#banned
#DragQueens shamefully #banned from performing at the #BayPrideofPanamaCity
When #drag was #removed from the #event, it should have been #canceled or #postponed.”
— You can't have real #Pride when any part of our community is left standing out in the cold.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Florida #Drag #DragQueens #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Transphobia #ThePartyOfHate
A New #Prison Policy Blocks #Incarcerated #Journalists and #Artists From #Publishing Their Work
https://nysfocus.com/2023/06/06/doccs-prison-blocks-journalism-artists-creative-work
#NewYork #prisons may have effectively #banned #journalism #behindbars.
A person has filed a complaint against the #Book of Mormon in the same Utah #school district which recently #banned #censored the Bible for lower grades. The new complaint “echoes” the original one, which “dripped with sarcasm.” Many other insights in article. #FirstAmendment #FreeSpeech #FreePress #FreedomToRead https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/04/us/utah-bible-book-ban.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
The #Bible Officially #Banned in #Utah #SchoolDistrict
https://bookriot.com/davis-school-district-bans-bible/
https://kutv.com/news/crisis-in-the-classroom/decision-over-bible-removal-in-davis-school-district-challenged-sparks-online-debate-book-of-mormon-king-james-version-legislation-ken-ivory
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/bible-ban-utah-school-district-elementary-middle-complaint-sex-book/
https://le.utah.gov/xcode/Title76/Chapter10/76-10-S1227.html#:~:text=Indecent%20public%20displays%20%2D%2D%20Definitions.,-(1)&text=fondling%20or%20other%20erotic%20touching%20of%20the%20human%20buttock%20or%20female%20breast.
#christian #christianity #LDS #mormons #sexuality #rape #incest #thebible #NT
In an attempt to protest against Reddit's recent API pricing, various subreddits have joined hands for a digital protest. These subreddits will be going dark later this month for a period of 48 hours. #Reddit #3rdParty #Banned https://www.neowin.net/news/reddit-to-go-dark-on-june-12-subreddits-protest-against-probable-death-of-third-party-apps/
'Terrifying': Massachusetts man banned from Facebook after sharing cryptic letter about democracy's demise
#FactCheck: Was The #Bible #Banned by #School District For Being #Pornographic?
https://www.newsweek.com/fact-check-was-bible-banned-school-district-being-pornographic-1804079
The Davis School District in southern Utah has pulled the Bible from elementary and middle schools after a complaint from a parent who included eight pages of obscene quotes.
#Bible #pulled #from #elementary & #middle #schools #because it's #disgusting #violence #genital #mutilation #murder #patricide #sex #slavery #banned #books
https://www.ksl.com/article/50657730/davis-district-pulls-bible-from-elementaries-junior-highs-due-to-vulgarity-or-violence
#RonDeSantis said that not ‘a single #book’ was #banned in #Florida. Districts have removed dozens.
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2023/may/31/ron-desantis/ron-desantis-said-that-not-a-single-book-was-banne/
Just started my Tuesday/Thursday #livestream over at https://www.joystick.tv/u/toplesstopics ! Today I'll be reaching into the annals of retro #ToplessTopics uploads to re-edit #patriarchy-friendly versions of old videos (that is to say, with a properly demure Handmaid's Tale cowl and bonnet over my heinous female body) to be reuploaded to #mainstreamMedia like #youtube, #tiktok, #instagram, etc! Here's hoping I don't get any fresh #banned #communityGuidelines strikes before vidcon in three weeks!
Rumble by Link Wray “remains to this day the first and only instrumental song to ever banned from the airwaves.”
https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/link-wray-rumble-only-instrumental-track-to-ever-be-banned/
“The law in question, which was signed by governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders on March 31 and is set to take effect on August 1, removes an exemption from prosecution for school and public libraries and would empower virtually anyone to challenge the appropriateness of library materials in Arkansas. Library staff found to have “knowingly” distributed or facilitating the distribution of allegedly obscene material to a minor—defined as anyone under 18—would be open to a potential felony charge.”
#Blocked! #French #minister #threatens to #ban #Twitter if it doesn’t follow #EU #rules.
“Twitter, if it repeatedly doesn’t follow our rules, will be #banned from the #EU,” said #France’s #digitalminister, #JeanNoëlBarrot.
— Yes please!
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #EuropeanUnion #France #SocialMedia #Twitter #Ban
#Lex #banned me again. This is the 4th time they pull that shit.
Here's an article I wrote on their trigger happy moderation:
https://medium.com/face-first-into-bdsm/the-moderation-on-lex-is-trigger-happy-839aa127bac9
The “Gorman saga” or the “ #poem hoax,” as presidential candidate DeSantis calls it, in the state of Florida, where no #book is “ #banned,” or #censored, as DeSantis says; and what it says about the coming campaign. #FirstAmendment #FreedomToRead #rhetoric #language — May I point out that Republicans in North Carolina objected to the use of the #word “ban” earlier this month. Coincidence or …..?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/05/26/desantis-amanda-gorman-poem-book-bans/
#British #trans #women #banned from #female #category in #BritishCycling #competitions.
