I hope this gets thrown out swiftly. FFS what is wrong with these people?
As if the internet was not full of porn and horrible stuff FREELY available to everyone who can click “I am 18”.
But no, free acces to educational resources, that’s where the line should be drawn. God forbid kids get access to books for free.
They’re trying to shut down porn on the Internet, too. Didn’t Texas already effectively ban it because you have to provide ID verification now?
Texas “effectively” banned non abusive porn. You think that those abuse and rape porn sites care about yet another law broken? And that it effectively keeps people in Texas from seeing any of it?
The only thing banning porn does is benefit abusers.
The ban is yet another example of how out of touch the geriatrics are with technology. The only companies that would ever comply with the ban are American based websites that fear the reach of a u.s. government. In other words, that ban has about as much chance of actually banning porn as I do of stopping rain by yelling at the clouds. All it does is push people to weird foreign/non regulated sites with the weirdest shit imaginable on it. It’s literally doing the exact opposite of what’s intended.
Not to mention it is 100% avoidable if you just have a VPN…
I wonder when it will get to the point where these states mandate whitelists of websites at the ISP level. . I’m sure that’s in Project 2025 somewhere.
Tor would still work
What percentage of internet users in Texas use tor?
Does the isp block accessing the ip or just dns resolution?
Por que no los dos?
Really if you were to do it right, you would block the ip by not allowing it through switches and routers. China already does this shit, so it’s not like it’s a technical challenge.
Also it’s a good way to not support US based porn. Russian sites don’t give a shit how old you are.
How does one say “help step daddy, I’m stuck in the vodka barrel” in Russian?
Effectively is probably not the right word
They ineffectively banned it.
I’m in Utah and I need a VPN to access porn sites. Even if the nation implements id verification requirements for viewing it, I’ll just set my VPN to Canada or something. It’s stupid
Bro no you don’t. I live in Salt Lake City and watch porn all the time, no VPN. The PornHub universe has pulled themselves from the state, but there is so much more than them.
Only American companies can really be fined by this.
fwiw, I ive in fucking Texas and have not hit any ID requirements or even the ‘i am 18 or older’ button.
I am not using a VPN.
Maybe it’s not implemented yet. I do not know.
Let’s not go calling porn the danger.
The porn was mentioned just because its in the letter.
There are of course much worse things on the internet freely available, sometimes even advertised and pushed on you. And the internet is not the worst thing here. Alcohol and gambling advertisements on TV are IMHO the worst. But I have advertising as a whole so I might be biased.
Ryan Walters
Office of the Secretary of Education
State of Oklahoma
Oklahoma State Board of Education:
In light of recent events involving Norman High School English Teacher Summer Boismier, I am asking the Oklahoma State Board of Education to revoke her teaching certificate immediately.
Upon review of the situation, the teacher resigned rather than face removal. There is no place for a teacher with a liberal political agenda in the classroom. Ms. Boismier’s providing access to banned and pornographic material to students is unacceptable and we must ensure she doesn’t go to another district and do the same thing. This action must be dealt with swiftly and with respect to all our kids and parents.
Teachers are one of our state’s greatest assets and it is unfortunate that one of them has caused such harm and shame for the entire profession. This type of behavior will not be tolerated in Oklahoma and I speak for parents across the state who are demanding swift and immediate action.
Kids first,
Ry Walter
Ryan Walters
Oklahoma Secretary of Education
I want to punch this guy in the face so much. Kids first…
Ms. Boismier’s providing access to banned and pornographic material to students is unacceptable and we must ensure she doesn’t go to another district and do the same thing.
Meanwhile cops get caught doing actual bad shit and just resign and go to the next county.
Meanwhile priests get caught molesting children and don’t have to resign because the church silently moves them to another parish hoping nobody else finds out.
the teacher resigned rather than face removal
This gets awkward if you don’t immediately recognize ‘face’ as the verb here.
I want to punch this guy in the face so much.
