Alberta's book ban backfires as librarians remove dystopian classics

Alberta's conservative government just discovered that banning books about authoritarian control might make you look authoritarian.

As reported in the Guardian, Premier Danielle Smith had to slam the brakes on her shiny new book ban after librarians dutifully started pulling classics like The Handmaid's Tale, 1984, and Brave New World off the shelves, novels about totalitarian governments controlling what people can read.

The premier, angry that her vague directive about "explicit sexual content" could be interpreted broadly, accused school boards of "vicious compliance." Which is basically what happens when you tell librarians to start censoring books. 00:00/09:18 10

Canadian author Margaret Atwood, responded by tweeting a short story mocking Smith's authoritarian dictate.

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