#Sponsors should #boycott sponsoring #Cycling events hosted by #BritishCycling until it changes its #transphobic #policy
https://www.itv.com/news/2023-05-26/british-trans-women-banned-from-female-cycling-competitions
#EmilyBridges calls #BritishCycling a "#FailedOrganisation", says #trans #woman have been "#banned" as new '#Open' #category announced.
The open category is transphobic way to deny the #womanhood of #trans #women. It "#others" them and subjects them to #hate and #bigotry.
https://road.cc/content/news/emily-bridges-slams-british-cycling-new-transgender-policy-301485
Despite the main character's anger and trauma surrounding the police, the story openly acknowledged that guns and violence were pervasive in her neighborhood, presented the main character's uncle as a police detective and an upstanding person, and even ended by celebrating an act of "snitching".
I opened the book thinking that it may have a one-sided, politicized message, but actually found it to have a moderate "both-side" treatment of potentially divisive issues. The only clear advocacy I read was right at the end when the author closes by preaching the need to hold police accountable for violence, and linked the fictional victim to several real Black men who had been killed by police while unarmed.
I recently finished reading "The Hate U Give" after seeing it repeatedly on the Banned Books lists from the ALA. My review isn't really needed, but here it goes...
I think "The Hate U Give" is a good young adult novel and completely appropriate for high-schoolers. When I finished it, I had a hard time imagining what would lead to it being banned.
https://www.ala.org/advocacy/bbooks/frequentlychallengedbooks/top10/archive
#books #banned #education
so far I've been happy on @eldritch.cafe (even though I don't speak French, the people and mods on here have been decent, and the 5000 character limit on posts is much appreciated.) but as you'd expect from a smaller instance, I get very few or no results for many tags that are important to me, like #contentCreator #youtube #twitch #livestream #videoInterview #vlogger #videoEssayist #socialCommentary and many similar tags.
so it might be useful for me to try out another, more content creator-inclusive server sometime. but I'm not sure there's really a perfect fit out there.
for one thing, character count is important to me, and so many instances (I presume founded by Twitter users) leave theirs at the default 500, which I find stifling. even 1000 is frequently irritating, when I've gotten used to 5000. I also don't understand the appeal of tight character limits, since people just then write out long, rambling threads of posts, that can easily be taken out of context to warp their whole argument and leave them rife for misinterpretation (see: "quote tweeting")
beyond that, while my videos focus on so many #progressive causes I care about, like #feminism #lgbtq #queer #equalRights #genderdiscrimination #genderEquality #houselessness #mentalHealthcare #transRights #racialEquality and many other #leftwing #USpolitics, because I do my videos topless, there are basically no platforms I can host my content until I can somehow convince sponsors to pay me so I can set up my own hosting-- @tio is kind enough to let me post my uncensored videos to his #peertube server, but there's no real searchability within peertube (as evinced by how many people suggest I post my content to peertube, which I already have been for years...) and putting censored videos of my videos on mainstream platforms that tell people to visit my website to see my uncensored videos doesn't work well, both because of how often my content gets #banned even when it's fully censored (thanks, haters), and because many people are a little, well... 😏 I can only say "follow the link written on the video" (because I'll get banned for "linking to porn" if I put a clickable link in my video description or social media post) so many times.
back to switching instances, the main reason I picked Eldritch Cafe several years ago is because, being French, they don't have the same blatantly misogynistic puritanical views towards "female nipples" being unacceptable viewing outside of explicit sexual situations. they just want them placed under a content warning, as you'd expect on basically every server. but alas, like I said, there just aren't really any other content creators that I've found on here, especially not vloggers/social commentary/video essayists like me (idk what the distinction is, really). that's why it might make more sense for me to move instances, much as I've come to feel comfortable here.
but then the crux of the problem arises--I am, first and foremost, a #toplessequality activist. I want "the same rights for 'female looking nipples' that 'male looking nipples' get." while I was raised a nudist, and for a little while there I did a fair amount of content catering to nudists (talking about #nudism / #naturism , being fully naked instead of just topless, etc...) but I've really been finding the urge to distance myself from nudists lately, for reasons I go into detail here: https://www.toplesstopics.org/nomorenudism/ the tl;dr version is that just talking about nudism all the time is boring to me, and I resent how so many of the (straight cis male) nudists who would exchange my videos amongst themselves would skim right past my whole "fight for gender equality" and just use me as a (more culturally appealing than yet more straight white cis male) nudist figurehead. a lot of nudists are also very anti-sex worker, which goes against my morals- I fully believe that #sexWorkIsWork, and any #consensual #sexWork is fine by me.
what I resent is that, when it comes to mainstream platforms, only being allowed to post my uncensored female nipples on platforms that allow explicit sexual material. I am NOT a sex worker, I DO NOT do anything actually sexual in my videos-- I have interviews with #adultFilm actors, #camgirls, #kink educators, etc, but it's discussion only, we don't DO anything sexual, or go into graphic detail about sexual acts. but because of puritanical American society, the only places I can simply be topless-while-female is on places like Onlyfans, Mewe and Joystick.tv - - places already overflowing with porn.
