Many people have been conditioned to think that "You might as well drink water from the bathtub or toilet bowl of the dirtiest person you know" rather than drink from a public water fountain, ever since the free market was given (for what in return?) the monopoly on quenching public thirst.
Public libraries seem to be going the way of water fountains (before the current call to bring water fountains back). Unfortunately, the metaphor breaks when it comes to bringing back the purged.
Read The Great Purge of Our Libraries by Michael Wilding in the current (July–August) issue of Quadrant Magazine.
"… in our brave new world, uncontrolled access to information has been deemed problematic."
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