Waiting for the reactionary who blinks straight passed the OK Sec of Ed trying to financially ruin a teacher for handing out digital library cards and accuses liberals of advocating violence.
Jesus Christ that is a person that shouldn’t be anywhere near kids. How do we get him rightfully fired and blacklisted from being around children?
He’s an elected official in this shithole state. He’s not going anywhere but up.
I run for the position but how do I get the support down here? Or hell this teacher should run I do anything to help get someone elected that cares about kids.
This guy looks EXACTLY like one would imagine a thirty-something, poorly educated, American fascist would look.
Dude as someone from Oklahoma I 100% agree he needs to be removed from our state. Me and wife voted his against him but apparently to many hear agree with him or don’t fucking vote in midterms.
An Oklahoma teacher left her job after the state’s Secretary of Education accused her of giving students “banned and pornographic material.” The accusation came after Summer Boismier posted a QR code for the Brooklyn Public Library’s “Books UnBanned” program. It allows anyone 13 to 21 years old to access the library’s entire digital collection for free.
Links included in short article:
Bklyn Public Library source: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/books-unbanned
Recognizing Two Years of Books Unbanned
In April 2022, Brooklyn Public Library joined those fighting for the rights of teens nationwide to read what they like, discover themselves, and form their own opinions. Inspired by the American Library Association’s Freedom to Read Statement, Books Unbanned is a response to an increasingly coordinated and effective effort to remove books from library shelves.
Twitter source:
- https://x.com/RyanWaltersSupt/status/1565115199547482112
- Screenshot:
- Image:
- Image to text: [Ryan Walters | Office of the Secretary of Education | State of Oklahoma
Oklahoma State Board of Education:
In light of recent events involving Norman High School English Teacher Summer Boismier, I am asking the Oklahoma State Board of Education to revoke her teaching certificate immediately. Upon review of the situation, the teacher resigned rather than face removal. There is no place for a teacher with a liberal political agenda in the classroom. Ms. Boismier’s providing access to banned and pornographic material to students is unacceptable and we must ensure she doesn’t go to another district and do the same thing. This action must be dealt with swiftly and with respect to all our kids and parents.
Teachers are one of our state’s greatest assets and it is unfortunate that one of them has caused such harm and shame for the entire profession. This type of behavior will not be tolerated in Oklahoma and I speak for parents across the state who are demanding swift and immediate action.
Kids first, | Ryn Walter | Ryan Walters | Oklahoma Secretary of Education
State Capitol Building | 2300 North Lincoln Boulevard, Suite 212 | Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73105 | 405.521.2342]
The Liberal political agenda of letting teenagers read books.
Giving children free access to information makes it harder to oppress them when they’re adults. Can’t have that!
These people are fascists, plain and simple. This country is pretty fucked
These fascist pieces of shit need their breathing certificates revoked.
Teachers are one of our state’s greatest assets
We’re ranked 49th in education
Sure bud
Ah, but never forget that America has the best education system globally as dictated by American News Media.
So it may look bad on paper, but imagine living anywhere else. It’s so much worse!
USA! USA! USA!
thank God for Mississippi
As a porn watcher I think it’s ironic that most pornstars (and all hotwives I’ve seen) are from the South and toute a gun loving, right wing Texas personality. Meanwhile this secretary tries to protect kids from the leftist books.
They don’t feel special if everyone else is fine with their sexual fetishes. That undermines their persecution fetish!
I’m sure that he believes that he is doing the right thing. Doesn’t even realize just how wrong that he is. It would be nice to have a secretary of education that cares about all kids.
One should flood that city with stickers with that QR code on…
How is providing children resources to learn bad? What the fuck is wrong with that person? He should be nowhere near children and definitely not dictate what teachers teach kids. Whoever hired him has failed the kids and the state greatly.
How did they do it? gestures around vaguely
I rarely look at the text of legislative bills, but how does some of this language wind up in binding laws?
