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[Texas Tribune] Federal judge bars Texas from enforcing book rating law (www.texastribune.org)
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House Bill 900 requires book vendors to rate all their materials based on their depictions or references to sex before selling them to schools. Vendors say the law aims to regulate protected speech with “vague and over broad” terms.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

HB 900, which was approved during this year’s regular legislative session, requires school library vendors to rate all their books and materials for appropriateness before selling them to schools based on the presence of sex depictions or references. It also requires vendors to rank materials previously sold to schools and issue a recall for those that are deemed sexually explicit and are in active use by a school.

Man, I wanted to buy a copy of the Bible with all of the MPAA warnings printed on the front!

Contains a ludicrous amount of incest. Not for use by persons under the age of 18.