Showing posts with label Homophobia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Homophobia. Show all posts

Tuesday, May 30, 2023

School Librarians: Martha Hickson Putting the Lie in Librarian

School librarians lie.  It's that simple.  Let's look at Martha Hickson's statements for which she was been awarded $13,000 by American Library Association, as explained in my previous post:

Kleinman, Dan. “School Board Hears About School Books and American Library Association’s Invidious Control.” SafeLibraries® (blog), May 28, 2023. https://safelibraries.blogspot.com/2023/05/school-board-hears-about-school-books.html.

I draw her statements from this NJ Spotlight News video, then analyze line by line to show the lies that lead directly to the s3xualization of school children:

Gagis, Joanna. “NJ School Librarian Receives National Award for Resisting Ban on LGBTQ Books; Lemony Snicket Prize Goes to Martha Hickson of North Hunterdon Regional High School.” NJ Spotlight News, August 12, 2022. https://www.njspotlightnews.org/video/nj-school-librarian-receives-national-award-for-resisting-ban-on-lgbtq-books/.

NJ Spotlight News Reporter Joanna Gagis - Martha, tell us about the books that some in your regional high school were trying to ban.

School Librarian Martha Hickson - I am a librarian at the North Hunterdon High School in Annandale, New Jersey, which is part of the North Hunterdon-Voorhees Regional High School District.  Last September, there were objections to five books, and the common theme among all five books that were objected to was that they addressed LGBTQIA themes.

Reporter - Was there language in those books that parents or others found problematic?

School Librarian - Yes, there was.  They found the language problematic, but I would invite any of those parents to come to the cafeteria during any given lunchtime, and they would see that that's part of the average teenager's vernacular.

Reporter - And so how did you succeed in keeping those books on the shelf?  What was your platform?  What was your message?

School Librarian - It was a difficult process, but basically, the platform and the message is the First Amendment.  We, as citizens of the United States, have the right to read and think freely, and it was continuing to hammer that message home.  And just because you're a teenager doesn't mean that you are without those First Amendment rights.

Reporter - How problematic do you see what's happening around the country right now, where there are groups looking to ban books that they find to be problematic in libraries and schools?

School Librarian - It's a huge issue.  You know, banning books or objecting to books is certainly every parent's right for their own child.  Every parent has the right to dictate or work in partnership with their children to determine what their child would read, but that right stops at your own front door.  You cannot tell other parents, other children what they may or may not read.  What's amplifying this is that the books have become a tool in a larger social and political movement.  What's extremely frustrating to the library community is that lists of books that are being created by political organizations are being circulated around the country.  The books are being objected to without people even reading them, and the objections come in the forms of random passages that are taken completely out of context and read aloud at board meetings for the purpose of manufacturing outrage.

Reporter - The American Library Association awarded you The Lemony Snicket Prize for Noble Librarians Faced With Adversity.  What does that award mean to you?

School Librarian - I'm thankful that by receiving the award, the issue of the right to read is being raised to greater prominence, not only within the library community at large but the general public.  I'm also very humbled to receive it because as your questioning thus far has implied, I am by no means the only librarian to have experienced challenges, to have experienced personal attacks to reputation and integrity, and to have fought for the right to read.  There are hundreds of librarians going through this around the country, and I was very happy to accept that award on their behalf.

Reporter - Martha Hickson, thank you so much.

School Librarian - Oh, you're welcome.

School librarian Martha Hickson starts off truthfully: "I am a librarian at the North Hunterdon High School in Annandale, New Jersey, which is part of the North Hunterdon-Voorhees Regional High School District."  So far so good.

The second sentence starts with the lies: "Last September, there were objections to five books, and the common theme among all five books that were objected to was that they addressed LGBTQIA themes.  True, then false.  True, five books were challenged for inappropriateness in a school environment.  

Then the jump off the cliff.  She attributes the challenge to homophobia, specifically claiming the parents opposed "LGBTQIA themes."  There are hundreds of books in school libraries with "LGBTQIA themes" but only five books were challenged?  Why not all of them?  The parents opposed the educational inappropriateness of the material in a school setting, not the "LGBTQIA themes."  Martha Hickson knows this, but no one's going to get in the way of her goal of s3xualizing as many school children as possible, hence the lies.

