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Gov. Gavin Newson signed a law that will fine schools for banning books and charge them for textbook replacements if the content does not comply with anti-discrimination legislation. “Remarkable that we’re living in a country right now in this banning binge, this cultural purge that we’re experiencing all throughout America and now increasingly here in the state of California, where we have school districts banning books, banning free speech, criminalizing librarians and teachers,” he said.
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00:00Remarkable that we're living in a country right now in this banning
00:17bridge, this cultural purge that we're experiencing all throughout America and
00:22now increasingly here in the state of California where we have school
00:26districts, large and small, banning books, banning free speech, criminalizing
00:31librarians and teachers and we want to do more than just push back rhetorically
00:34against that and that's what this legislation provides.
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