Soo...turns out our new music video just got banned from a very large website for "Violence and Disturbing Images".
Um, okay. The song is literally titled, CRIME SCENE. Anyway, take a listen while we fight the ban.
#Banned in the #USA: State Laws Supercharge #Book Suppression in #Schools
https://pen.org/report/banned-in-the-usa-state-laws-supercharge-book-suppression-in-schools/
I've decided today's #livestream is gonna test the limits of #twitch #censorship by taking place in our #hotTub - since Twitch theoretically started allowing swimsuits on stream over a year ago (which of course allows topless "male-looking nipples" but not "female looking nipples" like everywhere else in or oriented towards this #puritanical #sexist #misgynist PoS country #America) I thought it'd be fun to do a #toplessTopics AMA (#askMeAnything) while wearing a bikini in our backyard hot tub. of course, given how topless Topics is #banned to a degree that no other #contentcreator is, I'll probably get #suspended yet again despite not breaking #CommunityGuidelines - but hey, that just gives me more screenshots for my banned page! https://www.toplesstopics.org/banned
anyway think of some AMA questions for me to answer on today's livestream, every Tuesday and Thursday 12-3 pm pst at https://www.twitch.tv/cerigotgame and I'll answer them live! they can really be AMA, but if they're sexual, I'll have to be super vague in how I answer. also, I'll think less of you as a person, for being a 🍆 for 🧠s instead of respectful. but go ahead and try I guess 🤷🏽♀️
see you all in two hours!
I highly recommend CALL US WHAT WE CARRY by Amanda Gorman.
my review:
Who will give voice, texture, and meaning to our lives? Amanda Gorman steps into this much-needed space. She starts her process by mapping out where we are. She asserts that our recent experiences are not a shapeless void, but rather a kind of murkiness with ragged borders, one which we've had to navigate at full-speed.
Gorman uses accessible everyday speech to convey the remarkable and to reveal what is hidden. Her poetry isn't just contemporary, but achingly present.
This poetry isn't simply a conduit for people and their experiences, but it's a stand-in for them. We are the poetry, and the poetry is us, when we burst out of our confines to become more than we are. Being is static. Becoming requires action. Even generational trauma, coded into our bones, persists, not because we've failed to leave it behind, but because we've failed to create a fully collective remembrance.
#Banned [txt]
The poem that Amanda Gorman
performed now being banned in a Florida school
after just 1 parent complained it was
about hatred and indoctrination.
Now I share the 723 word TRANSCRIPT:
(so you can judge for yourself)
When day comes we ask ourselves,
where can we find light in this never-ending shade?
The loss we carry,
a sea we must wade
We’ve braved the belly of the beast
We’ve learned that quiet isn’t always peace
And the norms and notions
of what just is
Isn’t always just-ice
And yet the dawn is ours
before we knew it
Somehow we do it
Somehow we’ve weathered and witnessed
a nation that isn’t broken
but simply unfinished
We the successors of a country and a time
Where a skinny Black girl
descended from slaves and raised by a single mother
can dream of becoming president
only to find herself reciting for one
And yes we are far from polished
far from pristine
but that doesn’t mean we are
striving to form a union that is perfect
We are striving to forge a union with purpose
To compose a country committed to all cultures, colors, characters and
conditions of man
And so we lift our gazes not to what stands between us
but what stands before us
We close the divide because we know, to put our future first,
we must first put our differences aside
We lay down our arms
so we can reach out our arms
to one another
We seek harm to none and harmony for all
Let the globe, if nothing else, say this is true:
That even as we grieved, we grew
That even as we hurt, we hoped
That even as we tired, we tried
That we’ll forever be tied together, victorious
Not because we will never again know defeat
but because we will never again sow division
Scripture tells us to envision
that everyone shall sit under their own vine and fig tree
And no one shall make them afraid
If we’re to live up to our own time
Then victory won’t lie in the blade
But in all the bridges we’ve made
That is the promised glade
The hill we climb
If only we dare
It’s because being American is more than a pride we inherit,
it’s the past we step into
and how we repair it
We’ve seen a force that would shatter our nation
rather than share it
Would destroy our country if it meant delaying democracy
And this effort very nearly succeeded
But while democracy can be periodically delayed
it can never be permanently defeated
In this truth
in this faith we trust
For while we have our eyes on the future
history has its eyes on us
This is the era of just redemption
We feared at its inception
We did not feel prepared to be the heirs
of such a terrifying hour
but within it we found the power
to author a new chapter
To offer hope and laughter to ourselves
So while once we asked,
how could we possibly prevail over catastrophe?