People know the LGBT excuse is just that, but school librarians act like they're in control.  Here's an example of someone else who knows school librarians think they are clever:

Kurpis, Jon. “School Librarians and the False Book Banning Narrative.” Substack newsletter. Jon Kurpis Official Substack (blog), May 26, 2023. https://kurpis.substack.com/p/school-librarians-and-the-false-book.

Heck, even library directors know this is a joke:

Kleinman, Dan. “The Banned Books Hustle.” SafeLibraries® (blog), September 17, 2022. https://safelibraries.blogspot.com/2022/09/the-banned-books-hustle.html.

Anyway, even the reporter doesn't immediately accept her claim of homophobia by the parents, so she pointedly asks whether the parents simply opposed the inappropriate language.  The school librarian only then admits to that, but goes on to say big deal, it's already what the kids talk about in the lunchroom anyway.  First, she made an assertion of homophobia that she tacitly withdraw once challenged by the reporter, and good on the reporter.  Second, she asserts that the children are foul mouthed at lunchtime.  So basically she defames the children.  I can promise you no way do school children at lunchtime speak in a manner that reflects the contents of the books she's defending and promoting to s3xualize the kids despite the law, community standards, and common sense.  So after defaming the parents and getting called out for doing so, she switches to defaming the children.  Wow.  Just wow.

The reporter then asks how the school librarian kept the book on the school shelves.  Her answer is, "the platform and the message is the First Amendment.  We, as citizens of the United States, have the right to read and think freely...."  "And just because you're a teenager doesn't mean that you are without those First Amendment rights."  That is spectacularly flat out false or wildly misleading.  School children do not have a First Amendment "right to read" absolutely anything in schools.  This was decided in 1982 by the US Supreme Court.  It's 2023.  Martha Hickson had forty one years to figure this out.  She already knows it.  But she's just going to plow ahead and keep pushing, or "hammer[ing] that message home," as she puts it.  Just one more way librarians put the lie in librarian.

And as to that vaunted "right to read," that was made up out of whole cloth by the American Library Association.  School children do not have a right to read anything a school librarian gives them:

Kleinman, Dan. “Librarians Attempt to Legislate 1960s Radical View That Age Is Not Morally Relevant.” SafeLibraries® (blog), April 10, 2023. https://safelibraries.blogspot.com/2023/04/librarians-attempt-to-legislate-1960s.html.

The reporter then asks a softball question and Martha hits it out of the park.  The reporter asks her about "book bans" across the country and who are the "groups looking to ban books."  Martha must have thought she's in media heaven.  "It's a huge issue."  No it's not.  Book banning is a nonexistent issue.  The last book ban in the USA was in 1963.  Schools removing educationally unsuitable or pervasively vulgar material from schools is not book banning.  The United States Supreme Court even made that clear in 1982.  For more on that, see this:

Volokh, Eugene. “Removal of Books With ‘Lascivious Content’ from School Libraries Likely Constitutionally Permissible.” Reason.Com (blog), August 9, 2022. https://reason.com/volokh/2022/08/09/removal-of-books-with-lascivious-content-from-school-libraries-likely-not-unconstitutional/.

The school librarian then says parents and only parents can keep inappropriate material from children and only their own children: "You know, banning books or objecting to books is certainly every parent's right for their own child.  Every parent has the right to dictate or work in partnership with their children to determine what their child would read, but that right stops at your own front door."  She's making an excuse for why school librarians s3xualize school kids to their hearts content.  So she's lying.  Parents elect school boards and expect them to make those very decisions of what's inappropriate for the school's library.  

That they don't and cede control to American Library Association is another story.  Indeed Martha's lies are part of the reason school boards pass off such decisions to the school librarians who happily make those very decisions, then sit on materials reconsideration boards to ensure parents rights are entirely subverted and the children continue to be s3xualized with books like "Gender Queer."

