Book Banners Don't Know What a Book Ban Is

It seems like everyone wants to ban a book, and no one wants to be a book banner.
a collage of sentences from news articles all saying "this is not a book ban" and "we're not banning books"

But the truth is that a book ban isn't the same as making it illegal to buy or sell that book in the entire country. It's not putting a book title in the same category as selling heroin or looking for elephant tusks on the black market. It's absurd to shift the goal posts by trying to say that book banning is an on/off switch, where as long as someone, somewhere, somehow can access the book, it's never been banned.