This is the context - an Idaho law that penalizes any library that allows minors access to "inappropriate" content, and lets each child's parent define what "inappropriate" means. So libraries could be penalized if, for example, a homeschooled Christian child reads a book on biology that mentions evolution or a YA novel with a gay character, and their parents object to it. Or if a liberal parent objects to their child reading the Bible or Quran.
Given the wide scope and uncertain limits of this law, some Idaho libraries are banning minors entirely. As was, I suspect, the goal.
Laws like this are becoming widespread in red states and will likely become federal law with Project 2025.
The United States is becoming a nation where parents' right to keep their kids stupid and bigoted is more important than children's right to learn. And if that isn't a sign of collapse I don't know what is.
The goal is probably to kill library attendance numbers so that they can say nobody is going to the library, and cancel the budget. Then they're free to use that money for other things, kick-backs to their nephew who is a housing developer, extra M16's for the cops, or whatever.
Ah, this is probably it. In my head I forgot for a sec that it's never ACTUALLY about protecting the kids - this is the next step.