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MEMORY LANE | #IBM gets Out of #Facial_Recognition business, calls on Congress to advance policies tackling #racial_injustice. June 9 2020. “We believe now is the time to begin a national dialogue on whether and how facial recognition technology should be employed by #domestic_law_enforcement agencies.”

The decision for IBM to get out of the facial recognition business comes amid criticism of the technology, employed by multiple companies, for exhibiting racial and gender bias. Amazon’s own use of facial recognition was put to a shareholder vote last year, with 2.4% of shareholders voting in favor of #banning the sale of the technology to government agencies amid privacy and civil rights concerns

“IBM firmly opposes and will not condone uses of any technology, including facial recognition technology..

more..

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/08/ibm-gets-out-of-facial-recognition-business-calls-on-congress-to-advance-policies-tackling-racial-injustice.html

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Banning ideas & rewriting history

Free event & discussion on #banning #books, rewriting textbooks and established courses & disrupting school board meetings -- even here in California. Is this a culture war or is it a step closer to undermining our freedoms and democracy?

Monday, Aug 21, 2023 at 5:30 PM

#Napa County Library, 580 Coombs St, Napa, CA

@bookstodon

https://patch.com/california/napavalley/calendar/event/20230821/4eb4a604-90cf-496b-a215-280451815ee8/aug-21-banning-ideas-rewriting-history-threats-to-our-democracy

»#NewYork City is #banning #TikTok from city-owned devices and requiring agencies to remove the app within the next 30 days.« https://www.theverge.com/2023/8/16/23834579/nyc-tiktok-ban-new-york-china-surveillance-spy?eicker.news #tech #media

#KamalaHarris claim about states #banning #teaching #Latinohistory relies on some flawed examples
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2023/aug/07/kamala-harris/kamala-harris-claim-about-states-banning-teaching/
#FactCheck #Arizona

If the #library is one of the few places left that constitute a public square, #censoring #banning #books about queer life is the same as pushing queer people out of public life (& actual life too). #FirstAmendment #FreePress #FreedomToRead https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/17/opinion/public-libraries-book-bans-lgbt.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Some symbiotic relationships, such as parenting integrated with political intolerances, can become “harmful to minors” through the influence inhibiting and micro-restricting future opportunities, empathies and identities as succeeding adults.
Parenting losing its networks of support for a system of distrust.

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/north-carolina-republicans-bill-librarians-1234787735/

#StitchedInkMedia #Politics #Education #Indoctrination #Books #Libraries #Psychology #Bias #Flipboard #Science #Banning #Art #Librarians #Power #SystemicEvolutions

A profile of Citizens Defending Liberty, the conservative group #banning #books and curtailing freedoms of LGBTQIA people because they’re enabled by Ron DeSantis and his ilk. #FirstAmendment #FreedomToRead
https://www.washingtonpost.com/religion/2023/07/13/education-lgbtq-citizens-defending-freedom/

Though TikTok we must ban
U.S. lawmakers must still plan
Change is necessary

#tiktok #uslawmakers #banning #change #haiku #poetry

https://www.reuters.com/technology/us-lawmakers-considering-changes-tiktok-bill-senator-2023-07-10/

It's not a lot of money, it's the power of those views/ impressions. My usual soap box here re: nationalize Meta, Twitter, gimme a 21st C Fairness Doctrine, no surprises from me.
#Meta #FB #Insta #FaceBook #still #profiting #from #groomer #ads #despite #banning #them | #so #surprised | #not | #lgbtq #rights #are #human rights https://www.mediamatters.org/facebook/meta-still-profiting-ads-use-anti-lgbtq-groomer-slur-despite-platforms-ban

No, #NewYorkCity isn’t #banning coal or wood-fired #pizzaovens
https://www.ktvb.com/article/news/verify/food-verify/new-york-city-coal-wood-fired-pizza-oven-cook-stoves-proposed-rule-emissions-fact-check/536-bec834c8-a5df-4f79-a16a-556ced17298c

banning · toys · woman · zimbabwe
https://papercliff.github.io/redirect/?q=banning+toys+woman+zimbabwe&tbs=cdr:1,cd_min:6/24/2023,cd_max:6/26/2023
#news #banning #woman

“Maus,” Art Spiegelman’s award-winning graphic #novel about his family’s experience in the Holocaust, survives #book-#banning #censorship attack in Nixa, Missouri. But four other books do not. One is “Unpregnant,” about a teenager’s out-of-state odyssey in search of an abortion.
https://www.news-leader.com/story/news/education/2023/06/21/nixa-school-board-removes-four-books-restricts-two-but-keeps-maus/70336105007/

The moment people began #censoring #banning queer literature—& comics—sales took off: filmmaker and comics artist talk about gay comics, old and new generations of artists, and why censorship backfires.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2023/01/22/alison-bechdel-queer-comics-pbs/

The moment people began #censoring #banning queer literature—& comics—sales took off: filmmaker and comics artist talk about gay comics, old and new generations of artists, and why censorship backfires.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2023/01/22/alison-bechdel-queer-comics-pbs/

If there's one thing #Germany should undoubtly import for #Israel, it's the #banning of political parties for being #racist!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kach_(political_party)#Ban_from_running_in_elections

#Freespeech used to be honored by both left and right — now shouting down opponents and #banning disliked speech is a #bipartisan cause
https://www.mtsu.edu/first-amendment/post/4128/free-speech-used-to-be-honored-by-both-left-and-right-now-shouting-down-opponents-and-banning-disliked-speech-is-a-bipartisan-cause

eicker.news #technews »#TikTok #sues #Montana over law #banning the app : The widely expected #lawsuit argues that banning a hugely popular #socialmedia app amounts to an #illegalsuppression of #freespeech tantamount to #censorship.« https://www.npr.org/2023/05/22/1177541355/tiktok-sues-lawsuit-montana-law-ban

Inside the lawsuit by parents, #authors, PEN America and #publisher Penguin Random House against Escambia County, Florida schools over #book #banning #censorship. There’s a lot to see. #FirstAmendment #FreedomToRead https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/19/opinion/book-ban-escambia-florida-lawsuit.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Inside the lawsuit by parents, #authors, PEN America and #publisher Penguin Random House against Escambia County, Florida schools over #book #banning #censorship. There’s a lot more here than your average book ban. #FirstAmendment #FreedomToRead https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/19/opinion/book-ban-escambia-florida-lawsuit.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Lawsuit filed by #authors, a #publisher, PEN America and parents against #book #banning #censorship in Escambia County, Florida could have major impact, curtailing power of officials who remove material from schools for ideological reasons #FirstAmendment #FreedomToRead

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/05/17/book-bans-desantis-lawsuit-pen-america/