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Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years ago

Alabama library mistakenly adds children's book to "explicit" list because of author's name

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Alabama library mistakenly adds children's book to "explicit" list because of author's name

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Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years ago

An Alabama public library director says the library mistakenly added a children’s picture book to a list of potentially inappropriate titles because the author’s last name is “Gay."

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i mean that’s basically as stupid as the real filter

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