Now we assert
How could catastrophe possibly prevail over us?
We will not march back to what was
but move to what shall be
A country that is bruised but whole,
benevolent but bold,
fierce and free
We will not be turned around
or interrupted by intimidation
because we know our inaction and inertia
will be the inheritance of the next generation
Our blunders become their burdens
But one thing is certain:
If we merge mercy with might,
and might with right,
then love becomes our legacy
and change our children’s birthright
So let us leave behind a country
better than the one we were left with
Every breath from my bronze-pounded chest,
we will raise this wounded world into a wondrous one
We will rise from the gold-limbed hills of the west,
we will rise from the windswept northeast
where our forefathers first realized revolution
We will rise from the lake-rimmed cities of the midwestern states,
we will rise from the sunbaked south
We will rebuild, reconcile and recover
and every known nook of our nation and
every corner called our country,
our people diverse and beautiful will emerge,
battered and beautiful
When day comes we step out of the shade,
aflame and unafraid
The new dawn blooms as we free it
For there is always light,
IF ONLY WE'RE BRAVE ENOUGH TO SEE IT
IF ONLY WE'RE BRAVE ENOUGH TO BE IT
hastily drawn #webcomic page once again mocking #patreon #tiktok #twitch etc for their #censorship #banned policies towards a photo or video of a woman without a shirt (or wearing a strapless dress) cut off at the shoulders as "implied nudity," but not a woman wearing a teeny tiny bikini and g-string. and of course, not banning topless people who "look male," even with full nipples fully on display. make it make sense 🙃 #feminism #sexism #genderEquality
The poem that Amanda Gorman
performed
is now being banned in a Florida school
after just 1 parent complained it was
about hatred and indoctrination.
Now I share the 723 word transcript:
When day comes we ask ourselves,
where can we find light in this never-ending shade?
The loss we carry,
a sea we must wade
We’ve braved the belly of the beast
We’ve learned that quiet isn’t always peace
And the norms and notions
of what just is
Isn’t always just-ice
And yet the dawn is ours
before we knew it
Somehow we do it
Somehow we’ve weathered and witnessed
a nation that isn’t broken
but simply unfinished
We the successors of a country and a time
Where a skinny Black girl
descended from slaves and raised by a single mother
can dream of becoming president
only to find herself reciting for one
And yes we are far from polished
far from pristine
but that doesn’t mean we are
striving to form a union that is perfect
We are striving to forge a union with purpose
To compose a country committed to all cultures, colors, characters and
conditions of man
And so we lift our gazes not to what stands between us
but what stands before us
We close the divide because we know, to put our future first,
we must first put our differences aside
We lay down our arms
so we can reach out our arms
to one another
We seek harm to none and harmony for all
Let the globe, if nothing else, say this is true:
That even as we grieved, we grew
That even as we hurt, we hoped
That even as we tired, we tried
That we’ll forever be tied together, victorious
Not because we will never again know defeat
but because we will never again sow division
Scripture tells us to envision
that everyone shall sit under their own vine and fig tree
And no one shall make them afraid
If we’re to live up to our own time
Then victory won’t lie in the blade
But in all the bridges we’ve made
That is the promised glade
The hill we climb
If only we dare
It’s because being American is more than a pride we inherit,
it’s the past we step into
and how we repair it
We’ve seen a force that would shatter our nation
rather than share it
Would destroy our country if it meant delaying democracy
And this effort very nearly succeeded
But while democracy can be periodically delayed
it can never be permanently defeated
In this truth
in this faith we trust
For while we have our eyes on the future
history has its eyes on us
This is the era of just redemption
We feared at its inception
We did not feel prepared to be the heirs
of such a terrifying hour
but within it we found the power
to author a new chapter
To offer hope and laughter to ourselves
So while once we asked,
how could we possibly prevail over catastrophe?
Now we assert
How could catastrophe possibly prevail over us?
