>You can have the book at school, but the school library won't have it.
False.
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i know what the url for wikipedia is, thanks.
if you wouldn't link/cite it in an email to a work peer, boss, vendor, etc. then dont cite it on an informal message board.
False.
Even if the librarian (or in some cases, even if the school district) wants to place the book on the shelves, they are not allowed to.
You keep saying this all over this thread, can you please tell me how you are reaching this conclusion?
I have linked you to at least one entire state (covering 40+ school districts) where what you are saying is completely false.
Typically, if a school bans something, it also means that the children are not allowed to bring the banned thing onto the school premises.
No, they are "prohibited in the school setting". You cannot bring it with you.
Pen clearly defines what they consider a ban. Hustler would not meet the definition (hint: it's not because its a magazine).
Sorry, I'll edit my comment to be more clear. It is illegal for school libraries to stock it, even if they (teachers, the district, the parents, etc.) want it to be carried.
As a reminder for readers, the title of the article contains "in U.S. schools". It is probably a safe assumption to use that context for the comments in this thread.
The one I was referring to:
https://www.sltrib.com/news/education/2024/08/02/utah-book-b...
"The law, which went into effect July 1, requires that a book be removed from all public schools in the state if at least three school districts (or at least two school districts and five charter schools) determine it amounts to “objective sensitive material”"
It seems like there may be more similar laws, per sibling comment.
>Aren't there other books that are banned for legitimate reasons like hate speech and racial hate that aren't included here?
I don't know, and I'm not sure how it is related to my comment. I did not create the list in the article and I don't maintain any other list of banned books.
You can look into it, if you're curious! Some of these books are indeed banned from schools (even if they want to stock it!), by state-level law no less! It's not a curation choice.
>Your school not stocking books you want is not a ban. It’s the prerogative of the institution to choose how it shapes minds.
At least some of these books are banned from schools by state-level law, not because the school district chose to not stock it.
My local bookstore proudly features a table of "banned books" right at the entrance. It's a pretty good advertisement!
Not specific to your comment here, but speaking more generally: I always found it sort of interesting how "morning people" are typically thought of as more productive, less lazy, etc. than "night people". If you say you wake up every morning at 5am people are impressed and assume you are highly motivated, but if you tell people you go to bed at 3am every day people assume you're lazy and maybe depressed. Yet everyone has roughly the same amount of waking hours -- the only thing that should matter is what you're doing with them, not when you have them.
>wanted to have a more positive framing showing the original post really did make decent points
I didn't even criticize this article! I made a meta-comment on the overall discussion, across several platforms, where I said _some_ of the conversation is hyperbolic.
They may need to retain certain information for laws, but they aren't obligated by law to also share that information with their analytics partners.
The original title is 75 characters. Your title is 74 characters. If it was edited for length reasons, I'm not sure saving 1 character is worth it.
I had an inkling! They've been on a roll this past year or so.
>This data includes a PornHub Premium member's email address, activity type, location, video URL, video name, keywords associated with the video, and the time the event occurred.
Well, that's pretty fucking wild! Email address & time and location sent to a 3rd party, nice! Absolutely no reason for that, of course. Especially considering these are paying customers!
I guess somewhat notably is Mixpanel denying that it's coming from their November breach. They have less incentive to lie in this case, given that they've already admitted to being breached, and (presumably) their systems & logs have been gone over with a fine-toothed comb to identify all affected parties:
>"The data was last accessed by a legitimate employee account at Pornhub’s parent company in 2023. If this data is in the hands of an unauthorized party, we do not believe that is the result of a security incident at Mixpanel."
It's obviously marketing. But their marketing strategy appears to be being unashamed about ripping off content and creating bot farms.
What are you suggesting they are lying about? They're actually doing it for the good of the world and just pretending they're a bot farm for hire?
Before I respond, can I confirm whether this supposed to be addressed at my comment?
>"Take proven content and spawn variation."
It's almost refreshing how unashamed they are. I hate it, obviously, but I kind of like it better than companies that say something dressed up in marketing speak but actually mean what this site just says outright.
I just wish some of the conversation wasn't so hyperbolic. For anyone not as passionate who may have been on the fence about Firefox before reading all of the blogs, news articles, comments, tweets, etc., they sure as hell aren't going to make the switch now. Ironically, the death knell for Firefox might not be from the new CEO, but from the users convincing everyone to stay on Chrome.
If your first comment wasn’t a lie, and instead talked about how you think that he’s putting out feelers, I wouldn’t have commented. But instead, you made stuff up and that’s weird.
Well, it was an excuse to get the pitchforks out! We love to do that around here. Especially if I can say "AI", "slop", "crypto", "MBA", etc.
God, people are so weird. Why make stuff up?
No, in fact, he said the opposite. He said he doesn't want to do that because it feels "off-mission".
Whether he changes his tune in the future or not is up for debate, but come on. Lets not skip right to the pitchfork stage just yet.
Many of my most memorable moments stem from from a bout of irrationality.