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Seven words now banned at the Centers for Disease Control

December 16, 2017 Gloria Shur Bilchik Language/Words, Science, Widgets: Science/Technology Leave a comment

If you work at the Centers for Disease Control—the nation’s top public health agency—you are now officially banned from using the following seven words:

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Celebrating the freedom to read: Banned Book Week

September 23, 2011 Stacy Mergenthal Civil Rights, Ideas, Literature/Arts/Film Leave a comment

Every year since 1982, book stores, book lovers, and libraries across the country have spent the last days of September raising awareness and protesting censorship.

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My kids’ school doesn’t ban books. I checked. And yours?

September 12, 2011 Stacy Mergenthal Civil Rights, Education, Ideas, Literature/Arts/Film, Youth issues One comment

Students in Missouri’s Republic school district won’t find Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse Five or Sarah Ockler’s Twenty Boy Summer in their school libraries. Classics like

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Don’t fix net neutrality. It isn’t broken.

January 10, 2011 Stacy Mergenthal Government, Technology Leave a comment

The Federal Communications Commission voted a partisan 3-2 on network neutrality on December 21st, in what proponents consider an upset. The rules, a flimsy

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Operation Dark Heart joins the censorship “Hall of Futility”

October 4, 2010 Gloria Shur Bilchik Civil Rights 2 comments

In a novel approach to censorship, the US Department of Defense [DOD] recently bought up the entire 10,000-copy first run of Operation Dark Heart,

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Banned or burned, the Koran’s in good company

September 13, 2010 Gloria Shur Bilchik History 2 comments

By the time you read this, an extremist Christian minister in Florida may or may not have burned copies of the Koran. He is

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