We will not march back to what was
but move to what shall be
A country that is bruised but whole,
benevolent but bold,
fierce and free
We will not be turned around
or interrupted by intimidation
because we know our inaction and inertia
will be the inheritance of the next generation
Our blunders become their burdens
But one thing is certain:
If we merge mercy with might,
and might with right,
then love becomes our legacy
and change our children’s birthright
So let us leave behind a country
better than the one we were left with
Every breath from my bronze-pounded chest,
we will raise this wounded world into a wondrous one
We will rise from the gold-limbed hills of the west,
we will rise from the windswept northeast
where our forefathers first realized revolution
We will rise from the lake-rimmed cities of the midwestern states,
we will rise from the sunbaked south
We will rebuild, reconcile and recover
and every known nook of our nation and
every corner called our country,
our people diverse and beautiful will emerge,
battered and beautiful
When day comes we step out of the shade,
aflame and unafraid
The new dawn blooms as we free it
For there is always light,
if only we’re brave enough to see it
If only we’re brave enough to be it
#Manitoba #Premier #HeatherStefanson remains #banned from #speaking at #Pride #rally this year, but plans to march.
Stefanson added this will be the first #Pride #parade she has marched in.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Canada #Manitoba #Pride #PrideMonth
https://winnipeg.ctvnews.ca/premier-stefanson-remains-banned-from-speaking-at-pride-rally-1.6409777
I know those of you suggesting peertube mean well, but it's just very frustrating to have many tactics to avoid censorship that I've already tried many times over the years (see: daily motion, "just mark your videos as educational/age restricted," list your profile as male, etc...) when I can assure you, I've TRIED them all, and they DON'T WORK.
they may work for others, but those others apparently don't have a hater army that follow them platform to platform, mass-false-flagging everything they post. I have hundreds of screenshots demonstrating how my content is #banned to a degree that no one else is at https://www.toplesstopics.org/banned and I have hundreds more I haven't uploaded yet. there's simply no justice or fairness in it--ALL the mainstream platforms ban me over and over again for "reasons" not applied to anyone else, and when I use obscure platforms like mastodon and peertube, even users ALREADY ON PEERTUBE don't see my videos on there, which perfectly illustrates why that's not a solution, either 🙃
#PosieParker temporarily #banned from #YouTube for #hatespeech #violation.
— Every single #video she posts is a #hatespeech #violation. #Socialmedia needs to institute a #3StrikesRule for spreading #hate via their #platforms. Not 3,000.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #UK #SocialMedia #Youtube #TERFS #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Transphobia #TERFIsland #TERFFails #NoPlatformForHate
https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/20/posie-parker-youtube-ban-kellie-jay-keen/
From 18 May: Public Libraries Deserve Better Than This - As book bans continue to make headlines across the country, libraries are at the forefront of the f... https://www.themarysue.com/public-libraries-deserve-better-than-this/ #american-library-association #banned-books #books #libraries
#nowwatching 🍿🔪
👇👇
The Slayer (1982)
#horror #horrormovie #videonasty #banned #horrorfam #tubi
In the last two months, six states have passed laws that would mandate prison sentences for school #librarians who keep #banned or #censored books on their shelves: a Washington Post analysis. #FirstAmendment #FreeSpeech #FreePress #FreedomToRead
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2023/05/18/school-librarians-jailed-banned-books/
A lawsuit, filed by Penguin Random House, five authors, two parents of children affected by the bans, and the non-profit group PEN America, alleges that the Escambia County school board #banned and restricted #books "based on their disagreement with the ideas expressed in those books."
In so doing, the school board has "prescribed an orthodoxy of opinion that #violates the #First and #Fourteenth #Amendments."
“In Escambia County, state censors are spiriting books off shelves in a deliberate attempt to suppress diverse voices. In a nation built on free speech, this cannot stand,” Suzanne Nossel, the CEO of PEN America, said. “The law demands that the Escambia County School District put removed or restricted books back on library shelves where they belong.”
https://popular.info/p/update-new-federal-lawsuit-says-florida
@element @amatecha @matrix @liaizon @maxschrems @noybeu
Considering how #CloudAct and other #Cyberfacist laws work, they'll already have integrated #Govware #backdoors.
Just like #Mattermost did.
Cuz otherwise both would not only be #banned in #KSA, #PRC & #Russia but also being proactively filtered and blocked by their #InternetCensorship systems.
Marketing banned books with what they were banned for, genius! 😂
@bookstodon @boostodon @bookbubble @books
#Reading #Readers
#Banned #Books
#ReadingCommunity #Bookwyrm #Bookstodon #BookLove #Book #BoostingIsSharing
It has been 70 years since the #LavenderScare & our #political #leaders are still after us.
In the 1950s, #LGBTQ+ people were accused of #working with #Russia and #banned from #government jobs. Now, #trans #people are the new #Scapegoats
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQIA #History #RepublicanParty #Fascism #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Homophobia #Transphobia #ThePartyOfHate.
