censorship | Joanne Jacobs

Joanne Jacobs

Oct 72 min read

Just say 'no' to authority

Would-be regulators of "disinformation" are trying to punish deviation from their beliefs, charges journalist Matt Taibbi in The Free...

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71% of students say they'd report a professor for 'wrongthink'

Joanne Jacobs

Sep 292 min read

71% of students say they'd report a professor for 'wrongthink'

College students are unwilling to tolerate professors with "offensive" opinions.

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Judge: 1st-graders' free-speech rights don't matter

Joanne Jacobs

Jul 202 min read

Judge: 1st-graders' free-speech rights don't matter

After a lesson on Martin Luther King Jr. at a southern California elementary school, a seven -year-old white girl drew a picture with...

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Why is 'Gender Queer' in the middle-school library?

Joanne Jacobs

Jun 102 min read

Why is 'Gender Queer' in the middle-school library?

Parents don't want drag queens or books that feature sex toys in school libraries.

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'I want the library to be there for everyody, not just people who share my voting record'

Joanne Jacobs

Feb 252 min read

'I want the library to be there for everyody, not just people who share my voting record'

When a patron donated a book questioning "the transgender craze" to the Blue Hill Public Library, librarian Rich Boulet decided "it...

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Shakespeare's smut: 'Out, out, gosh-darned spot'

Joanne Jacobs

Aug 14, 20232 min read

Shakespeare's smut: 'Out, out, gosh-darned spot'

There's no need to edit the dirty jokes out of Shakespeare's plays to comply with Florida's new law, according to the state Education...

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'Book bans' sound bad, but so does graphic sex in school libraries

Joanne Jacobs

May 15, 20232 min read

'Book bans' sound bad, but so does graphic sex in school libraries

President Biden keeps talking about "book bans," writes Andrew Rotherham on Eduwonk. It's become "a nervous tic" for Education Secretary...

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40% of 8th-graders are 'below basic' in history

Joanne Jacobs

May 4, 20232 min read

40% of 8th-graders are 'below basic' in history

Eighth-graders don't know much about U.S. history and civics, according to the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), which...

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Canceling SkippyJon: Everyone wants to censor something

Joanne Jacobs

May 3, 20231 min read

Canceling SkippyJon: Everyone wants to censor something

Skippyjon Jones, about a Siamese cat who thought he was a Chihuahua, was a huge hit when it came out in 2003, recalls James V. Shuls. His...

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Guns, gays, suicide, smoking ... The show may not go on after all

Joanne Jacobs

May 3, 20232 min read

Guns, gays, suicide, smoking ... The show may not go on after all

Can a high school put on Oklahoma without guns? The Theatre Guild at an Ann Arbor (MI) high school revised the classical musical days...

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Was Anne Frank bisexual? Graphic novel -- with breasts! -- is out of school library

Joanne Jacobs

Apr 13, 20232 min read

Was Anne Frank bisexual? Graphic novel -- with breasts! -- is out of school library

The Diary of Anne Frank remains in the Vero Beach High School library, but the Florida school has removed a retelling of the story, Anne...

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Rewriting Roald Dahl: Nobody's 'fat' or 'female'

Joanne Jacobs

Feb 21, 20232 min read

Rewriting Roald Dahl: Nobody's 'fat' or 'female'

Characters can be "enormous" and "beastly," but not "fat" or "ugly," in the new sensitivity-edited versions of Roald Dahl's children's...

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AI is learning to censor social media, and your taxes are paying for it

Joanne Jacobs

Dec 23, 20221 min read

AI is learning to censor social media, and your taxes are paying for it

President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan includes half a million dollars for research in technology to detect and remove...

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