Martha goes on: "What's amplifying this is that the books have become a tool in a larger social and political movement."  Here Martha starts her diatribe that amounts to projection.  She claims there's a "larger social and political movement"—you know, the parents objecting to their children being s3xualized in school libraries—which is just projection.  In the link I gave above about the 1960s radical view about "age" inserted into the "Library Bill of Rights," it is the librarians who have pushed a "larger social and political movement" by s3xualizing school children, so much so that today the American Library Association has a Marxist President, Emily Drabinski, who brags about her Marxism and how she's bringing "collective power" to ALA:


That's followed by more projection: "What's extremely frustrating to the library community is that lists of books that are being created by political organizations are being circulated around the country."  It's American Library Association creating lists of books that are circulated around the county, and those lists emphasize educationally inappropriate and pervasively vulgar materials.  Indeed, American Library Association gives books like "Gender Queer" multiple awards, expressly for the purpose of popularizing them for further spread to even more kids.

American Library Association. “Gender Queer: A Memoir | Awards & Grants,” February 4, 2020. https://www.ala.org/awardsgrants/gender-queer-memoir.

American Library Association. “2020 Alex Awards | Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA),” January 25, 2021. https://www.ala.org/yalsa/2020-alex-awards.

"The books are being objected to without people even reading them, and the objections come in the forms of random passages that are taken completely out of context and read aloud at board meetings for the purpose of manufacturing outrage."  This statement is deceptively deceptive.  A liar's lie.  First, challenges made on books never read are almost always rejected and I advise everyone to read completely any book they wish to challenge.  So that's a fluff statement.

The deep deception comes from her next phrase, "objections come in the forms of random passages that are taken completely out of context and read aloud at board meetings for the purpose of manufacturing outrage."  Do you see the deception?  No, you don't.  That's how good this lie is.  When she says,"completely out of context," that's the lie.  See it yet?  No?  She is an excellent liar.

When she says, "completely out of context," she's talking about the 1973 US Supreme Court case that ruled obscenity is to be judged "as a whole" and not out of context.  That's a liar's lie.  Why?  Because that case holds no sway over school library cases.  None.  It's the 1982 case that controls and that allows for immediate removal of educationally unsuitable and pervasively vulgar material.  So "completely out of context" is irrelevant.  That 1973 case is irrelevant.  Her statement is deceptively deceptive.  It's a liar's lie.  You didn't even notice it, it was so good.  Read more about this in detail here:

Kleinman, Dan. “Details on Stopping Indoctrination in Schools and Libraries: Guide for Parents and Legislators on Obscenity, Drag Queen Story Hour, 1619 Project, Etc.” SafeLibraries® (blog), January 28, 2023. https://safelibraries.blogspot.com/2023/01/details-on-stopping-indoctrination.html.

Martha Hickson's lies are so good—and when she appeared in Roxbury the school board voted to keep "Gender Queer"—they remind me of the lyrics to the Billy Joel song called "Stiletto," and she travels from library to library giving advice on how to "hammer that message home":

Joel, Billy. “Stiletto.” Billy Joel Official Site, October 12, 1978. https://www.billyjoel.com/song/stiletto-3/.

And, "purpose of manufacturing outrage"?  Really?  Parents nationwide speaking out about the pervasively vulgar books and reading them and getting kicked out of school board meetings for doing so, all because American Library Association has complete control over school libraries, that's all for the "purpose of manufacturing outrage."  All these people at once decided to "manufacture outrage"?  What?  They aren't actually outraged?  It's just "manufactured"?  Wow.  The state governors speaking out about school books and the s3xualization of children, all just "manufactured"?  Again, school librarians put the lie in librarian.

The school librarian is then asked about the $10,000 award given her by the American Library Association.  For librarians, lying pays and to hell with the school children.  Martha doesn't skip a beat and goes right into the propaganda, here supporting the "Right to Read Act," that is intended to address "the issue of the right to read" educationally unsuitable and pervasively vulgar books in schools and to assist librarians who have "experienced personal attacks to reputation and integrity, and ... have fought for the right to read."  So Martha is right on message for the American Library Association's efforts to pass legislation nationwide to codify its "Library Bill of Rights."  No wonder Martha's winning multiple awards from ALA. 

By the way, speaking of "personal attacks to reputation and integrity," the school librarians bring that on themselves with actions like this peacock display from Roxana Caivano and her husband/attorney at a school board meeting in Roxbury, NJ:


Finally the interview ends and Martha says, "Oh, you're welcome," only the second sentence besides the first that doesn't comprise deception and lies.

