An alarming, but very little-publicized pandemic is growing rapidly in the United States. PEN America, a century-old institution dedicated to protecting the freedom of writing, has just denounced that books are currently under deep attack in the United States. In 2022 alone, petitions have been registered to censor more than 2,500 titles (double the previous year), focusing, as was to be expected, on LGBTI-themed titles and on essays or novels where racial, sexual or social discrimination is denounced. social. It is Florida, the state governed by the ultra-conservative De Santis, the state that is leading this new crusade: counties like Duval have become famous because there are already users who post videos in which library shelves are seen literally empty, after having passed a meticulous censorship.
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