Archive for the 'Humans' Category
Middle school to keep challenged book
March 25th, 2008The Wenatchee World Online - “The book “Alice on Her Way” will stay in Icicle River Middle School’s library, but with checkout restricted to students who have parental consent, the Cascade school board unanimously decided Monday.”
Parents take son out of school over controversial book
March 12th, 2008WWAY - “A book on a local ninth grade reading list has some parents so upset, they took their son out of school.”
Big win for Idaho families: porn books pulled off Nampa library shelves
March 12th, 2008Bryan Fischer - “The Nampa Library Board yesterday voted 3-2 to pull two pornographic books off library shelves and sequester them in the library director’s office, a move which will make the library safer for Nampa families and their children.”
Librarian Fired Over DeLillo Book Dies at Age 77
January 23rd, 2008MyFox Colorado - “Anna “Jeanne” Layton refused to take “Americana” off the shelves of the Davis County Library, arguing that patrons could decide whether they wanted to read it.”
More on Human Filtering
December 7th, 2007LJ - “A Maine library has been cleared of obscenity charges for having a controversial sex ed title on its shelves, and the patron who removed the book from the library will stand trial for theft.”
More on Human Filtering
December 1st, 2007From this piece, comes the strangest comment on human filtering I have read in a while:
”I just want kids to enjoy their innocence and their time of growing up,” Jeff Issa said, explaining his persistence. ”Let them be kids
and not worry about homosexuality, race, religion. Just let them live freely as kids.”
Let your [...]
More On Human Filtering
November 27th, 2007Good point - “If every book were to be taken off the shelves because someone considered it offensive, libraries would be empty.”
NIMBY
November 24th, 2007Human filtering in my own backyard…well, an hour away, but still scary.
And I thought this stuff didn’t happen on LI. Hah.
More on Human Filtering - The Bad Kind
September 21st, 2007gjovaag - “Vigilante censorship doesn’t work.”
More on Human Filtering - The Bad Kind
September 21st, 2007Edythe Jensen - “Patrons’ complaints about the Phoenix New Times and comedian George Carlin’s audio book When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops? could lead to the publications being yanked from library shelves if the Chandler Library Board agrees they’re too racy, irreverent or politically incorrect for public consumption.”
More on Human Filtering - The Bad Kind
September 20th, 2007Carlos Sadovi - “After hearing from the district’s lawyers, the principal sent a letter to parents Monday informing them that the book would remain on the required reading list. He warned parents that if they directed their children not to read the book, it could “have a significant negative effect on the final course grade.”
The [...]
More on Human Filters
September 14th, 2007Editorial - “Some of those teens may be mature enough to read it as a cautionary tale. Others may be turned off by its depictions. Parents and guardians have a right to determine what their children read, as well. But the critics of the book do not have a right to dictate what other students [...]
More on Human Filters
September 12th, 2007EirePreneur - “Anyone who wants to put the RSS genie back in the bottle and rob the web of human filters should go work with the dead tree press.”
Trusting Humans…Again
August 27th, 2007Scott Karp - “When you place a big bet on a new model, it’s always nice hear that smart people are thinking about the big trends that underlie that model. So it was great to hear Robert Scoble, Paul Graham, and Larry Kramer thinking about human-driven information filtering on the Web — and particularly the [...]