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School uses AI to remove 200 books, including Orwell's 1984 and Twilight
- zthrowaway 7mo agoUK doing UK things per usual.
- toofy 7mo agounfortunately, we have the problem in a few places in the US as well. florida and texas in particular. [0] last year florida has at least 2,300 instances of book bannings and texas had at least 1,700. its wild to watch this all happen so quickly. [0] https://pen.org/book-bans/book-ban-resources/ https://pen.org/book-bans/book-ban-resources/ (if you scroll down to the map it shows how many instances of book bannings by state)
- gpvos 7mo agoThey are more or less importing this from the US, where this has been going on for a time already, especially at school libraries.
- toofy 7mo agothe librarian was put under investigation when she refused to ban the books. > An investigation into the librarian was soon launched and the library closed as a "temporary safeguarding measure". of course 1984 is one of the books being banned.
- ivell 7mo agoIt seems 1984 is the manual that most governments are using to inspire themselves. Definitely not something that us plebs should have access to. /s (for those few)..
- agrishin 7mo agoI red 1984 and "Brave new world" roughly at the same time, and for quite some time I thought 1984 to be too unrealistic, and I considered bnw as more likely scenario. I was wrong.
- zombar 7mo agoI remember having a similar feeling about 'A Handmaids Tale', a TV show I gave up watching because I would actually weep myself to sleep. Coming soon no doubt. It's like they are determined to make dystopian nightmares a reality, almost as if they know the end is nigh or this particular iteration of civilization is drawing to a close and they are determined to squeeze the very soul out of the experience. To what end? Distraction? Personal enrichment?
- voakbasda 7mo agoEveryone wants their slice of the pie fore the music stops?
- okokwhatever 7mo agoThere is a reason why we need to safeguard the culture (old, recent & actual) for the future generations. This is a intergenerational responsibility that we need to tackle asap.
- matanakapo 7mo ago[flagged]
- jleyank 7mo agoI’ve heard that various religious texts have strong, sensitive sometimes violent themes. Yet nobody bans them. Wonder why.
- aaron695 7mo ago[dead]
- BobBagwill 7mo agoI wonder if Fahrenheit 451 was banned too? Or maybe it was kept as a how-to manual?
- drweevil 7mo ago“Safeguarding”. How very, um, Orwellian.
- boznz 7mo agoThe title drips with irony
- yubainu 7mo ago[flagged]