School boards: You now know school librarian Martha Hickson is a deceptive liar, and all for the purpose of s3xualixing more school children.  Look, I met her.  She is very nice personally.  But what she is doing to communities and especially their children is very harmful.

Where do all of these lies lead?  To political action to solidify a school librarian's ability to s3xualize more children and to enshrine American Library Association's s3xualizing "Library Bill of Rights" into law, such as in New Jersey.  As you listen to these politicians, hear the echo of the lies Martha Hickson tells as they are essentially the same:


All these lies, from the school librarian, the politicians, and the media comes from a central source, namely, the American Library Association and its new effort called Unite Against Book Bans.  It created UABB in response to parents getting "Gender Queer" pulled from so many schools using that 1982 US Supreme Court case.  Read about it here, and listing the lies contained therein would take many more posts, so I'll quit for now, just know every single sentence is either false or deceptive, including the poll:

American Library Association. “Unite Against Book Bans.” Accessed May 30, 2023. https://uniteagainstbookbans.org/.

So the title of this piece is, "School Librarians: Martha Hickson Putting the Lie in Librarian."  I hope I adequately explained exactly what's going on and how and why she's putting the lie in librarian.  If not, I'll be writing more about Martha Hickson, this time exposing each and every step she trains school librarians to take to keep the educationally unsuitable and pervasively vulgar material flowing to children in schools.  Even if she's nice when you meet her.  

The above is my opinion, like all my posts.  But I provide reliable sources to back up my opinions so you can judge for yourselves.



NOTE ADDED 3 JUNE 2023:

Martha Hickson is such an expert at lying that she has been awarded by the New Jersey Library Association as the "Librarian of the Year"!  School librarians s3xualizing school child pays! @Sassy_Librarian!  So sassy!



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Location: North Hunterdon-Voorhees Regional School District, NJ, USA

Friday, August 3, 2018

Twitter Censorship Enables Harm; Librarians Use Heckler's Veto for Censorship

SafeLibraries is shadow banned at Twitter as a direct result of librarians using the heckler's veto to silence me for exposing the harms of the American Library Association [ALA].  They publicly and falsely attack me and call for other librarians to block me on Twitter.  Perhaps hundreds do.  The result is Twitter algorithms have completely silenced me unless someone goes directly to my account.  I'm shadow banned.

There is no way for me to explain to Twitter that I have been the victim of a concerted censorship effort by librarians.  As a result, literally the only voice speaking out for an end to the sexual harassment of librarians by library patrons viewing Internet pornography is silenced.  Twitter is silencing that voice.  The attacks, even those amounting to defamation per se, are never blocked by Twitter.

Twitter Is Shadow Banning How ALA Harms Communities

So we understand what Twitter is silencing, here are some of the harms of ALA that I expose:
Bittman: "Looks at him, this fruit is blocking me."



Years of Heckler's Veto and Blocks by Librarians Lead to Twitter Shadow Ban

Because I expose those harms and name ALA as the source, some librarians attack me.  Here are some of the tweets that defame me and that call for me to be blocked by other librarians.  Some mock my race, some mock my assumed religionKnow that I was a volunteer librarian for two years, I am seeking to stop sexual harassment of librarians, I have never "doxxed" anyone—reporting unprofessional behavior like defamation is not doxxing, and I am not "anti-porn," rather I oppose how ALA misleads communities into harming themselves (and sex trafficking victims) by ignoring the law and legal precedent to advise the opposite.

