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petersuberKudos to #California.
What is your state doing to identify and avoid the #textbooks revised to ingratiate #Florida extremists?
Update. Is anyone making a public list of those #textbooks? That would benefit the whole country.
It seems to me that such a list could satisfy the @wikipedia #NPOV. "Here are the revised, #FL-approved books" and either "no opinion on whether the revisions were a good idea" or "here is the controversy". But even if Wikipedia would reject it, there are many other ways to make a #crowdsourced #openaccess list.
We Can Be Gyros@petersuber add the #January6thInsurrection to textbooks.
Scott, present & accounted for@WecanbeGyros @petersuber This is awesome.
Arena Cops 🇺🇦✌@petersuber Florida's Constitution-beater DeSantis & his junta need to be expressly reminded, that the First Amendment also applies to the state of Florida & its anti-constitutional governor & regime:
=> Gitlow v. New York (1925), SCOTUS ruling.
"Congress shall make no law... ...abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press;..."
#RuleOfLaw #FreedomOfExpression #EducationMatters #HistoryMatters #RogueDeSantis #RemoveRon #DefraudingAmerica #BetrayingAmerica #StupefactionOfPeople
CautionWIP 🎃+🇨🇦+🏳️🌈= 
@ArenaCops @petersuber I’m not an American, so I may be off, but I don’t think this specific incident counts as censorship. In this instance they’re saying that they won’t buy the books unless they’re printed the way they like them. The company is free to print them, but they’ll have to sell them elsewhere. It’s market pressure rather than censorship. Which is why the CA letter is so perfect. They’re forcing them to choose a market, and CA is a bigger one.
John O’Donnell@cautionwip @ArenaCops @petersuber
You, as a customer, has the right to choose what you consume, be it food, media, or anything else, within the law. Does the, or a, state have the right to decide this however?
This is something that the US, and it’s constitutional right to free expression, are having to deal with.
Now you can have issues with any law you want, but at least they were voted on by the representatives of the people.
You, as a customer, has the right to choose what you consume, be it food, media, or anything else, within the law. Does the, or a, state have the right to decide this however?
This is something that the US, and it’s constitutional right to free expression, are having to deal with.
Now you can have issues with any law you want, but at least they were voted on by the representatives of the people.
@cautionwip @ArenaCops @petersuber
You can ask where was this vote on censorship, and the abridgement of constitutional rights?
You can ask where was this vote on censorship, and the abridgement of constitutional rights?
@Jodami @ArenaCops @petersuber Ummm..as someone not in the US, as I said, I’m unfamiliar with the finer points. I’m just pointing out that it’s not direct censorship (though it is in practice, obviously). Not quite sure what you were saying there. 🤷🏽
@cautionwip @ArenaCops @petersuber
Me neither, to be honest. I do find the US Constitution darkly amusing, when you consider it was signed by slave owners.
Me neither, to be honest. I do find the US Constitution darkly amusing, when you consider it was signed by slave owners.
@Jodami @ArenaCops @petersuber Yah, we still have a bloody monarch here and we just re-wrote our constitution 40 years ago. It’s quite embarrassing.
@cautionwip @ArenaCops @petersuber
We don’t have a constitution, and we are paying for the monarchy.
On the other hand, we have an unelected second chamber with bishops in it.
None of it seems to make any difference, you always end up with rich folks making the decisions.
We don’t have a constitution, and we are paying for the monarchy.
On the other hand, we have an unelected second chamber with bishops in it.
None of it seems to make any difference, you always end up with rich folks making the decisions.
@cautionwip @petersuber Removing or excluding historical & other relevant information from textbooks for "ideological" reasons IS censorship, dude!
What Florida's DeSantis & other "GOP" wannabe-Mussolinis like TX's Abbott are engaging in here is rebellion against the Constitution & the authority of the Union/ United States, starting with disenlightening the citizens of the states, they fraudulently gained power over.
And "freedom of the press", which shall not be abridged by congressional laws, clearly refers not only to newspapers & TV stations (within admissible limits), but also to *print media* like textbook used for valuable educational purposes.
#DefendAmerica #DefendDemocracy #Democracy #FreeSpeech #YourVoiceMatters #YouMatter #GOPCensors #ProsecuteALLRebels
Sorry I wasn’t clear. Obviously this is censorship in practical terms, no disagreement. I’m just wondering if it passes the barrier for the legal qualifications of the term “censorship”, ie using the direct power of the government to prevent them from printing it in the first place. Does “flexing our market share strength” qualify for a legal challenge to be mounted.
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Pixburghgrrl@petersuber And what are the chances that textbook publishers are loathe to create multiple editions of textbooks so the whole country will be as ignorant as DeSantis' Florida children are now?
Jimbo@Pixburghgrrl @petersuber California is a bigger market than Florida. So. . .
In my humble opinion, textbook publishers should sell textbooks that tell the facts and Florida should black out the parts they don't want kids to know themselves.
toxtethogrady@petersuber If California wanted, they could dictate textbook content like they dictate emissions standards...
@toxtethogrady @petersuber
I want my constitutional right to poison the atmosphere of my fellow citizens is an unusual take on the first amendment.
I want my constitutional right to poison the atmosphere of my fellow citizens is an unusual take on the first amendment.
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Noah Arney@petersuber I'm sure the publishers will just begin creating state specific textbook editions, which is the easiest way out for them. Especially if any of them are digital texts.
Heartbreaking to see this happen.
Woolfhound@narney @petersuber If this happens, a movement to make the unredacted textbooks available to students in states like Florida and Texas would be excellent.
anothername@petersuber
ha. I'm in Indiana. They're trying to do the same thing.
ha. I'm in Indiana. They're trying to do the same thing.
LiverpoolWiz@petersuber As in the UK with the lunatics of the National Conservatives, we are fast approaching The Handmaid's Tale situation. This book was published in1985 in the USA, 1986 in the UK, so the cult has been forming for many years.
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@petersuber I hope people will soon press charges against corrupt politicians for visiting DeSantis...
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Winston Marlowe@petersuber I proudly live in California.
Mark de Vries 🇪🇺@petersuber This shows the danger this kind of local oppressive legalization poses for the rest of the country/world.
It’s often easier (read: cheaper) to use one redacted version, that meet all the different objections, than to publish loads of different versions.
Only full pressure of freedom backing states/countries can stimulate organizations to straighten their backs and say: “We will not comply to your freedom culling demands and if we are banned for that, so be it!”
It’s often easier (read: cheaper) to use one redacted version, that meet all the different objections, than to publish loads of different versions.
Only full pressure of freedom backing states/countries can stimulate organizations to straighten their backs and say: “We will not comply to your freedom culling demands and if we are banned for that, so be it!”
Asiny@petersuber Go California!