and "we are a conservative community" - read 'conservative religious community'.
Believe me, I know; this rings a LOT of "enforcing one person's religious dictates" bells. It's far from the first time I've seen the advice to simply check out a book so nobody else can get it when a ban fails - it's keeping it under personal lock and key and using privileges to check personal details that launches this from "random minor censorship issue #4475398765982" to Orwellian territory.
I don't see anything in the articles I've read that the library policy said that this was okay - this seems to be a personal crusade of Cook's more than anything, and a splashy way of being a martyr.
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Date: 2009-11-11 07:27 pm (UTC)Believe me, I know; this rings a LOT of "enforcing one person's religious dictates" bells. It's far from the first time I've seen the advice to simply check out a book so nobody else can get it when a ban fails - it's keeping it under personal lock and key and using privileges to check personal details that launches this from "random minor censorship issue #4475398765982" to Orwellian territory.
I don't see anything in the articles I've read that the library policy said that this was okay - this seems to be a personal crusade of Cook's more than anything, and a splashy way of being a martyr.