Madison County Public Library administrators were asked to go over a list of potentially “sexually explicit” books to be moved from the children’s and young adult section to the adult section. The majority of these books were about the LGBTQ community. At least one was added to the list because the author’s last name is Gay.
Reminds me of the good old days when AOL was king of the dial-up “internet”. They unilaterally rolled out a filter that suddenly completely broke a forum devoted to survivors of breast cancer. Only after a ton of backlash and negative press about “survivors of hooter cancer” did they relent…
This one seems apocryphal to my ear, but it’s possible.
Edit: I stand corrected!
https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-1995-12-02-1995336086-story.html
All it took was a google search for “aol hooter cancer”…
Thanks! My Google Fu must be getting weak, I foolishly left AOL out of my search. 🤦🏻♂️