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2023/05/it-has-been-70-years-since-the-lavender-scare-our-political-leaders-are-still-after-us/
Dishonoring the girls who came forward to tell their stories of being sold into slavery: that’s what a #book #ban does. From the author of one of the most #banned books in schools. #censorship #FirstAmendment https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/07/opinion/sexual-assualt-book-ban.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
So #tiktok got right to show #eurovision content. Thought they where #banned from many #countries
#Banned #trans #lawmaker Rep. #ZooeyZephyr #sues #state of #Montana
The #lawsuit, which Zephyr filed with the #ACLUofMontana and several of her #constituents, also seeks a temporary restrainin gorder (#TRO) that would #bar #Republican #lawmakers from taking away her #legislative #privileges until a #court can settle the issue.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQIA #Montana #RepublicanParty #Fascism #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Transphobia #ThePartyOfHate
https://www.semafor.com/article/05/01/2023/banned-montana-rep-zooey-zephyr-sues-house-speaker
I managed to have myself temporarily banned from a #subreddit after trying to post a YouTube video that doesn't quite meet the fairly specific rules for the subreddit.
It's probably my fault for not reading the rules closely enough. My kids think this is hilarious. 😂
"It's not your imagination, and it's not fearmongering: Books, and our free and ready access to them, are under attack in the U.S."
The American Library Association today released its list of the 13 most banned books in 2022.
USA Today reports: https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/books/2023/04/24/most-banned-books-2022-list-gender-queer-the-bluest-eye/11715584002/
Florida's #bookbanning:
"Among books that are no longer available to students in Clay County because of this action are critically-acclaimed and award-winning novels, including A Fault In Our Stars, The Handmaid's Tale, and Story of a Girl."
Also #banned Julian is a Mermaid and Ready Player One.
Why not the Bible? That's violent and obscene. Nevermind, smart people who actually read know why not. #bookstodon #books #Florida
Tomorrow, April 24, is 'Right to Read Day'. The American Library Association will publish a new list of the most frequently challenged books of 2022. 3/3
https://uniteagainstbookbans.org/right-to-read-day/
#books #libraries #banned
See the link below for the top 10 frequently challenged books in the USA for each year (from the American Library Association). "The Hate U Give" made the list 4 of 5 years since it was published in 2017. 2/
#banned #books #libraries
https://www.ala.org/advocacy/bbooks/frequentlychallengedbooks/top10
In recognition of "right to read day" (tomorrow, Apr 24), I'd like to announce that the DeKalb County libraries currently have 20 copies of "The Hate U Give" available for you to reserve. 1/
https://dekalb.polarislibrary.com/polaris/search/title.aspx?ctx=22.1033.0.0.6&pos=3&cn=266420
#banned #books #racism #libraries
Good job Aussie B&N!
In case anyone’s interested, the American #Library Association tracks “banned and challenged” books in the US, listing the most #banned #books in the nation by year, and has determined that last year saw a record-high number of #book bannings: https://www.ala.org/advocacy/bbooks They also have a few ideas on how to fight back: https://uniteagainstbookbans.org/toolkit/
#ElonMusk’s #Twitter No Longer Shields #Transgender #People from #abuse
It’s now okay to #deadname and #misgender #trans #people on the #SocialMedia #app, thanks to the #freespeechabsolutist who #banned #people for #insulting him.
https://www.advocate.com/business/twitter-elon-musk-transgender-abuse
#Trans #students could be #banned from #single-#sex #schools under #leaked #Tory #guidance
Under the guidance from the Department for Education, #schools and #headteachers will be legally #protected if they choose to #reject a #trans #girl from joining an #allgirlsschool or a #trans #boy from joining an #allboysschool.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQIA #UK #Tories #Education #Hate #Bigotry #Discrimination #Transphobia
https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/04/18/trans-single-sex-schools-gudiance-rishi-sunak/
Llano County’s three #libraries in Texas will remain open but commissioners blame #FreePress #FirstAmendment and anti-#censorship activists for the libraries’ troubles with #banned #books.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/04/13/texas-libraries-banned-books/
Still #banned on #youtube as of 4-13-2023 because they haven't addressed my appeal against their #strike for "linking to sexually explicit nudity" in my interview with my #intersex friend (the "porn" in question was to a discord server they run that serves as a resource and support group for other intersex people). Just a warning that no URL is safe in a Youtube description--those crazy kids' #algorithms will decide ANYTHING is "porn."
If someone is telling your #school or #town that they can't #read something, that should be all the incentive you need to get yourself a copy... 🤔 😆
@bookstodon @bookbubble @bookstadon @publiclibraries @libraries
#Reading #Reader
#Recommendation #Banned #Books
#ReadingCommunity #Bookwyrm #Bookstodon #BookLove #BoostingIsSharing
The American #Library Association found that #books that are commonly #banned are deemed “obscene” or “inappropriate,” but these are the books teens find represent their experience the most: Why the Current String of Book Bans Hurt Teens More Than Any Other Demographic #FirstAmendment #censorship #FreePress #FreedomToRead
holy shit yall I just tried to put up a FULLY CLOTHED video that's simply talking to my friends about the channels they want to start, one about disability awareness and one about her experiences as an intersex person (born with XXY chromosomes) and the fuckwits over at #youtube IMMEDIATELY #banned it as "nudity and sexual content" 🙃
Of course I appealed it, but past experience has always proven that appeals are useless and will just immediately get rejected anyway. Why do I even bother?
