Seems like they used to. Just tried to register out of state as an adult and got this -
As of July 15, 2022, BPL is no longer offering out of state memberships. BPL library cards remain free for anyone who lives, works, pays property taxes or attends school in New York State.
The library will also make a selection of frequently challenged books available with no holds or wait times for all BPL cardholders, available through the library's online catalog or Libby app. The titles include: The Black Flamingo by Dean Atta, Tomboy by Liz Prince, The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison, The 1619 Project by Nikole Hannah-Jones, Juliet Takes a Breath by Gabby Rivera, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong, and Lawn Boy by Jonathan Evison
...The American Library Association’s Office of Intellectual Freedom counted more than 700 complaints last year, the most since it began keeping records more than 20 years ago.
The Streisand effect tends to happen when a secret is made public and then there's an effort to bury that secret. So I would say there's absolutely been a Streisand effect here, but just in the other direction. You can find countless videos like this [1], where a parent simply reads from books made available by a school, at a school board meeting. School boards largely responded by simply trying to bury these things - enter, Streisand.
It's not a secret that books like these exist, you can find a million of them with a single search. But the fact that they were on school shelves is certainly something that came as a huge surprise to the overwhelming majority of parents.
Politicians studying history and modeling policy after Stalin.
One book banned is a tragedy and news worthy, but banning dozens, hundreds, thousands of book with a common theme is a statistic and just a state's right issue.
Are these books not banned to protect the children? Should other states be allowed to circumvent and subvert protections your state offers children?
How about other countries?
What's the alternative? Do you really envisage a blockade on books crossing state lines? What's next, Smokey and the Librarian?
To put it less confrontationally - the books are banned from schools and public libraries. They're not banned from private purchase or private ownership. You can give these books, you can gift them, you can sell them, you can loan them. Just not anywhere that's publicly funded.
So there's really no difference between them being available from Brooklyn Library and being available from Amazon. As long as Texas isn't funding the BPL, there's no issue here.
No, they’re banned because the people who decided the ban disagree with content that questions their political ideology. For example, this includes a lot of books on racism.
"In other cases, such as the Nazi book burnings, copies of the destroyed books survive, but the instance of book burning becomes emblematic of a harsh and oppressive regime which is seeking to censor or silence some aspect of prevailing culture."
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_burning
Neve liked the idea of ebooks before, but this puts them in a new light.
Because they do want to keep earning money from older people with such a card, and those are not as badly impacted by the book bans. Seems entirely reasonable to me.
[+] [-] DoreenMichele|2 years ago|reply
This is the main detail. People from elsewhere can normally get access for a fee but for a limited time they are waiving the fee for this age group.
[+] [-] alternativity|2 years ago|reply
As of July 15, 2022, BPL is no longer offering out of state memberships. BPL library cards remain free for anyone who lives, works, pays property taxes or attends school in New York State.
[+] [-] hackernewds|2 years ago|reply
How does this prevent someone from India accessing ebooks? it would seem not something publishers would be okay with
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[+] [-] 99_00|2 years ago|reply
Why am I not hearing and seeing more about the books that were banned?
Is it no longer a thing?
[+] [-] DoreenMichele|2 years ago|reply
...The American Library Association’s Office of Intellectual Freedom counted more than 700 complaints last year, the most since it began keeping records more than 20 years ago.
[+] [-] somenameforme|2 years ago|reply
It's not a secret that books like these exist, you can find a million of them with a single search. But the fact that they were on school shelves is certainly something that came as a huge surprise to the overwhelming majority of parents.
[1] - https://twitter.com/gratefulAC19/status/1453174598380441603
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[+] [-] soneil|2 years ago|reply
To put it less confrontationally - the books are banned from schools and public libraries. They're not banned from private purchase or private ownership. You can give these books, you can gift them, you can sell them, you can loan them. Just not anywhere that's publicly funded.
So there's really no difference between them being available from Brooklyn Library and being available from Amazon. As long as Texas isn't funding the BPL, there's no issue here.
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[+] [-] kgwxd|2 years ago|reply
From words? Freedom of speech. So, yes.
[+] [-] unknown|2 years ago|reply
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[+] [-] beardyw|2 years ago|reply
Neve liked the idea of ebooks before, but this puts them in a new light.
[+] [-] zx8080|2 years ago|reply
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[+] [-] JumpCrisscross|2 years ago|reply
By the Brooklyn Public Library?
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[+] [-] etchalon|2 years ago|reply
https://www.ftc.gov/legal-library/browse/rules/childrens-onl...
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