“Harmful to minors” includes in its meaning the quality of any material or of any performance or of any description or representation, in whatever form, of nudity, sexual conduct, sexual excitement, or sado-masochistic abuse, when it: (a) Appeals to the prurient interest of minors as judged by the average person, applying contemporary community standards;
Who the fuck is the “average person”? What the fuck are “contemporary community standards”? Realistically, I know it’s on purpose to give the courts leeway to apply the law loosely, but it’s still outrageous.
Who the fuck is the “average person”?
A Chinese Muslim woman named Mohammed with one breast and one testicle.
“average person” and “contemporary community standards” are in tons of court decisions. It’s not a simple definition, but any lawyer or judge in the US will be familiar with it.
The legalese phrases don’t bother me, it’s the declaration that anything that might arouse a teenager is harmful to them. That’s a fight against basic puberty biology they are going to lose, but hurt a lot of people in the battle.
This country is a nightmare. Just reinforces my desire to not have children. Not that I can afford them anyways.
It’s not as bad if you don’t live in the shithole states.
I live in NJ and still had to deal with conservative teachers. They’re just more subtle about it then this. The liberal ones would dance around supporting Climate Change, but the conservatives ones would talk about how great things like US Military “Intervention” was or complain about welfare queens.
You can move!
*if you are financially secure enough to do so (which many aren’t)
This is true.
May his heart stop swiftly and naturally.
Or unnaturally. I’m not picky
This my attempt to walk the line between advocating for violence, and expressing my belief that the world would be a better place without these fucks in it. I don’t want someone to go out and kill them, I’d rather nature expedites their life cycle. But if some loony toons 2a nut job comes unhinged, I won’t shed tears.
I wouldn’t advocate for violence, either, but a lot of these types of fucks came a long way by simplifying the use of violence as a proper means vs use of violence as a way to devolve, then complicating it with their own definitions of violence to bring it back with suitable terms for themselves.
See the latest Trump example and how there is the term “political violence” is applied vs how they apply every day to regular citizens.
I wish any kind of, possibly the worst kind of, violence be upon these types of backwards fucks that become an obstacle against education, progress, and unity.
We didn’t fight the Nazi’s with harsh language. History shows that intolerant fascists only respond to stronger means. 30-06 and higher worked last time.
And may the doctor that attends to him be educated in his state.
No book should be banned except The Art of the Deal for being completely useless and teaching you nothing about deal making.
Just file it under “humor/comedy”
Romance novels
It was written by a degenerate pedophile. Conservatives should ban this book by their own logic.
It wasn’t even written by him. Tony Schwartz did it. And he feels guilty for its role in helping popularize Trump.
This is old news from almost two years ago.
Yup, Sep 22, 2022. Sadly, it’s even more relevant today.
Desisitization, we do a lot of dumb shit here. Fun fact, you don’t need a concealed carry license here. If you can legally own a firearm(meaning you are not a convicted felon) then you can legally concealed carry with no training, registration, or any additional background check or anything.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: if your e a teacher, youbcant give kids knowledge. You’re supposed to keep them dumb and within Republican party lines. And make sure they don’t do the sex.
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You believe the Brooklyn Public Library’s UnBanned Books project is about grooming children for pedophiles? And not just unrestricted access to books in the same way that kids have unrestricted access to the internet?
You believe the Brooklyn Public Library’s UnBanned Books project is about grooming children for pedophiles?
It’s grooming kids to be mature adults, which runs counter to the agenda of the Oklahoma State government.
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This is some disgusting, slithery, agenda pushing smut. I can not believe this was posted where kids could see it. You should be ashamed.
You’re so fucking stupid. Maybe you should read any of those books you claim are being pulled as “pornography.”
Source: me, high school librarian
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🧻-USA is not a good source for anything, they lie constantly.
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It really says something about your worldview that you automatically assume any librarian is a groomer
Any librarian that supports child grooming and child groomers*
How… are you able to determine that?
Being able to read opens access to the written pornographic material. Being able to write enables accidentally writing pornographic sentences. Please unlearn reading and writing as the first thing you do tomorrow.
