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Originally Posted by JSWolf
You do realize that these kids can go online and buy these banned books if they want? The problem is that a ban like this gives these book much more attention then they would ever get otherwise and it might make kids want to read them when they otherwise would have nothing to do with them.
If I had a high-school age teen, I would not mind any of those books being read.
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What kids can do outside of the school is beside the point. You're right that this law, in its own way, promotes these books. I definitely wouldn't have heard of them without the law (and the post here). But apparently it was the only way to get them out of school libraries, even in a state like Utah. And it's not like Maas is an unknown writer, apparently she's sold some 12 million books. The real question is why didn't school librarians take these books out of their libraries
without this law? And why were they there in the first place?
I've had high school teens, six of them, and I would definitely
not have wanted them reading this crap.