https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/110901448144850455

"There's something ironic about people in charge of education not knowing enough to critically determine which books are good or bad to include in curriculum, only to outsource the decision to a system that can't understand books and can't critically think at all," Dr. Margaret Mitchell, chief ethicist scientist at Hugging Face

_At Hugging Face_

#llm #america #BookBanning

#BookBanning This is the way the #GOzP rolls. 1 parent complaint about a book on racism and a GOP School board grants her wish. Can you believe the reason? Paraphrased: It’s un-American because it makes white kids feel uncomfortable, really?? This is definitely the “Asleep” agenda vs being “woke”, and aware of wrongs in our society. That really does fit into the big picture Republican agenda regarding the sheep. 🤬 https://www.npr.org/2023/09/08/1198373620/1-parent-is-responsible-for-a-book-ban-in-north-carolina

https://www.fightforthefirst.org/petitions/stop-the-defunding-of-samuels-public-library?source=rawlink&utm_source=rawlink&share=4b37cdbb-fe7e-4541-aee9-05b559d86230

#library #bookbanning #bookbans

My childhood home state of#Alabama is attempting to give #Florida a run for its money regarding which one can be the most socially regressive.
https://medium.com/prismnpen/denying-our-gay-reality-in-the-heart-of-dixie-67453e3c9103?sk=c2ac73240ad10964c1c69f3711810ce8

#LGBTQ #Gay #BookBanning #CultureWar #Equality #Culture

📚 Exclusive: Messy Roots author Laura Gao talks about potential book ban and growing anti-LGBTQ sentiment

"Given ​the ​state ​of ​the ​world ​today, ​and ​especially ​within ​the ​US, ​I ​kind ​of ​figured ​it ​would ​come ​sooner ​or ​later. ​But ​it ​was ​just ​really ​disheartening ​to ​hear ​about ​this."

#lgbt #lgbtqia #lgbtqbookstodon #books #bookstodon #freespeech #bookbanning #censorship

https://howtobe247.com/laura-gao-on-messy-roots-book-ban-and-anti-lgbtq-sentiment/

Watch: https://youtu.be/akhhmlBv2Hk

Good news for readers: A federal judge has blocked Texas's book rating law that would have forced publishers and booksellers to rate books for "sexual content" as a condition for doing business with Texas schools #WritingCommunity #Publishing #BookBanning https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/bookselling/article/93089-judge-blocks-texas-book-ban-law.html

There is a great article in the Indy Star today about book censorship in Indianapolis. I highly recommend everyone check it out!

https://www.indystar.com/story/opinion/2023/08/29/hamilton-east-public-library-john-green-fights-thought-control-kurt-vonnegut/70701089007/

#BookBanning #Censorship #Indianapolis

#BookBanning is just one assault as part of a larger war. They seek to re-establish the “good old days” of second-class status for anyone not a #white, #cisgender, #heterosexual #Christian. That is their “#CultureWar.”
https://medium.com/prismnpen/book-banning-blitzkrieg-white-cisgender-heteronormative-books-only-please-f3b90371824?sk=f1e5cb60f41414634ad61c27a381acf6

#LGBTQ #Education #Racism #Equality

Authors - don't wait until it's YOUR book that's been banned to speak out against these asinine policies. Fight now for your freedom to read and to be read!

#BookBanning
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‘Friday Night Lights’ author slams ‘absolutely tragic’ Iowa book ban
https://thehill.com/homenews/education/4157099-friday-night-lights-author-slams-absolutely-tragic-iowa-book-ban/

@thatandromeda thank you, great thread! Hashtagging for visibility: #chatgpt #censorship #bookbanning

If you don’t like the curriculum in a public school, send your kids to a religious school.
https://medium.com/prismnpen/our-public-schools-are-not-your-church-433965b10be

#LGBTQ #Education #PublicSchools #Religion #BookBanning #CultureWar

An Iowa school district is using ChatGPT to decide which books to ban - Enlarge (credit: Getty Images)

In response to recently enacted... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=1961316 #machinelearning #bookbanning #culture #bookban #chatgpt #chatgtp #biz⁢ #tech #iowa #ai

Libraries and schools all over the U.S. are banning #Heartstopper as “too sexualized” despite that nobody has sex, gets naked, describes sex, or anything close.
https://medium.com/prismnpen/heartstopper-banned-idaho-teacher-of-the-year-flees-over-trans-support-e8f9bd819244?sk=1c7c4b7eef54360546c45ab64e6bcf3c

#LGBTQ #BookBanning #Libraries #Schools #Education #CultureWar

#Shakespeare: the good, bad, baudy, naughty, salacious, serious, high-low-and-middle-brow, and transcendent bits, and why they all need to stay in #schools. #FirstAmendment #FreedomToRead #censorship #books #bookbanning https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/13/opinion/shakespeare-canceled-schools.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

I used my birthday money one year to get a copy of Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex and Deirdre Bair’s biography of her. (Neither were in the public library.)

I read everything I could get my hands on. I read trash. I read classics. I read fantasy novels. I read dirty books. I read fucking everything and I was allowed to do it.

No one took any book away from me, ever. This is why I despise #bookbanning Let kids read ffs. /fin

@adoramyers What good would #BookBanning at #PublicSchools by #MomsForLiberty do if #PublicLibraries can still lend them out?

Coming to the rescue of #MaterNazis , #BananaRepublicans are shutting down #Libraries ! 👉 https://www.vox.com/platform/amp/politics/2023/5/5/23711417/republicans-want-to-defund-public-libraries-book-bans

#SaveAmerica from the #MAGA cult of ignorance and hate.

#jasonaldean #bookBans #bookbanning #hypocrisy #projection

"It is central to the First Amendment that the government can neither restrain nor compel speech, but this law will force booksellers to label constitutionally protected works of literature and nonfiction with highly subjective and stigmatizing ratings, effectively forcing private actors to convey and act upon the government’s views even when they disagree." - Allison K. Hill, American Booksellers Association CEO in a joint statement

#PushingBack #BookBanning

https://www.bookweb.org/news/aba-files-suit-challenging-texas-censorship-law-1629754

Not unexpected: a coalition of booksellers and book industry groups have filed a lawsuit to block Texas's new book rating law #WritingCommunity #BookBanning #Bookselling https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/publisher-news/article/92858-booksellers-industry-groups-file-suit-to-block-texas-book-rating-law.html

Booksellers Move to the Front Lines of the Fight Against Book Bans in Texas

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/25/books/book-banning-texas-lawsuit.html?

#bookbanning