There's a long list here to show the long-term effort to defame me and to get those hundreds of librarians to block me, and they do, that Twitter apparently then used for its shadow ban, and these are just some of the worst instances:
  • @MagpieLibrarian 31 Jul 2018 - I highly recommend blocking Dan Kleinman/Safe Libraries guy as he is known to harass women+dox ppl. #critlib https://twitter.com/MagpieLibrarian/status/1024462287271284738
  • @MagpieLibrarian 31 Jul 2018 - Dan Kleinman is RT-ing a lot of you, trying to stir up a fight, so if you haven't blocked, I'd recommend it. #critlib https://twitter.com/MagpieLibrarian/status/1024480599564853249
  • @MagpieLibrarian 31 Jul 2018 - Don't interact with Dan Kleinman. #critlib
  • https://twitter.com/MagpieLibrarian/status/1024473840402018304
  • @MagpieLibrarian 31 Jul 2018 - Remember that Dan Kleinman isn't a librarian, has never worked in a library, harasses women+doxxes library workers. #critlib https://twitter.com/MagpieLibrarian/status/1024466852687302657
  • @MagpieLibrarian 31 Jul 2018 - Do not interact with Dan Kleinman. Do not interact with Dan Kleinman. Do not interact with Dan Kleinman. Do not interact with Dan Kleinman. Do not interact with Dan Kleinman. Do not interact with Dan Kleinman. https://twitter.com/MagpieLibrarian/status/1024463008184066050
  • @MagpieLibrarian 16 Jul 2018 - Replying to @ReadingDanger - Dan Kleinman is a homophobe, transphobe, and all around nightmare. Doesn't want books about queer ppl in libraries, unless the books talk about queer ppl going to hell. Porn is bad, Nazis good. He's repulsive. https://twitter.com/MagpieLibrarian/status/1018867242501632002
  • @MagpieLibrarian 15 Jul 2018 - Hey @OIF, a good way to know that you're on the wrong side of history is when Dan Kleinman, aka the anti-porn but pro-hate group guy, is on your side. https://twitter.com/MagpieLibrarian/status/1018648339687051264
  • @MagpieLibrarian 28 Aug 2017 - Replying to @alphabeticallie @GaylePitman @robin_stevenson - I used to have a Tumblr called The Same Picture of Dan Kleinman Every Day but I got bored. https://twitter.com/MagpieLibrarian/status/902304383387541504
  • @MagpieLibrarian 28 Aug 2017 - Replying to @alphabeticallie - Dan Kleinman supports a hate group. I assume his last name is Jewish. https://twitter.com/MagpieLibrarian/status/902262659768311808
  • @jaslar 28 Jun 2016 - ALA in Orlando: blood drives, school supplies, many contributions. We stand by the victims, we offer aid. @Safelibraries does ... nothing. https://twitter.com/jaslar/status/747796117308465152
James LaRue is the head of ALA's Office for Intellectual Freedom
and the Freedom to Read Foundation
  • @wawoodworth - 1 Sep 2015 - When I feel bad about my life I recall that Concern Troll has a saved search for "library porn" that he checks daily and I feel much better. https://twitter.com/wawoodworth/status/638747385703833604
  • @MagpieLibrarian 6 Aug 2015 - .@Wicholas Dan Kleinman is a pox. If he's Jewish, it is my obligation to apologize for him. https://twitter.com/MagpieLibrarian/status/629339039007682560
  • @meghancnyc 13 Jan 2015 - Replying to @MagpieLibrarian - @MagpieLibrarian I can't be Dan Kleinman because I'm not a repressed virgin with halitosis. https://twitter.com/meghancnyc/status/555120537509584896
  • @MagpieLibrarian 8 Jan 2015 - Eat a bag of dicks, Safe Libraries guy. https://twitter.com/MagpieLibrarian/status/553239122761232384
  • @MagpieLibrarian 8 Jan 2015 - Safe Libraries guy is a straight up homophobe and has no say in the world of libraries. He's a massive tool+troll. BLOCK HIM. #teamharpy https://twitter.com/MagpieLibrarian/status/553237289347059713
  • @MagpieLibrarian 8 Jan 2015 - Hi, when it comes #teamharpy: Unsolicited advice. Don't engage w/Safe Libraries guy. He's not a librarian, he hates us. He has an agenda. https://twitter.com/MagpieLibrarian/status/553237100154585088
