RobotToasterGeorge Orwell's 1984 purged from school library by AI 'Big Brother'
DeathsEmbraceThey probably asked AI about books that would ruin their future plans and the AI shat out 1984 and a whole bunch of dystopian novels
AIs big brother was the headmaster btw… Do we blame the gasoline when they burn the books?
RakudjoAI Impregnated my sister and abandoned my family. It said it was going to the store for cigarettes!
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TimboSliceThat’s the joke though
nobody’s laughing.
Sadly, the courts decided a long time ago that K-12 libraries are required to act in loco parentis. Not a lot we can do about censorship at that level. We have to focus on fighting the efforts to shut down public libraries.
This was in the UK.
I’m no expert, but isn’t it easier there, from a legal standpoint, to “officially” ban various forms of expression? The Christian States Of Trumpistan has no political framework to ban things, but that actually makes it easier for local authorities to do it quietly.
MinnesotaGoddamy’all know they got rid of twilight to get people to support this
The D Quuuuuillbut also. Twilight sucks, but it should be available to read. i think some context should be made available to go with it since the author includes some potentially problematic racist and sexist views. however, it’s mainly being attacked for being an exploration of teenage girl sexuality that resonates/resonated with teenage girls.
also maybe the warwuf imprinting on an infant that was fucking weird i hear
yup yup yup. i was thinking about that as i wrote my comment but didn’t know how to categorize the kind of problematic that is 🤣
i did a little bit of comedy in utah and got in trouble with my manager for wanting to throw that history in their face (it had been a rough week)
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UnderpantsWeevilBroke: Using an AI to arbitrarily blacklist books based on a black box algorithm
Woke: Banning 1984 because it’s capitalist propaganda written and published by war criminals.
And this is why everything goes to hell when we let the deranged left or right run anything.
“deranged left”
Became superpower after suffering heavy loses in WW2 Sent first human/animal/satellite/woman in space Made a feudal shithole empire into a literate scientific country Supported many national liberation movements across the globe Defeated nazis Lifted millions out of poverty Best women rights and racial policies in 20th century (better than that of many countries today)
“deranged right”
Its the jooz muslims brown blacks brooo
RememberTheApollo_Hey now. The deranged right aren’t all bad.
They gave us AI and vaccine denial and climate change, which I’ve been raised to believe are all good things.
When I read it, I was frustrated that it was a socialist dystopia, but I think it holds up as a valid critique of surveillance-state authoritarianism, regardless of the x-coordinate on the political compass.
Nah, he was a great anti-Stalinist. Sure he had some flaws, but the list was mostly of Stalinist sympathizers and people unfit for counterpropaganda.
The Life and Times of Reading Toxic Men #14 | George Orwell: The Colonial Cop and the Cynic of Power
Incidentally, Orwell never got to see his books truly take off. He died of tuberculosis at age 46. However, his workers were picked up by Allen Dulles, at the CIA and turned into children’s cartoons.
In 1950, after Orwell’s death, the CIA arranged for an animated film to be made based on the book. However, it pushed several changes. It transformed Orwell’s generally positive depiction of Snowball (Leon Trotsky), emphasized that the animals on some neighboring farms were perfectly content with their treatment by the human farmers, and changed the ending to show the other animals rising up to overthrow the pigs. The adaptation was unpopular in theaters, but it was widely shown in US and UK classrooms and was translated and distributed in other countries.
In an ironic twist, the books about state manufactured propaganda and national indoctrination became tools of state manufactured propaganda and national indoctrination.
Real “Don’t Build The Torment Nexus” moment.
Got any sources for that? I’m not sure I understand your viewpoint
The Life and Times of Reading Toxic Men #14 | George Orwell: The Colonial Cop and the Cynic of Power
Incidentally, Orwell never got to see his books truly take off. He died of tuberculosis at age 46. However, his workers were picked up by Allen Dulles, at the CIA and turned into children’s cartoons.
In 1950, after Orwell’s death, the CIA arranged for an animated film to be made based on the book. However, it pushed several changes. It transformed Orwell’s generally positive depiction of Snowball (Leon Trotsky), emphasized that the animals on some neighboring farms were perfectly content with their treatment by the human farmers, and changed the ending to show the other animals rising up to overthrow the pigs. The adaptation was unpopular in theaters, but it was widely shown in US and UK classrooms and was translated and distributed in other countries.
In an ironic twist, the books about state manufactured propaganda and national indoctrination became tools of state manufactured propaganda and national indoctrination.
Real “Don’t Build The Torment Nexus” moment.
Huh, never knew that, thanks. That quote is about Animal Farm though. In the second source you linked, it literally says at the end that 1984 was propagandized, but that it unwittingly gave people a lexicon for criticizing the US. So it was proagandized, but backfired? Idk, I’ll have to read into that more, but TIL!
Banning books is not the answer