Comment on What's the next stop on the authoritarianism express?
Apepollo11@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
A return of the concept of “unamerican” art and activities, to support the destruction and suppression of said things.
I’d normally say book burnings first, but those have been an on-off thing in some parts of the states since the 50s.
So I’ll go with “officially endorsed” book burnings. Not officially organised, mind, but an actual expression of support shown.
BarbecueCowboy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 weeks ago
Burning still has too much of a negative connotation.
They’ll pressure to expand more on banning books in schools, public libraries, pull public funding and restrict government aid payouts for universities unless they follow suit. They’ll let states decide that they can ban books for sale unless the site forces an age check. They’ll give responsibility for the age check system to a corporation that is expected to do a lackluster job and wash their hands of it when there are complaints. Maybe some day they’ll step in to ‘fix’ it resulting in taking it down for maintenance and restructuring and then they just… never bring it back up.