  • @MagpieLibrarian 1 Jan 2014 - Replying to @mciszek - @mciszek Or to be clearer of what you had in mind, or to say you learned something. Once douche-o SafeLibraries was on Manley's side... https://twitter.com/MagpieLibrarian/status/418453075838263296
  • @MagpieLibrarian 16 Dec 2014 - If you want2link 2 the 200 libs to follow list, consider using a Do Not Link until #4 + Safe Libraries are taken off: donotlink.com/cx5b https://twitter.com/MagpieLibrarian/status/544882984588148738
  • @MagpieLibrarian 16 Dec 2014 - My comment onthe list: Thanks4including me but being on a list w/ #4+SafeLibraries man who spends his time harassing librarians is troubling https://twitter.com/MagpieLibrarian/status/544882338333982720
  • @MagpieLibrarian 16 Dec 2014 - And if any1 believes Kleinman is an LGBTQ ally check out his comments here: https://magpielibrarian.wordpress.com/2013/02/17/my-first-topic-request-does-god-love-michaels-two-daddies/ https://twitter.com/MagpieLibrarian/status/544906965689049088
  • @MagpieLibrarian 2 Dec 2014 - OK, everybody who can, donate to this, ESPECIALLY if you're sick of Dan Kleinman, that Safe Libraries jackass: http://www.gofundme.com/hzjwy8 https://twitter.com/MagpieLibrarian/status/539936346198900736
  • @MagpieLibrarian 2 Dec 2014 - If you didn't know, our asshole buddy, Dan Kleinman aka #SafeLibaries guy, is being sued. http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/11/science-hating-homeschool-mom-sued-for-defamation-in-ongoing-library-prn-flap/ https://twitter.com/MagpieLibrarian/status/539934626978873346
  • @MagpieLibrarian 2 Dec 2014 - One of my VERY favorite Safe Libraries comments, right before I blocked his ass for forever and eternity: https://twitter.com/MagpieLibrarian/status/539891625200459776
  • @MagpieLibrarian 2 Dec 2014 - I KNOW it's tempting to fight with Safe Libraries guy. I know. I used to. He's not smart or informed. He's just a loud, white, idiot. https://twitter.com/MagpieLibrarian/status/539890174503976960
  • @ThePinakes 2 Jul 2014 - @olinj @jacobsberg Whoa! I didn't even notice a troll on our hash tag. Was it ... well, I don't want to attract his attention - s. l. guy?@MagpieLibrarian https://twitter.com/ThePinakes/status/484454064470495232
  • @MagpieLibrarian 6 Oct 2014 - THE ONLY PERSON WHO HAS LIKED MY MOST RECENT BLOG POST IS CRAZY ASS CREEPY SAFE LIBRARIES GUY          https://twitter.com/MagpieLibrarian/status/519142762604953601
  • @wawoodworth - 21 Apr 2014 - Replying to @dupuisj - @dupuisj @LibrarianRy @rdlankes Probably. As soon as Dan "Concern Troll" Kleinman shows up, you know it's going to get funky. https://twitter.com/wawoodworth/status/458356798140194816
  • @MagpieLibrarian 31 Dec 2013 - The Safe Libraries Schmo is a fan of WillManley's blog: You are the last outpost for free speech within librarianship" STOP! STOP! MY SIDES!@MagpieLibrarian https://twitter.com/MagpieLibrarian/status/418073194868637696
  • @MagpieLibrarian 30 Oct 2013 - Safe libraries dude smells like Swiss Cheese https://twitter.com/MagpieLibrarian/status/395711889860096000
  • @wawoodworth - 27 Jul 2012 - Oh, @safelibraries, only a schmuck like you would equate privacy screens as being simply for porn viewing. Thanks for the RT. https://twitter.com/wawoodworth/status/228961456941563904
  • @MagpieLibrarian 15 Feb 2012 - Replying to @SafeLibraries - @SafeLibraries Oh honey. I'm a librarian in Brooklyn. I'm definitely not scared of you. https://twitter.com/MagpieLibrarian/status/169984925112614913
By the way, even a few libraries block me on Twitter, something that may be illegal, and one reversed its ban after I simply asked (a friend of @MagpieLibrarian simply applied the block because he controlled the library's Twitter account; the director reversed that once she learned of the situation).  Those that block me are usually the ones that have committed various offenses against their communities and even against the United States of America.  Definitely a number of ALA leaders block me, including ALA Presidents and, oddly, the head of the Office for Intellectual Freedom.  When you're taking flak, that means you're over the target.

