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The American Library Association said it tracked an "unprecedented number of attempts to ban books" in 2021.

The measure is just one of several proposals introduced in Tennessee this year designed to impose more scrutiny and transparency in public school libraries.

Tennessee Rep. Jerry Sexton, from Bean Station, said he'd burn the books that got banned by the legislation he introduced that would let the state decide what books could go in school libraries. The law passed moments later. This measure would take away the role held by librarians.

But, i mean, it makes you laugh about it if it wasn't so sad. i'm not quite sure what exactly we're doing. if you want to bring it back to the 50,000-foot view, it's putinesque, it's authoritarianism. it's showing what we don't want the united states of america to be. this is the proverbial book burning minus the smoke and flames. in school there should be a place. i'm not for cancel culture on either side. i think if you want to bring somebody who is a right wing nut to the campus, you should be able to do that. i think if you want to educate people or whatever, you should be able to do that....

"What happened in Linköping and Norrköping is completely reprehensible and will never be accepted," the Swedish National Police Chief said in a statement.