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AI is "speeding up censorship": Schools banned more books than ever this year
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transscribe7891 lemmy.dbzer0.com transscribe7891@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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Carrots quokk.au Carrots@quokk.au
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I’m pretty sure this is like where body like %gay% and republican grifters sold it as AI.

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A_norny_mousse piefed.social A_norny_mousse@piefed.social
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#3 · (edited) Quote Reply

Damn this sucks. AI here and there and everywhere. Better christofascism with AI. Not only the US admin but its whole big business needs to die.

The string "Bible" wasn't found in the article. I wonder if their models have an exception for that. Must be, it ticks pretty much all their boxes for banning.

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0ops piefed.zip 0ops@piefed.zip
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#4 · Quote Reply

Schools are banning Lawn Boy? Is that header image accurate?

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Gyrcas piefed.zip Gyrcas@piefed.zip
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#5 · Quote Reply

Everyday, another horrific use of AI...

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forbiddencherry lemmy.today forbiddencherry@lemmy.today
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#6 · Quote Reply

A lot of schools don't even have libraries anymore.

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Libb piefed.social Libb@piefed.social
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#7 · (edited) Quote Reply

Hence the utmost and urgent necessity for families to have their own libraries, a family and a personal one or one shared among families, just making it out of reach from schools.

At least for the time being, we're still allowed to purchase whatever 'banned' books by any school.

Edit: and make it a print library, actual books not ebooks: as no AI can remotely edit or delete a printed book.

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IanTwenty piefed.social IanTwenty@piefed.social
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Schools are banning Lawn Boy? Is that header image accurate?

One of the American Library Association's Top 10 Most Banned Books for the past two years, this award-winning coming-of-age novel takes readers into the heart and humor of a young man determined to achieve the ever-changing American dream. He just happens to find himself along the way.

https://bookshop.org/p/books/lawn-boy-jonathan-evison/fa6e06cab7923532?ean=9781616209230

You can browse and buy all the banned books from their link here:

https://pen.org/report/book-bans-spotlight-2026/

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Walters, Fern bookwyr.me waltersf@bookwyr.me
Joined: 2026-08-23
#9 · Quote Reply

Hence the utmost and urgent necessity for families to have their own libraries, a family and a personal one or one shared among families, just making it out of reach from schools. At least for the time being, we're still allowed to purchase whatever 'banned' books by any school. Edit: and make it a print library, actual books not ebooks: as no AI can remotely edit or delete a printed book.

Nah, we need to open more vandal-resistant public libraries. Kids that go to public schools are the firsts to need public accessible knowledge because guardians cannot afford a personal collection. We need to also resist by making more copies abundant. Get everyone of these books reprinted, remirrored, torrented, etc.. Knowledge is lost when we do not copy.

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frostypanda lemmy.dbzer0.com frostypanda@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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Nah, we need to open more vandal-resistant public libraries. Kids that go to public schools are the firsts to need public accessible knowledge because guardians cannot afford a personal collection. We need to also resist by making more copies abundant. Get everyone of these books reprinted, remirrored, torrented, etc.. Knowledge is lost when we do not copy.

This. It's the poor kids who this targets the most in the first place. Equal access to uncensored media is absolutely essential for any society that isn't a fascist paradise.

It's not just libraries either. People need to reject censorship across the board. Why the hell is George Carlin's 'Seven Words You Can Never Say on Television' still relevant to this day?

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IamMoonPie lemmy.world IamMoonPie@lemmy.world
Joined: 2026-09-09
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The only books I wanna see banned are AI books.

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Libb piefed.social Libb@piefed.social
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#12 · (edited) Quote Reply

Nah, we need to open more vandal-resistant public libraries. Kids that go to public schools are the firsts to need public accessible knowledge because guardians cannot afford a personal collection. We need to also resist by making more copies abundant. Get everyone of these books reprinted, remirrored, torrented, etc.. Knowledge is lost when we do not copy.

Kids that go to public schools are the firsts to need public accessible knowledge because guardians cannot afford a personal collection.

Hence me suggesting people try to organize something together, not to bear the cost alone (note that used books can be found for cheap... but for that people should at least know used books are a thing and since most don't read much anymore, they probably have no clue)

Knowledge is lost when we do not copy.

Indeed.

Note that knowledge is also lost the moment we (the elders) stop transmitting kids the desire (and the ability) to read.... which is very precisely and very, very actively what our society is doing right now to those kids. And no school would feel that entitled to ban a single book if they new parents were worrying about what's going with books and reading in that library.

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A_norny_mousse piefed.social A_norny_mousse@piefed.social
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#13 · Quote Reply

Nah, we need to open more vandal-resistant public libraries. Kids that go to public schools are the firsts to need public accessible knowledge because guardians cannot afford a personal collection. We need to also resist by making more copies abundant. Get everyone of these books reprinted, remirrored, torrented, etc.. Knowledge is lost when we do not copy.

vandal-resistant

Are you refering to the topic of this post or something else?

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Walters, Fern bookwyr.me waltersf@bookwyr.me
Joined: 2026-08-23
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vandal-resistant Are you refering to the topic of this post or something else?

Both, LLM users filtering books, and the book burners. They are virtually the same team: anti-intellectualism.

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krakloskewm lemmy.zip krakloskewm@lemmy.zip
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#15 · (edited) Quote Reply

The only books I wanna see banned are AI books.

Id like to see some books banned.

The bible. The torah. The quran. Whatever books are holy to hinduism and buddhism too, to make it faor, i guess.

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varyingExpertise feddit.org varyingExpertise@feddit.org
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#16 · Quote Reply

Hence the utmost and urgent necessity for families to have their own libraries, a family and a personal one or one shared among families, just making it out of reach from schools. At least for the time being, we're still allowed to purchase whatever 'banned' books by any school. Edit: and make it a print library, actual books not ebooks: as no AI can remotely edit or delete a printed book.

Yes, but it can edit people that then ban and burn books.

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jumping redditor [they/them] sh.itjust.works jumping_redditor@sh.itjust.works
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#17 · Quote Reply

It's texas florada and a little of utah, is there a complete list if the thousand of banned books and not the 17 most boring?

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melsaskca lemmy.ca melsaskca@lemmy.ca
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#18 · Quote Reply

You just can't throw in the letters "AI" and then say anything. This makes no sense. If anything, it's white, Christo-fascists infiltrating a free america that are speeding things up and banning more books. How the hell does "AI" fit into any of that? The only thing I can think of is "Hey AI, what books do you think I should ban?".

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Corkyskog sh.itjust.works Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works
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#19 · Quote Reply

Id like to see some books banned. The bible. The torah. The quran. Whatever books are holy to hinduism and buddhism too, to make it faor, i guess.

Ew. That would just reinforce the persecution complex most of the followers have.

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krakloskewm lemmy.zip krakloskewm@lemmy.zip
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#20 · Quote Reply

Ew. That would just reinforce the persecution complex most of the followers have.

Fuck em

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IamMoonPie lemmy.world IamMoonPie@lemmy.world
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#21 · Quote Reply

Id like to see some books banned. The bible. The torah. The quran. Whatever books are holy to hinduism and buddhism too, to make it faor, i guess.

Nope, that is the opposite of what I said.

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krakloskewm lemmy.zip krakloskewm@lemmy.zip
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#22 · Quote Reply

Nope, that is the opposite of what I said.

Okey dokey.

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