In Murfreesboro, Tennessee, a new city ordinance targeting public homosexuality is hitting libraries. “When in History have the ones banning books been the good guys,” says local activist.

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    the council moved to enact a tiered library card system, where most nonfiction content will be gated behind the adult-only library card.

    Sweet, let’s make sure that kids can’t learn anything adults don’t want them to, which pretty sure is the whole point.

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      “Oh, no,” says the kid on his phone, “I won’t have access to the knowledge from books.”