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The “Top Ten” list below is also included in the “State of Libraries 2011” report that we posted about and linked to earlier today. ALA’s Office of Intellectual Freedom (OIF) reported 348 challenges during 2010. Here are the Top Ten: And Tango Makes Three, by Peter Parnell and Justin Richardson Reasons: homosexuality, religious viewpoint, and […]
OpenNet Initiative: The Year in Review 2010 was an eventful year with respect to filtering and surveillance. “Among the year’s most well-known events are the banning of Blackberry services across Saudi Arabia, India, Bahrain, and other countries in the region as governments demanded increased access to data on RIM devices; the blocking of Facebook in […]
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From WSMV-TV (via MSNBC): A parent’s complaint about an AIDS memoir in the library at Cheatham Middle School [in Ashland City, TN] led to the book being pulled from general circulation. The Cheatham County School Board voted to change its policy on library books to allow the director of schools to remove a book on […]