Parents in a school district near Jacksonville, Florida, are trying to remove two frequently challenged books from the Yulee Middle School’s library. According to the parents, books TTYL and its sequel TTFN– two novels in Lauren Myracle’s popular Internet Girls series– are inappropriate for their Middle School children. Florida’s Nassau […]
A simple idea is having an extraordinary impact on literacy and local communities: take a book, leave a book. Students walk up, open the door of a dollhouse-sized wooden box, and take a book. They can keep it, return it, or replace it with one which they have already enjoyed, […]
Oh, the irony. Staff of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival are not allowed to shop at a local bookstore because of the store’s banned books display. http://www.mailtribune.com/article/20160805/NEWS/160809755/-1/archive
“What is history, but a fable agreed upon”- Napoleon
The Nadine Gordimer test The Censor Board’s decision to block access to an important movie on contemporary issues about India once again points towards its complicity with the Indian nanny state that tells us what to eat, what to see, what to wear, who to love, when to marry, who […]
There is a growing epidemic among the youth of America. It starts during the grade-school years, when parents curtail the development of critical thinking and free will in their children, conditioning them to believe that the world does and will always coddle their fragile sense of self. They are taught […]
Cars, trucks, airplanes, guns, knives and computers are not supposed to be used in a criminal act; yet, every day they are. Last week, a terrorist in Nice, France, managed to kill more people with a truck than has any single mass shooter. Yet, no one is calling for a […]
Google once threatened the former publisher of the Banned Books Awareness and Reading for Knowledge column. When they stood by me and refused to censor my article, Google responded by revoking the newspaper’s ad revenue capability. Now they have erased someone’s 14 years worth of writing for “violation of the […]
There is responsible logic in the Facebook policy regarding its Facebook Live feature. The guidelines make sense and are fair. As George Carlin once said, words [and now images] are neutral. They’re harmless. It is the context that makes them positive or negative. Read On and Share the Knowledge: http://tech.firstpost.com/news-analysis/facebook-clarifies-censorship-issues-on-live-videos-context-and-degree-is-everything-324487.html
Upholding an author’s right to write unhindered under the freedom of speech enshrined in Article 19 (1) (a) of the Indian Constitution, the First Bench of the Madras High Court comprising Chief Justice S.K. Kaul and Justice Pushpa Sathyanarayana said that the Tamil Nadu government’s attempt to gag Perumal Murugan, […]
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