across the country. “I’m trying to figure out a way for parents to have recourse if…the library board is saying 'Hey, we're OK with this' or even promoting it, which has happened,” Baker told the Springfield News-Leader."