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They will control who a "certified media specialist" and likely intimidate librarians who won't play with criminal prosecution. De facto censorship of everything due to fear of legal ramifications. State legislature for certain won't check this. And who knows what the SC will do. At best refuse to hear the case...
Restricting access and limiting what one can learn and experience is the epitome of indoctrination. This is what cults do. >

Yeah sounds like communism to me. The irony! >

"Certified media specialist" sounds straight out of 1984. There may as well be a Ministry of Media department. I don't understand how r/conservative supports this level of censorship. >

Next the fundies will fight to appoint fascist librarians. >

No, that's not the play.  Anybody can be a librarian.
You just make it so schools can't fund a library, so they can't hire librarians.  Then you control the certification process for 'certified media specialist' to only allow people who pass some sort of ideological purity test.
Just like how the Federalist Society was created to groom judges and then use their influence to get 'their' judges into federal courts.  There could be some non-profit controlled by someone DeSantis likes that becomes the certification authority for media specialists.
Now you have a political figure appointed to oversee any school or school district who conforms with your ideology.
Republicans have no problem making the government bigger if it provides them with more power. >


Anybody can be a librarian.

No, they can’t. Fascists could do the rest of what you described and set up a fascist certification system but actual librarians would not be involved. These people would absolutely isolate themselves from the library world. >

Librarians wouldn't be involved, I 100% agree.  That's why they'd just cut funding for school libraries so they can't hire any librarians.
Then the only people who can approve books are the 'certified media specialists' which can mean whatever the hell DeSantis wants it to mean. >

Remind me how will this survive a first amendment challenge.  Or that it is essentially unenforceable because they can just find a librarian to "approve" everything.