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#censorship

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Rowan Brad Quni

@paninid fast forward to the present and scientists who barely study #philosophy label #metaphysics as #pseudoscience (forgetting what #PhD means), torment #logic for the benefit of "elegant" #math equations (e.g. antimatter, dark #matter), and design #AI #systems that weaponize #ethics as justification for #information #censorship (#ChatGPT "knows" but refuses to answer how to a hot wire a car or commit murder while claiming no #opinion, ignorant that words and actions are different)

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A. Rivera

In follow up, in case you wondered what they removed. I'd say for some #libraries this is a good collection development tool. And yes, I saved a copy for myself.

> List of Books Removed from USNA Library
navy.mil/Press-Office/Press-Re (link offers a PDF of the list)

#books #reading #censorship #BannedBooks #USNA #USNavy #USGovernment #GovDocs #libraries #bookstodon

@bookstodon
@librarians

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Rev.Hans@SacredBodies.ca :mstdnca:

@Remittancegirl Once upon a time I wrote my thesis on this topic, how to tell the truth of lived experience in conditions of censorship. At that time my focus was on Latin American dictatorships in the 1970s & 80s. Then on East Central Europe, 1945-89. Reagan, not a president I like to quote, famously called on the USSR to “take down” the Berlin Wall. Literally & figuratively. Now a different US president is intent on building a wall against knowing the truth. Ugh.
#uspoli #censorship

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Levka

#education #censorship #DEI #CRT #Texas #SchoolBoards

"In 2022, conservative groups celebrated a 'great victory' over 'wokeified' curriculum when the Texas State Board of Education squashed proposed social studies requirements for schools that included teaching kindergartners how Rosa Parks and Cesar Chavez 'advocated for positive change.'

Another win came a year later as the state board rejected several textbooks that some Republicans argued could promote a 'radical environmental agenda' because they linked climate change to human behavior or presented what conservatives perceived to be a negative portrayal of fossil fuels.

By the time the state board approved science and career-focused textbooks for use in Texas classrooms at the end of 2023, it appeared to be comfortably in sync with conservatives who had won control of local school boards across the state in recent years.

But the Republican-led state education board had not gone far enough for the conservative majority on the school board for Texas’ third-largest school district.

At the tail end of a school board meeting in May of last year, Natalie Blasingame, a board member in suburban Houston’s Cypress-Fairbanks Independent School District, proposed stripping more than a dozen chapters from five textbooks that had been approved by the state board and were recommended by a district committee of teachers and staffers.

The chapters, Blasingame said, were inappropriate for students because they discussed 'vaccines and polio,' touched on 'topics of depopulation,' had 'an agenda out of the United Nations' and included 'a perspective that humans are bad.'

In a less-publicized move, Blasingame, a former bilingual educator, proposed omitting several chapters from a textbook for aspiring educators titled 'Teaching.' One of those chapters focuses on how to understand and educate diverse learners and states that it 'is up to schools and teachers to help every student feel comfortable, accepted and valued,' and that 'when schools view diversity as a positive force, it can enhance learning and prepare students to work effectively in a diverse society.'"

propublica.org/article/texas-c

ProPublicaA Texas School Board Cut State-Approved Textbook Chapters About Diversity. A Board Member Says Material Violated the Law
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William Lindsey :toad:

"President Trump’s team is selectively stripping away the public record, reconstructing his preferred vision of America in the negative space of purged history, archivists and historians said. As data and resources are deleted or altered, something foundational is also at risk: Americans’ ability to access and evaluate their past, and with it, their already shaky trust in facts."

~ Tiffany Hsu

#Trump #education #history #whitewashing #censorship
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nytimes.com/2025/04/05/technol

The head of the National Archives, which has been described as “the custodian of America’s collective memory,” was fired by President Trump in February.
The New York Times · The White House Frames the Past by Erasing Parts of ItBy Tiffany Hsu
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William Lindsey :toad:

Robert P. Jones reports that his book White Too Long has been removed from holdings of the prestigious library of the US Naval Academy. He writes:

"This defilement of a respected academic institution by those who are waging an outright assault on higher education is, disturbingly, the goal. Honor and integrity are inconvenient stumbling blocks on the road to absolute power."

#Trump #Hegseth #BookBans #libraries #education #history #whitewashing #censorship
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whitetoolong.net/p/my-book-whi

White Too Long by Robert P. Jones · My Book, "White Too Long," Banned from US Naval AcademyBy Robert P. Jones
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petersuber

Update. "#SciOp is part of Safeguarding Research & Culture (#SRC). The bits must flow: let us resurrect the ancient art of #Bittorrent to ensure that our cultural, intellectual and scientific heritage exists in multiple copies, in multiple places, and that no single entity or group of entities can make it all disappear."
sciop.net/

sciop.netSciOp - Public Information PreservationPreserving Public Information
#Censorship#DefendResearch#OpenSource
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Mark

Dismiss the ‘let’s ban it’ mindset

I’m not suggesting that the #Scottish govt ever thought of an early-morning swoop by #Scotland’s finest on the offices of #Shetland #Fishermen’s Association

A recent revelation that, prior to a meeting with us and our members, FM John #Swinney was told to avoid using the phrase “spatial squeeze” demonstrates that the let’s ban it mindset swirls around the corridors of St Andrew’s House

shetlandtimes.co.uk/2025/04/05

The Shetland Times · COMMENT: Dismiss the 'let's ban it' mindset - The Shetland TimesSadly, we live in censorious times, when tolerance for differing viewpoints, activities, words even, is sometimes non-existent.
#fishing#food#ban
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