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2023-08-15 20:16:41 UTC - HELPFUL
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This is false. Republicans have embraced book bans as a hallmark of their party (https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2023-04-22/book-bans-soaring-schools-new-laws-republican-states). Book banning is one of the most widely used historic forms of censorship: https://www.mtsu.edu/first-amendment/article/986/book-banning Republicans are for censorship and against free speech.
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