Effects of Twitter Shadow Ban and Search Ban

What are the effects of the shadow ban by Twitter? For one thing I lost a lot of followers.  I had about 2620 on 5 July 2018, and now on 3 August 2018 I have 2557, or a loss of over 60.  Hardly anyone follows me any more—because they don't see me anymore.  But this is the least of the problem.

You cannot find me in a search, meaning my name will not be autosuggested.  You have to know it and type it directly into the search box.  I see it when I'm logged in and I search, but no one else sees it.  Go ahead and try it for yourselves.  Search for @SafeLibraries.  It's not there.

I also learned that when I use hashtags, no one sees my tweets containing those hashtags.  This means Twitter is useless for speaking publicly as it now only allows me to read but not respond to what others say in a manner that uses hashtags, the leading way to be heard.  I cannot say #ShadowBanning, for example, or rather I can, but Twitter will suppress my tweet when people search for that tag.

For example, the other day I participated in a conversation at the hashtag #critlib.  Only I didn't realize I was really not participating because Twitter took that ability away from me.  No one saw my comments.  I didn't realize this so I was wasting my time because of Twitter, the obvious effect being to discourage me from exercising further First Amendment rights to free speech since they would only come to naught.  If I looked at the #critlib tweets, I could see mine.  But if other people looked, my tweets were excluded.  It's likely why no one responded to me as they did on that hashtag in the past before I was shadow banned.  Shadow banned really means banned, nothing shadow about it.

Take a look yourselves to see how I am excluded from #critlib chat: https://twitter.com/hashtag/critlib?src=hash even though the librarian harassing me for over five years and complaining about my assumed race and assumed religion and assumed job has comments there responding to me and furthering Twitter's censorship, like this one:

Examples of What Twitter Banned

Here are some of the tweets that I wrote that no one saw during the conversation and no one can now see that had been and remain excluded as a result of Twitter's censorship.  In response to #critlib questions I raised legitimate issues that no one saw.  Here they are:
So those tweets are literally made invisible by Twitter, even during the ongoing #critlib discussion, even by the very people viewing the #critlib hashtag.

Lastly, to tweet about this publication, "Twitter Censorship via Librarians Enables Harm," hashtags for me are now useless.  I cannot say #ShadowBanning, for example.  I'll have to directly tag people.  It's speech censorship and denial of press freedom pure and simple.  And I am the only press reporting on how ALA harms communities.  And it's done by Twitter, at the hands of a mob of harassers who seek to silence my advocacy about how communities can protect themselves from the many harms caused by ALA.

I'll Join Legal Action Taken Against Twitter

So, in summary, what we have here is Twitter censorship, via librarians, where both the librarians AND Twitter enable the harms of the American Library Association listed above by blocking one of the few voices speaking out against them.

And Twitter provides no means to address the censorship which it should not even do in the first place.

I am going to make an effort to join any legal action against Twitter.  Congressmen Devin Nunes and Matt Gaetz, for example, are taking legal action.
Hat tip to Kevin DuJan @HillBuzz for the idea to contact Devin Nunes and Matt Gaetz.  Mr. DuJan is my cowriter with me on this publication for a good reason.  And he's the "gay" and the "fruit" that the library employees maligned and that ALA blocked from an open public meeting celebrating the awarding of an "intellectual freedom" award to a library (Orland Park Public Library) that facilitated child pornography viewing by following ALA guidance, and was protected by ALA's direct intervention.

Summary - Twitter Banning Produces Loss of Press Freedom to Advise on Governmental Actions

Twitter censorship has taken away my audience, but more importantly, it has taken away the public's opportunity to learn how their governments, as expressed in libraries by legislatively-constituted library boards, have been subverted toward doing the public harm and exposing library employees to sexual harassment.  No one can seek redress of their government under the First Amendment, at least on the issue of the harm enabled by ALA-recommended lawlessness in public schools and libraries, if my First Amendment rights are being trampled by Twitter.

Times Up doesn't apply to librarians if the one voice speaking out about Me Too librarians has been silenced by Twitter.



NOTE ADDED 9 AUGUST 2018:

As of today it appears I am NO LONGER SHADOW BANNED.

That doesn't mean the underlying problem at Twitter has been resolved; I feel my writing this publication and spreading word about it has resulted in the lifting of the ban.

http://shadowban.eu

Meanwhile, the racist school librarian (working @cgps) who largely started all this years ago is still being racist and now misandristic, here against James LaRue of the ALA's Office for Intellectual Freedom:

"I'd like to add 'edgelord white OIF bros' to the nice white lady demographic."