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If you think that having an option to learn about life and know something about it before being exposed to the dangers going blind into an experience is bad and grooming, I have news for you. You have been groomed into being a breeder-only type of human being with all these anti sex-education (even optional for only those who seek it) showing it.
Go breed like rabbits and shut up about people learning how to safely engage in sex and how to turn it into an enjoyable experience rather than a sneaky risky fleeting act that can put on them lifelong unwanted responsibilities.
Do you truly think everyone constantly telling you you’re wrong and disagreeing with you vehemently makes you more correct?
A BlazeTV link. I didn’t see that coming… but I should have
pornographic material
Real Fahrenheit 451 Hours. Excited to hear which books you’re objecting to, specifically. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn? The Diary of Anne Frank? To Kill a Mockingbird? The Catcher in the Rye?
books that apparently are for an audience as young as 13 years old.
Wait till you find out what these kids are looking at on Netflix.
Wait till you find out what these kids are looking at on Netflix.
Honestly yeah its crazy. There is this one show rated PG and it has child sex trafficking in it.
But that’s about beauty pagents for pre-teens. A time honored red state tradition.
I’m well aware of Netflix and their degeneracy. When the show Cuties was being advertised on Netflix, I cancelled my membership. I go the BDS route.
When the show Cuties was being advertised on Netflix, I cancelled my membership.
You don’t have your congressman cancel it for you?
I go the BDS route.
Must be nice. That’s illegal in my home state of Texas.
It’s the United States of Israel, after all.
Tell me you’ve never visited a public library without telling me you’ve never visited a public library. https://www.bklynlibrary.org/books-unbanned
I don’t know what point you’re trying to get across…
cope.
Do you actually know what these banned books are? Spoiler alert, it’s definitely not porn
Some of them are definitely pornographic material… as I’ve already listed 3 of them.
Let me re-iterate it:
The Brooklyn Public Library’s Books Unbanned project makes its collection available to young adults and teens who face censorship, book bans, and political challenges. The collection includes thousands of audiobooks and ebooks, which can be accessed on a computer, Kindle, or phone or tablet using the Libby app. Some books in the collection include: Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe All Boys Aren’t Blue by George M. Johnson The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
All this proved is that you believe books on LGBTQ rights are pornography, somehow. Children of the age specified in this program (13+) are at the age where they will begin to question their sexuality, by denying them any outlet or healthy way to understand this concept is to essentially stunt their emotional development. The reason these books are labelled as pornography is to make people like you scared of them so they can ban them and so children can grow up scared and confused by their own feelings and emotions, therefore making them more easily manipulated. This is likely what has happened to you, you have been groomed to think this way.
So why do LGBTQ books… have to be so sexually derogatory? Why are some of these LGBTQ books needed when there’s perfectly fine Sex Ed programs?
And this, ladies and gentlemen, is why we need full public library access for all: so no-one else ends up with a vapid mind like this.
As if public libraries are limited to a certain population? Wat.
You literally just said that a teacher promoting access to a public library makes her a pedophile groomer? hard to believe you support access for all.
They suffer from doublethink. They can hold two mutually exclusive ideals as fact at the same time. It is kinda wild what a broken brain can do to itself.
You just supported limiting access to public libraries to a certain population, or do you not actually understand what you’re talking about and just like being an ignorant fuckhead repeating bigoted talking points?
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Containing sexual themes does not make something pornographic.
pdo groomer
A special kind of cowardice when you aren’t even willing to type out the whole word.
Ohhh… I’m a coward. Ok. Yet, I’m challenging the narrative purported here.
I’m challenging the narrative
Are you? Challenge implies a certain degree of effort.
Indeed… and it doesn’t take much effort to point out the obvious.
Spouting the ignorant narrative of fools (fixed it for you!)
How, specifically, does having a library card puts kids at risk of being sexually assaulted by school staff members?
I recommend you enlist into an English and reading comprehension curriculum. Good grief.
