Tiberius Posted April 6, 2022 Posted April 6, 2022 CHICAGO —The American Library Association (ALA) kicks off National Library Week with the release of its State of America's Libraries Report, highlighting the challenges U.S. libraries faced in the second year of the pandemic – as well as the ways they innovated to meet the needs of their communities. Library staff in every state faced an unprecedented number of attempts to ban books. ALA’s Office for Intellectual Freedom tracked 729 challenges to library, school and university materials and services in 2021, resulting in more than 1,597 individual book challenges or removals. Most targeted books were by or about Black or LGBTQIA+ persons. “The 729 challenges tracked by ALA represent the highest number of attempted book bans since we began compiling these lists 20 years ago,” said ALA President Patricia “Patty” Wong. “We support individual parents' choices concerning their child's reading and believe that parents should not have those choices dictated by others. Young people need to have access to a variety of books from which they can learn about different perspectives. So, despite this organized effort to ban books, libraries remain ready to do what we always have: make knowledge and ideas available so people are free to choose what to read.” Below are the Top 10 Most Challenged Books of 2021: “Gender *****,” by Maia Kobabe Reasons: Banned, challenged, and restricted for LGBTQIA+ content and because it was considered to have sexually explicit images. “Lawn Boy,” by Jonathan Evison Reasons: Banned and challenged for LGBTQIA+ content and because it was considered to be sexually explicit. “All Boys Aren’t Blue,” by George M. Johnson Reasons: Banned and challenged for LGBTQIA+ content, profanity, and because it was considered to be sexually explicit. https://www.ala.org/news/press-releases/2022/04/national-library-week-kicks-state-america-s-libraries-report-annual-top-10
BillsFanNC Posted April 8, 2022 Author Posted April 8, 2022 Don't worry. They'll never come for the people or outlets that I agree with... Friggin morons. 1
B-Man Posted April 8, 2022 Posted April 8, 2022 (edited) I like a Billionaire with a sense of humor. Edited April 8, 2022 by B-Man 1 1
B-Man Posted April 8, 2022 Posted April 8, 2022 Truth Big Media and Big Tech got away with censoring The Post — and me New York Post, by John Stossel https://nypost.com/2022/04/07/big-media-and-big-tech-got-away-with-censoring-the-new-york-post/
BillsFanNC Posted April 8, 2022 Author Posted April 8, 2022 35 minutes ago, B-Man said: Always projection. Always. 1
B-Man Posted April 11, 2022 Posted April 11, 2022 MORE: THE BOARD WANTED HIM TO SHUT UP: Elon Musk Is NOT Joining the Twitter Board After All, and That’s Good News. https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/robert-spencer/2022/04/11/elon-musk-is-not-joining-the-twitter-board-after-all-and-thats-good-news-n1588698
Doc Posted April 11, 2022 Posted April 11, 2022 He's going to try and get a majority control of the company. Do it, Elon! 1
Big Blitz Posted April 11, 2022 Posted April 11, 2022 “Elon Musk not taking a board seat is bullish for free speech coming back to Twitter. The board seat was a proposed tactic by Twitter’s current execs & board to curb his influence (limiting his maximum shares to 14.9%). Musk can now pursue a hostile takeover if he so chooses. He acquired 9% of company shares from Feb to April. Will he get to 18% by June? Next SEC filing should be interesting to see! IMO this process is already happening. Shareholders don’t care about the woke stuff. And given Elon’s record of making shareholders rich, wouldn’t be surprised to see SJW panic in Twitter exec world right now.” What a wonderful thought. In a similar vein, the managing editor of New York Focus, Peter Sterne, tweeted: “Elon joining Twitter’s board was contingent on him agreeing not to buy more than 15% of Twitter. Now he’s not joining the board. So does that mean he can he [sic] buy as much of Twitter’s outstanding stock as he wants?” We can only hope.
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