{"id":25977,"date":"2009-02-07T10:49:30","date_gmt":"2009-02-07T10:49:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2009\/02\/07\/book-banning-in-florida\/"},"modified":"2009-02-07T10:49:30","modified_gmt":"2009-02-07T10:49:30","slug":"book-banning-in-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/07\/book-banning-in-florida\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Banning in Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Miami school officials can remove from library shelves a book about Cuba that depicts smiling children in communist uniforms but avoids mention of problems in the country, a federal appeals court ruled Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said the Miami-Dade County School District wouldn&#8217;t be infringing freedom of speech rights by removing 49 copies of &#8220;Vamos a Cuba&#8221; and its English-language version, &#8220;A Visit to Cuba,&#8221; from its libraries. The board has argued that the books, for children ages 5 to 8, present an inaccurate view of life in Cuba.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>.. so, the court decides the accuracy (value? legitimacy? truthiness?) of the contents of an arbitrary book AND these values are determined to be the determining factor in whether or not a book should be in a library?    Holy crap.<\/p>\n<p>So what about all the other books in the library?<\/p>\n<p>Hat tip CMF<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Miami school officials can remove from library shelves a book about Cuba that depicts smiling children in communist uniforms but avoids mention of problems in the country, a federal appeals court ruled Thursday. The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said the Miami-Dade County School District wouldn&#8217;t be infringing freedom of speech rights by removing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/07\/book-banning-in-florida\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Book Banning in Florida<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-6KZ","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25977"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25977\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}