I may have to make a new twitter account, just to dm @teamyoutube, which has been the ONLY time I've ever been able to contact someone to get a wrongly banned video reinstated (and rarely at that). Fucking insanity.
Feeling like maybe I should give up on this whole content creation thing finally, again. I mean, I should be tired of getting punched in the face by now.
The Australian government has joined the European Union, US, UK, Denmark, Norway, the Netherlands, France and Canada in banning TikTok from politicians and public servants’ work devices.
12 books #banned from public libraries b/c of LGBTQ & racial content must be back on shelves in 24 hours. Includes: “Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents,” “They Called Themselves the K.K.K.: The Birth of an American Terrorist Group” & “Being Jazz: My Life as a (Transgender) Teen”
Alaa Elassar, Taylor Romine and Andy Rose, (2023) "Judge orders #books removed from Texas public #libraries due to LGBTQ and racial content must be returned within 24 hours" CNN (4/1/2023) https://edition.cnn.com/2023/04/01/us/texas-book-ban-removed-library-replaced-judge/index.html
Charles Blow:
A Florida School Banned a Disney Movie About Ruby Bridges. So I Watched It.
“The wave of censorship we’re seeing also invokes, for me, the “slave” Bible, an abridged text used in the 1800s in the West Indies to try to pacify the enslaved. Passages that evoked liberation were cut and passages that supported slavery were kept. It was a tool of psychological warfare masquerading as sacred text.”
#BlackMastodon #Banned
#justdrafts | #linkedlist — The Word “Arrested” Is Now Banned on Midjourney (Good Luck with That)
The Great Firewall of Midjourney.
Wish.com is no longer #banned in #France. Although just last week, a penal court in Paris fined them 3 mio Euro for their former practice of fake discounts. The founder, a #billionaire, shall pay €250k, as I explain in German for @heiseonline - but the best part is the #video!
#Wish #fraud #Betrug #Zensur #Verbraucherschutz #Konsumenten #censorship #law #Recht #wish.com #fake #teuer #Ramsch #Rabatt #France #Frankreich
Tonight's the night! Talking about BANNED RADIOS with Dennis Kidder W6DQ at Radio Amateur Training Planning and Activities Committee's weekly shindig.
1800 US Pacific time. Learn about this talk, get the link, and find many many more at https://sites.google.com/view/ratpac
Dennis Kidder and I will do a panel session and answer your questions.
This is interesting--> "Get #banned #book recommendations from NEA. Text BANNED to 48744."
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTRnM2VTG/
via Nikki D. Robertson
@danjmcs Great shirt (“I’m with the #banned”); thanks!
Reposting with alt text.
#BannedBooks
I was just #banned on a #Friendica server, and I did nothing wrong. All I was doing was following myself and writing simple posts to test #ActivityPub integration.
When #newbies tell us, 'its tough having to choose a server', community members often scoff. How hard could it be? Well, what would a newbie know beyond the names of those servers? They'd have to do an hours long deep dive, just to get an account. Which could be banned at any time for any reason.
An idea that we should try in Florida.
#books #banned #BannedBooks #Florida #RonDeSantis #DeSantis
https://www.joeydevilla.com/2023/02/13/an-idea-that-we-should-try-in-florida/
@brewsterkahle And that's why everyone should #torrent & #IPFS the #books #banned in #Florida and teach others #TechLiteracy.
Books banned in Red states
can be read by ANY teen--
ebooks from Brooklyn.
https://www.bklynlibrary.org/books-unbanned
#Haiku #Senryu #Poetry #TinyPoems #SmallPoems #Poets #Prompts #Prompt #WritingPrompt #Poem #AmWriting #MicroPoetry #Writing #WritingCommunity #PoetryCommunity
This is a FREE teen ebook library card service from the Brooklyn (NY) Public library available nationwide. It was launched to combat book banning.
Videos labelled "hate"
Few views on recent postings*
Accounts suspended
* the word for this: "shadow-banning" #banned #haiku #575prompt
Here is an excellent book list if you're looking for things to read. If it's been #banned by the #ChristianTaliban , it's probably pretty good.
“Every student in our nation should be able to learn about the culture, contributions, and experiences of all Americans – including Black Americans – who shaped our history,” Harris said to the lawmakers.
