Stocking a book in a library is not speech from the government. If it were, we couldn't have religious books in school libraries, but we do.
If stocking a book is not speech then it is not a restriction on speech to decide not to stock a book.
Readit Newspoplarsol commented on "None of These Books Are Obscene": Judge Strikes Down Much of FL's Book Ban Bill bookriot.com/penguin-rand... · Posted by u/healsdata
It's shocking how little opposition laws like get this from people who call themselves "free speech absolutists." Here we have straightforward censorship, by the government, yet it all flies under the radar.
The people who fight for free speech in these cases, devoting time and money to it, and have real meaningful effect, self-describe in more ordinary ways.
All of these books are freely available if you would like to spend your own money on them, as opposed to public funds.
poplarsol commented on PEP 779: Free-threaded Python is officially supported docs.python.org/3.14/what... · Posted by u/subset
Is this still something that must be enabled at compile-time, or will it be supported via a runtime flag?
The great thing about California is that most things are de jure illegal and de facto unenforced until someone decides to make an example of you.