> The UN #Humanitarian Coordinator for #Palestine, Jamie McGoldrick, has affirmed that Israel added insulin pens for children to the list of #prohibited items that are not allowed into the besieged and war-torn Gaza Strip.
FLORIDA BANS PSYCHOLOGY
About 27,000 FL teenagers took AP psych last year. But it looks like the class won't be an option this year. #Florida#bans AP #psychology over gender identity, sexual orientation lessons, College Board says.
There’s a quote in this article on the heroes and heroines of children’s #books we should remember in these days of #censorship & #bans:
“Books are a safe place for children to explore ideas and think about how they would respond to dangerous or exciting situations—and through classic characters they can live out all sorts of potential lives.” https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20230724-what-our-childhood-heroes-teach-us
Like I'm shure once big names got their #Minecraft#Streams repeatedly sniped by #Griefers, people like #Jeb did not only get a #BlankCheque to stop them but basically got ordered to do so NOW!
They can be fecking glad they only got #DenyList|ed by Minecraft Servers that use #Mojang's #BlockList and not have their entire #Microsoft Account locked down.
So after wading into the debate yesterday based on an article written by @ploum (and posted by @dangillmor), and the larger #fedipact controversy, I decided to share a slightly more coherent version of my thoughts. I still think unnecessary #gatekeeping and preemptive #bans suck and will cause a helluva lot more damage to the protocol than Meta likely will, but as always, hope others who differ in their thoughts will engage in some healthy debate, and not just resort to calling me a troll for having a different opinion than them.
Book banning in the US is an organized campaign by a small minority.
' The majority of the 1,000-plus book challenges analyzed by The Post were filed by just 11 people.
Each of these people brought 10 or more challenges against books in their school district; one man filed 92 challenges. Together, these serial filers constituted 6% of all book challengers — but were responsible for 60% of all filings. '