#MVP #KamalaHarris #VP
#VPHarris #florida #history
#blackhistory #americanhistory #banned
#khive @khive
@randomwalker @TrueSciPhi Very interesting. There are still #journalists #banned from #Twitter because the Dear Leader didn't like what they said (and others, like me who tweeted a link to the main website of @ADSBexchange ).
This reminds me of #wartime #reporting when the #journo is operating from enemy territory and subject to #censorship. Each report includes a disclaimer that there are restrictions on what they can report.
At what point should journalists, or scientists, remind readers on Twitter that what they publish there is subject to some restrictions?
Senior #TikTok executives said they were taking special measures to #comply, including opening a European #data centre in #Ireland. Last month, TikTok admitted that staff at its parent company, #ByteDance, accessed data from the #app to #track #journalists. The #US government has #banned TikTok from federal smart devices over data #vulnerability concerns.
#BBCWorldService news
Every year, the Lake Superior State University come up with words and terms that have been banished for the year ahead. Words are picked based on their misuse, overuse and uselessness.
The list for 2023;
1. GOAT (Greatest Of All Time)
2. Inflection point
3. Quiet quitting
4. Gaslighting
5. Moving forward
6. Amazing
7. Does that make sense?
8. Irregardless
9. Absolutely
10. It is what it is
@Julia @Mer__edith the problem with #Signal and all #centralized, #proprietary & #SingleVendor / #SingleProvider "solutions" is that they are not only regulated like #Telcos but can be effectively #banned and forced under threat of indefinite jailtime and shutdown to integrate #Govware #backdoors - espechally within the #backend.
Whereas true #E2EE setups like #GnuPG & #OMEMO really are unbannable and uncensorable, as attacks against them don't scale at all!
Happy New Year's Eve to everybody except for Florida prison officials who decided this week to permanently ban my book.
I hope you are hungover for like two weeks.
EDIT: I think we locked down anti-trolling measures enough to make it safe to post an invite link right here! Join now at: https://discord.gg/cMtKd8j3
The #OutcastCreatorCollective new #Discord server is NOW ACCEPTING NEW USERS!
Our discord server is a place for #contentcreator / #influencer / #livestream / #artist / #writer / and many other types of #creators (and their fans/supporters!) to share tips and resources, commiserate and complain (in our #rant room 🙂), find others to #collaborate with, and to #selfpromote your content (as long as that's not the ONLY involvement you have with our community!)
The #outcast part of our name is because our community is focused especially on supporting so-called #outcastcreators, those who don't abide by societal rules set by #ThePatriarchy / #Capitalism / #Sponsorships / #AdFriendly / #monetization and are therefore #ostracized -- #banned , #blocked, #shadowbanned , or otherwise #censored / face #censorship to a degree that most creators never face!
Folks like #sexworker / #erotic / #adultentertainer , #intersectionalfeminism (not the ad-friendly "girl power" kind), #normalizenudity ,
#progressive / #leftist ,#sexualeducation , #kink and #fetish education, #LGBTQ + / #queer , #disability , #houseless , #racialequality , #mentalhealth and many other types of #activism , and so on.
(Worry not--any nudity or erotic/adult content is limited to our 18+ rooms, which require age verification to access. You won't accidentally stumble onto anything that's likely to get you embarrassed on the bus!)
Please note you don't HAVE to be an "outcast creator" to join us, you just have to be respectful towards those who are, and expect to cross paths with them in our community.
Also please note that we are NOT a place that is welcoming to white nationalists, conspiracy theorists, TERFs, "debate bros" or otherwise toxic people who usually use the excuse of "free speech" to be hateful towards others. Respectful language is strictly enforced- no insults, no matter how subtle you think you're being, will be tolerated. Our community is, above all else, dedicated to being a #wholesome (if ad-unfriendly) space that is here to support creators and their followers, NOT provide yet another platform for hate.
We're a new server, but staffed with volunteers who have experience with a variety of content creation, and we're very open to feedback to however we can improve our community!
I hope to see you there!
#Anger at ‘#irresponsible’ #Christmas sales of #eScooters #banned on #UK #roads | #Transport | The Guardian
Big-name #retailers are #marketing the #popular mode of transport, despite use of privately owned models being banned in #publicPlaces.
Welcome to what happens when you go banning Transphobes from your instance.
Got to love people sometimes.
Can 100% get in the bin.
Some recent topics I've covered in videos (discussion only,
#cuckolding #fetish interview-
https://www.toplesstopics.org/cuckolding
getting #banned yet again on #instagram for "hate speech"?! (in a satirical quote summarizing what I hear from #misogyny)
https://www.toplesstopics.org/rant-igban/
"Topless Topics Rants: Apparently I’m an Immoral Whore!" https://www.toplesstopics.org/immoralwhore/
Other videos I'm proud of here!
https://www.toplesstopics.org/featured-videos/