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Here's the thing: the censorship issue doesn't just affect school and public libraries. It affects you too. If they succeed in getting books pulled from libraries and librarians fired or prosecuted, they won't stop at libraries. They're going to move on to book stores and your home book shelves. And then they're going to move on to speech outside of books that they don't like. They're not going to be satisfied at just stopping a few book checkouts and taking a few jobs at the library you don't even use, so it doesn't affect you. When your speech on the internet is monitored and "corrected," and when what you say out loud is criminalized, maybe you'll see that it affects you. It starts with getting an LGBTQ book off a public library shelf. It ends with the death of free speech. Don't let it come to that. #libraries