In a local paper they had an article about how at a high school graduation one of the ladies graduating handed the superintendent a book that was on the “banned list”. I was glad to see so many in the comments point out that if she was able to get the book then it isn’t banned.
Pointing this out to people is as useless as trying to debunk the police shooting narrative to a true believer. I had a cousin that got mad at me because he was talking about Florida banning books and I simply pointed out all the books listed were available to order on Amazon. Why people don’t understand that a public library or public school not carrying a book is banning it. By all means, start your own bookstore or public library
The sheer stupidity of it is that leftists actually do ban books, often at the publishing and distribution levels.
And even further, they're extending and shoving censorship onto web hosts, domain names, and infrastructure.
"Irreparable Damage."?
If they're not just straight up rewriting them. Ian Fleming and Roald Dahl have both been victims of having their work edited to "eliminate outdated cultural perceptions".
The rights so-called "censorship" has always been simple time and place restrictions- this book isn't appropriate here and for this audience- and only in circumstances where the book is being provided at government expense.
The left, on the other hand, wants to simply erase works that it doesn't like from existence.