Chasin' the Rolo"[W]e haven't been staying away so much as not coming here."
~Ron Nasty
azteclady#USPolitics #BookBans #Librarians #MutualAid
If you live in the U.S. and use your local library, you may be aware of the raging censorship movement taking place all over the country (no, blue states aren't safe from the push). What you may not realize is how many librarians fight for the freedom to read for all of us--adults and children. It often costs them their job.
If you can, drop a few dollars to help Luanne James as she fights:
https://www.gofundme.com/f/fsg98-help-luanne-james-in-her-time-of-need
Inky says "What the hell?!"Reactor (Tor.com) on the Book Ban Bill working it's way through the US House of Representatives.
https://reactormag.com/what-to-know-about-the-national-book-ban-bill/
Know it to fight it.
Maoist Ministry Of PrisonsSTOP ARKANSAS BOOK BAN
The AR DOC is attempting to implement the most restrictive ban on physical publications in any state prison under the lie of safety. (see https://www.prisoncensorship.info/article/arkansas-attempts-ban-on-all-publications/)
Contact the Director and the Board of Corrections to express the importance of newspapers, magazines and books in prisons; that group punishment for a few incidents is a violation of the UN minimum standard for the treatment of prisoners; and that no staff have been harmed by substances on mail.
Dexter Payne
Director of Division of Correction
(870) 2676200
[email protected]
Lindsay Wallace
Secretary of the Dept of Corrections
[email protected]
**Board of Corrections**
P.O. Box 20550
White Hall, AR 71612
(870) 2676754
Dr. Dubs Byers
[email protected]
Jamie Barker
[email protected]
Nathan Lee
[email protected]
Boyce Hamlet
[email protected]
Grant Hodges
[email protected]
Lee Watson
[email protected]
Pastor Alonza Jiles
[email protected]
Tool to automatically message officials: https://win.newmode.net/arkansasjusticereformcoalition/stopprisonbookban
#MIM #PrisonCensorship #Arkansas #BookBans #PrisonBannedBooks
petersuberUpdate. Here's some detail on #AI tools to help conservative schools ban books.
https://www.404media.co/blockade-the-right-is-using-ai-content-scanners-to-try-to-supercharge-book-banning/
One is BLOCKADE, which stands for “Blocking Lustful Overzealous Content, Keeping Away Depravity and Extremism."
"The program’s script includes a list of roughly 300 words, each assigned a severity score that contributes to an overall appropriateness score…The script explicitly defines 'educational inappropriateness' as 'content offensive to conservative values,' while also asking the AI 'not to include any additional text or explanation' for its decisions."
News BeepTennessee library director ousted after refusing to remove LGBTQ books
Tennessee library director ousted after refusing to remove LGBTQ books | WPLN News On Air – 90.3 WPLN-FM…
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #bookban #bookbans #Education #LuanneJames #RutherfordCounty #UnitedStates #Us #USA
https://www.newsbeep.com/463000/
An unnamed school in the UK used #AI to decide which books to ban from the library.
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/uk-school-library-1984-ai-b1276535.html
#BookBans #Censorship #DefendResearch #Libraries
EDIT. I fixed a broken link. Thanks to @staringatclouds .
Peter SuberAn unnamed school in the UK used #AI to decide which books to ban from the library.
www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/uk-s...
#BookBans #Censorship #DefendResearch #Libraries #Librarysky
George Orwell's 1984 purged fr...
George Orwell's 1984 purged fr...
Ham on WryNothing makes books more interesting than banning them.
Thanks to the book banning efforts of the Republicans, and many of their illiterate supporters, dozens of nearly forgotten books are enjoying new life and growing interest.
#republicans #books #Bookbans #literacy #MAGA #firstamendment #reading #news #censorship
BongolianSteve Rose: ‘In 20 years most of the world could be #racist dictatorships’: Ibram X Kendi on book bans and far-right fear-mongering. How have the rich and powerful convinced so many voters that the reason they are struggling is the poor and powerless? The American historian talks about the weaponising of divisiveness.
#farright #bookbans #censorship #dictatorship #CRT #IbramXKendi
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/22/ibram-x-kendi-fear-fuels-racism-great-replacement-antiracist-chain-ideas
‘In 20 years most of the world could be racist dictatorships’: Ibram X Kendi on book bans and far-right fear-mongering
How have the rich and powerful convinced so many voters that the reason they are struggling is the poor and powerless? The American historian talks about the weaponising of divisiveness