#readstatement — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #readstatement, aggregated by home.social.
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Why we must fight attempts to undermine our freedom to read
In 1953, at the height of the McCarthyist red scare, the #AmericanLibraryAssociation & the Association of American Publishers issued a #Freedom to #ReadStatement The organizations expressed concerns about the rising public sentiment that it was worth violating core First Amendment freedoms to keep certain ideas from reaching American readers
The statement, last updated in 2004, begins: “The freedom to read is essential to our #democracy