Even a liberal like Pete Seeger once said that we do need censorship........ that there were things children shouldn't see or come into contact with.
The worst kind of censorship is being excercized by many public librarians with a liberal mind-set......They make "limited resource" decisions all of the time, and tilt things decidedly away from conservative or even what would be considered "wholesome" written material. Any attempt to hold them to account for thier decisions is labeled as censoship in itself.
And public librarians are GOVERNMENT employees.
This particular online conversation had started with one librarian pleading for help from fellow librarians. The dilemma they faced was that some library patron wanted to donate a multi-year subscription to Citizen Magazine to the library. This simply would not do! This librarian was determined that no scurrilous (i.e. conservative) magazine would ever be found desecrating the hallowed halls of THEIR sacred institution!
But of course the problem was that if s/he came right out and told the patron the true reason why their offer was being refused, it could potentially cause problems (if this person tried to press the issue). So the plea to the fellow librarians online was, "How do you handle situations like this?"
And there were a variety of helpful answers, all of them amounting to "Here are some nice, handy, believable sounding lies that we have found effective in preventing any rightwing trash from crossing our threshholds".
And yet these are always the first people to scream "censorship" when someone wants to install internet filters to keep out the child porn!.