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Yea some books shouldn't be read by America's children.
Libraries have to make decisions about how to stock their shelves. So I'm actually going to agree with Jared on this one.
I suppose so long as the library isn't publicly funded… which is basically all of them. So no.
Aside from that issue of government censorship, rather than "banned" material, you might see libraries avoid buying some things, perhaps on a basis that it isn't cost-effective to stock it and this might result in effective blacklisting of some books. Or campaigns by the local public either to force particular books into the library or to excise some of them.
I would prefer libraries not be in the business of content censorship by completely and officially banning something and attempting to prevent all citizens from consuming it however.
Over the course of my lifetime, along with the travels that I have done in the service of my country, I have seen what censorship does to a people in their own countries. Censorship by governments is only to serve that governments particular reasoning in and for the total control of its subjects. Nothing more and nothing less. Should our government decide to begin censoring what it is that we Americans can or cannot read – either in the libraries or on the internet – (and we allow it to happen) we will have lost our freedom. We will no longer be citizens of the United states of America . . . We will have become subjects of the American Government.
YES THERE COULD BE BAD BOOKS