X, formerly known as Twitter, began to censor posts from the American Accountability Foundation (AAF) last week for exposing some of the content the American Library Association (ALA) and local libraries around the country promote to children.
On Sunday, AAF explained in a Substack newsletter that Elon Musk’s online platform slapped a “sensitive content” warning on “ALL OUR SOCIAL POSTS.” The AAF Twitter account has also been shadowbanned “so that you won’t find us in a search on X.”
In July, the conservative opposition research group published a long and damning thread — which doesn’t even show any pornographic imagery or explicit book excerpts — chronicling the far-left activism of the ALA under its new leadership. Now the whole account is blocked as “sensitive content” unless users have chosen to display sensitive material through their personal settings.
Posts are hidden entirely from internet users not signed in to X.
“Under these rules, you’ll probably find more adult content at the kids’ library than on Twitter,” AAF spokesman Yitz Friedman told The Federalist.
Parents from Georgia to Alaska have similarly been shut down at school board meetings for being too vulgar when they read straight from the books available to their children.
In April last year, the ALA elected a self-professed “Marxist lesbian” to lead the organization, which is responsible for coordinating programs for local libraries across the country. One year later, the Daily Signal reported on a list of 13 books the association recommended as the most “challenged” in the current educational environment, blaming anti-LGBT prejudice.
“It’s time to take action on behalf of authors, library staff, and the communities they serve. ALA calls on readers everywhere to show your commitment to the freedom to read by doing something to protect it,” the ALA announced when it released the list. All the books on the list, however, feature sexually explicit material, some of which is...
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We _don’t_ need the ALA. and neither do professional librarians. I should know, as I was one for 26 years in a high school library.
The second year of my career, I attended the national ALA conference, courtesy of my school district. What I witnessed there nearly 40 years ago disgusted me to my core. I don’t think I’ve ever witnessed a higher concentration of communist man-hating lesbians and insane women in any one place in my life. Their behavior was atrocious. And even back then, they were pushing garbage books into the school libraries, though the graphically sexual content was yet to be. At the end of the conference, I return to my school district, resolved to fight the ALA in my own quiet way for the rest of my career.
First step was to immediately cancel my ALA membership. I took some heat for that from my supervisor, but I didn’t care. (Every September, at the beginning of the school year, I would be pestered to re-join the ALA, but would ignore her. She finally gave up.)
Then, for the next 24 years, I kept a careful eye on what was allowed into my library collection. If it didn’t absolutely 100% support the curriculum, it wasn’t even considered. That right there kept out 95% of the crap. After that it was easy… my library collection was of an extraordinarily high quality because _I kept my standards very high_.
By the way, I was one of the few librarians at that conference and in the profession who is a straight White man. I remain convinced to this day that if we had more men working in libraries, we wouldn’t have all this filthy nonsense going on right now.
So you're mad at "X" for "censoring" content that you don't want children to see, even though if it wasn't censored children would be able to see it.
Consistency isn't your strong point, is it?
Anon, reason and logic are not in your repertoire.
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