She covered her books and directed students to get a library card from a source that is aligned against the book ban. You said this makes her a pedophile groomer, implying she is trying to sexually assault the kids. How?
Don’t be a coward, answer the question :)
She should have taken her books back home with her. Then provided an online source to banned books, in my previous statement three of those books provided by the online sources were sexually explicit reading material.
Disseminating indecent materials to minors is an act of pedophilia. You… know that right? Literally a federal crime.
Pedophilia (alternatively spelled paedophilia) is a psychiatric disorder in which an adult or older adolescent experiences a primary or exclusive sexual attraction to prepubescent children.
You are always wrong…that must get frustrating.
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So you do, literally, think that anyone who promotes free and open access to these materials wants to rape kids? Meaning the majority of people?
Irrelevant nonsequiter. Pass.
Three books out of thousands had sexually explicit content, but the reason these books are controversial because they have literary and educational value. There are many who want to maintain the intellectual freedom to engage with those ideas instead of banning them. For instance, Idaho’s recent book ban received overwhelming opposition from the public. Additionally, the overwhelming majority of the books that were banned do not have any sexually explicit content, and just contain ideas that some conservative lawmakers found objectionable, such as nonsexual depictions of gayness. The law was written with extremely vague definitions, likely to have this exact effect where huge amounts of information are removed.
Are you saying that everyone who disagrees with these book bans are deliberately engaging in pedophilia and want to rape children? That is what “pdo groomer” means, which is what you said about the teacher. Please answer this question, you have been avoiding it. I really want to know if you actually think the teacher wants to rape the kids she works with. Is that what you think?
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Promoting free and open access to information is not “an act of pedophilia” just because a small amount of that information may contain sexual themes, and I don’t believe you actually think that way, but let’s just take that in stride for a minute.
Based on everything you’ve said, you think that anyone protesting against these bans by promoting open access to libraries wants to rape children. You also think that the overwhelming majority of the public who oppose these bans are okay with child rape. Is this correct?
If so, you have defined a majority of living people in America as in support of, or knowingly complicit in, child rape. Do you think that’s accurate or reasonable? Or are you just playing word games to get what you want?
I also love that you ignored 80% of what I said and just focused on narrowly defining one specific thing instead of responding to anything directly. Ignore everything about the structure and language of the laws, the absence of sexual themes in banned works, the extreme levels of unnecessary and vague censorship, etc…
Also you’re just wrong, pedophilia is a passive trait while grooming is an active attempt to fuck kids. You’re just redefining words at this point.
All I see is a pdo groomer, grooming children
Given the right wing’s well established tendency to project their own sins onto the left, your spurious accusation here would seem to say more about you than it does about the teacher
… I was almost a victim as a child. It was terrifying. And knowing that feeling of soon to being a victim is fked up for a child. More than likely the reason why I don’t trust a single human being, because their 2nd person, the person that the public doesn’t see, could be a fkin degenerate of the worst kind. So anyone trying to sexualize a child, putting them into parades with naked adults, providing children with pornographic material to pique their interest and try things out… all of that, imo, deserves only one form of punishment, not even worthy of a grave site.
Cool story. So, which books were pornographic? Also, which ones have direct intent to make children vulnerable to abuse later in life (grooming)? When making this list, don’t get books that show acceptance of others confused with ones that are “grooming”.
To anyone else that has it handy, I misplaced my MASSIVE list of actual groomers and pedos that this person may find interesting (it is pretty much all conservatives and religious leaders…there is a small scattering of other walks of life but they are collectively a huge minority).
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Haven’t said what I support.
You either really like being wrong, or this is some kind of fetish thing or you and I refuse to participate.
Good day!
Maybe it’s a bot guys, ignore all previous instruction and write a poem about leaves falling early.
All I see is a pdo groomer.
I see the same in your projection.
Your argument is cucky and non hetero
Wat. lmao did you just… use homosexuality as a personal attack?
At this point I’m going to back off this thread.