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Thursday, April 26, 2018

Librarians Ordered to Destroy Public Documents Revealing Homophobia at American Library Association and Crime in Libraries

Librarians were ordered to destroy documents revealing both homophobia at the American Library Association and crime in public libraries, especially the viewing of child p0rnography.

The evidence is an email to libraries throughout Illinois by Deborah Caldwell-Stone, Esq., the Deputy Director of the ALA's Office for Intellectual Freedom.  This order to destroy documents is out and open incitement to violate various open government laws, and to cover up ALA's "exposure."  And almost everyone complied, but not all.

That this incitement was done knowingly and purposefully is evident from the lawyer's use of her private email address instead of her ALA email address, similar to the actions of former EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson, a.k.a. "Richard Windsor."

And all to hide her Office's homophobia and ALA's ordering librarians to destroy evidence of crime in libraries and calls not to record such evidence in the first place.  This is documented in a frightened librarian's email I published at "Brave Librarian Speaks Out as ALA Facilitates CHILD P[]rn."  She revealed, among other shocking things, "Blondie said that Orland was focusing only on you and ignoring your friend because he is gay and it gets messy to attack a gay guy. .... I also remember that a jab was made at you ... that you should not be hanging out all day with a gay guy with your kids anyway."  To me, those are homophobic statements, particularly the latter.  ALA's Deborah Caldwell-Stone, Esq., then rehired this homophobic trainer for more of the same training.  (The trainer dropped the gig when this was exposed.)  That's one more thing that makes ALA homophobic—no one who isn't homophobic knowingly hires homophobic trainers who teach homophobia—but ALA did.

Of possible interest, the trainer went on to sue me twice in federal court, losing both times, and a settlement offer was made that the case would be dropped if I censored this publication revealing ALA's homophobia: "Gay Hate @ Your Library."  So go read what ALA's censorship police tried to censor about themselves via its homophobic proxy.

Below is a series of my messages on this topic, followed by the actual text of the damning email from ALA's lawyer:





Here is the actual email from Deborah Caldwell-Stone, Esq., Deputy Director of American Library Association's "Office for Intellectual Freedom" and, when you read the email by "dcs," you'll know why I put quotation marks around "Office for Intellectual Freedom" (emphasis added):


Subject: URGENT -­ must delete all documents related to 17 Dec crisis communications workshop
Date: Friday, April 4, 2014 at 4:46:24 PM Central Daylight Time
From: dcs47@hushmail.com
To: nbennyhoff@illinoisheartland.org

[NOTE: BCCs are not shown, but this document was received in response to a FOIA request for emails sent to Orland Park Public Library, Orland Park, IL, [OPPL]’s director Mary Weimar and OPPL’s public relations employee Bridget Bittman]

In case you are not yet aware there is a situation where we have exposure related to the 17 Dec crisis communications workshop facilitated by RAILS. We are under scrutiny and FOIA requests went out this morning fishing for documents and video. Remove these from your servers today and destroy hard copies. This is an attempt by two individuals to obtain privileged information from the event. It does not appear this is much more than a hunch on the part of requesters but we should not retain any materials from the event as a precaution. As this was a candid and private function not meant for the public it would be best if we purge any records any of us have related to the event. Taking parts of discussion out of context would be harmful so we cannot allow anything from 17 Dec to be produced in response to FOIA. It is advisable to be proactive here and get ahead of this before the individuals gain traction. The OPPL has already been served with a FOIA and it appears the requesters are working down a list and serving the rest of us. These are the same two individuals who have been causing problems since October. They will make hay out of anything they obtain. Do not facilitate this in any way. Leslie at IHLS and Brian at RAILS should run point on deleting all materials before FOIAs are served. There is still time to get ahead of this if we act today. Deny, delete, defend. - dcs


The above is based in part on work I originally published in 2015 as "Deny, Delete, Defend; American Library Association Orders Public Librarians To Destroy Public Documents To Preclude Public Disclosure of its 'Exposure'" on Storify which has since announced it is closing and removing all content.  Hence the need to record this information here.

And ALA has yet to suffer any consequences for its own homophobia, its hiding its own homophobia, and calling for library crimes to be hidden from the public and for whistleblowers to be attacked verbally and financially, which actually happened to me.

The above is all my opinion, as usual, but backed up with evidence anyone can see.

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