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CNN: Armed activists show up to library and demand they ban books
Libraries

CNN: Armed activists show up to library and demand they ban books

Posted on September 3, 2022September 3, 2022 by Michael Sauers
WATCH: “Princess Boy’s” mom speaks out for LGBT kids’ books
Libraries

WATCH: “Princess Boy’s” mom speaks out for LGBT kids’ books

Posted on July 17, 2015 by Michael Sauers

Peter from the National Coalition Against Censorship sez, “At a public hearing over whether or not to remove LGBT children’s books from a public library,…

Throwback Thursday: A very enlightening blog post
Libraries

Throwback Thursday: A very enlightening blog post

Posted on February 5, 2015February 4, 2015 by Michael Sauers

Generally Throwback Thursdays are to reminisce things that the blogger in question, me in this case, about items from their past like old photos, follow-up…

Politics & Law

UK porn filters block sex education websites

Posted on December 19, 2013 by Michael Sauers

For those that keep insisting “filters are smarter than they used to be…” Among the sites TalkTalk blocked as “pornographic” was BishUK.com, an award-winning British sex…

Books

New Zealand National Library pulls Allan More graphic novels

Posted on October 23, 2013 by Michael Sauers

A graphic novel that depicts the sexual encounters of fairytale heroines has made history as the first book pulled from the New Zealand National Library…

Tech

Tuesday Tech Tip: Use Google as a Proxy Server to Bypass Filters & Paywalls

Posted on July 23, 2013 by Michael Sauers

If you have trouble accessing a web page either because the website is blocked at your workplace, or because that page happens to be behind…

Politics & Law

Elizabeth Warren’s Takedown Of CNBC Removed From YouTube

Posted on July 19, 2013 by Michael Sauers

A viral clip of Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) ripping into the hosts of CNBC’s “Squawk Box” has been removed from the senator’s YouTube channel. According…

Tech

Apple’s mobile devices have a secret list of “sensitive” words that don’t autocomplete

Posted on July 17, 2013 by Michael Sauers

It’s stuff like this that makes me less and less likely to ever buy another Apple device. The Daily Beast investigated the autocomplete on Apple…

Libraries

New York Public Library Blocks The Pirate Bay

Posted on March 20, 2013March 20, 2013 by Michael Sauers

NYPL uses filters. Fine. I’m not going to have that argument. But it looks like they block “Peer-to-Peer File Sharing” as a category. Why? A…

Libraries

Federal judge: Public library cannot censor pagan websites

Posted on March 7, 2013March 7, 2013 by Michael Sauers

Funny how the library lost this case… Salem Library Director Glenda Wofford told Hunter the websites could only be unblocked if [the patron] had a…

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