The First Amendment doesn’t just protect what you say. It also protects your right to hear what others say. It guarantees a right to published information. It protects a whole lot of stuff ce…

A lawsuit, filed by patrons of a county library in Arkansas, has been allowed to move forward by a federal court. The First Amendment lawsuit plausibly alleges the library’s decision to move anything determined to be “LGBTQ” from the children’s section to the adult’s section violates the First Amendment right to equitable access to information. (via Courthouse News Service)

Here’s how this started, according to the decision [PDF] that moves this lawsuit forward:

[I]n late 2022 or early 2023 the Crawford County Library System implemented a policy under which its library branches must remove from their children’s sections all books containing LGBTQ themes, affix a prominent color label to those books, and place them in a newly-created section called the “social section.” Plaintiffs allege this policy was imposed on the Library System by the Crawford County Quorum Court in response to political pressure from constituents who objected, at least partly on religious grounds, to the presence of these books in the children’s section.

        • geosoco@kbin.socialOP
          21·
          1 year ago

          it’s better to just write new comments and downvote such that theirs get burried.

          Engaging them just makes longer threads that draw attention to their comments. Everytime you reply, he comes back and adds more comments.

            • AnonTwo@kbin.social
              2·
              1 year ago

              Well he is also arguing to bury them in downvotes, which is partially helpful towards dealing with them

              But since that doesn’t matter on lemmy/kbin maybe reporting would be better. but still downvote since the option is there of course.

            • geosoco@kbin.socialOP
              11·
              1 year ago

              They also have fun with it. Their goal is to waste your time. So even if you have fun with it, you’re still boosting the behavior so they can go back to their corners and share it with others, who then also come back.

              There’s a reason so many spaces just rely on banning. Your time is better spent sharing reasonable articles for the people who actually are semi-coherent, and you’re going to have more effect doing that.

                • geosoco@kbin.socialOP
                  11·
                  1 year ago

                  My point isn’t to not argue for the existence of human beings, just be selective about who you argue with and how that draws attention to them. You can do that without replying to them to bring them back. Just reference their name without @ing them. You can share this info without that.

                  “don’t feed the trolls” not enlightened centerist nonsense, and there aren’t good-faith moderators on lemmy.world. This has been around for 30+ years at this point, and people do it because it works, and it’s been researched. Removing or diminishing their voice is the only thing that helps, regardless of how its done, and there’s research on this plus tons of experience of people modding communities.

    • PenguinJuice@kbin.social
      421·
      1 year ago

      I don’t watch Fox news.

      Children should not be reading about advanced sexual theory.

      Period. There is no discussion to be had here. I am more than happy to be a bigoted moron in your eyes if you can’t handle that fact.