Conservative book banners in Utah are targeting Little Free Libraries and want to make the owners susceptible to criminal charges.
    • bizarroland@fedia.io
      13·
      2 months ago

      There is no evil under the Sun that has not been committed by man.

      As a species we are 100,000 years old but we are only just barely out of the dark ages.

      • metaStatic@kbin.earth
        82·
        2 months ago

        firstly, 300,000 years

        secondly, just because someone has struck the flint does not mean the kindling has caught. Do not mistake intelligence for wisdom.

    • Che Banana@beehaw.org
      7·
      2 months ago

      Utah: Wear our special underwear, pay our special sky daddy his tithe, obey unquestionably, and go fuck yourselves.

      Mormans are the Scientologists of the boomers.

    • bizarroland@fedia.io
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      1 month ago

      I imagine it would be possible to set up like a kiwix server with text and PDF files of these books downloaded from Gutenberg, using only of course public domain copies, and then set up a QR code that would allow someone passing by to pair with your kiwix server, download those books and then have their own copy of them.

    • Furball@sh.itjust.works
      11·
      2 months ago

      Books are small files which aren’t big enough for torrents to be useful. Go ahead and look on z-lib, which has whatever book you could possibly want available for direct download

      • zcd@lemmy.ca
        2·
        2 months ago

        I was thinking of a large curated torrent, every time the a book gets banned it gets added to the torrent, one stop shop to fight modern book burning

      • Takumidesh@lemmy.world
        1·
        1 month ago

        P2p protocols like BitTorrent are useful because they are decentralized and very very hard to control by authority.

        Shutting down one or a cluster of servers owned by one person is easier than chasing after 10,000 people in 100 different countries.

  • ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    2 months ago

    Honestly I’d be surprised if they could pull that off, they can’t technically control it unless it’s on their property, so any on private property should be protected by 1A. But if anyone can pull it off, it’s Morons Mormons in Utah, so there’s that…