Claire Kirch, Publishers Weekly; Publishers Call Out Target for 'Censoring' Book Descriptions
"According to Ohio State University Press director Tony Sanfilippo,
Target’s move might be a well-meaning policy gone awry. “I understand
that they might want to avoid controversy. But if they want to keep
Nazis off their site, or Nazi-themed products out of their search
results, there are ways of doing that that don’t censor. If you can’t
say 'Nazi,' you can’t stop Nazis. And if you can’t search for books
about the trans community and trans issues, your search engine and your
corporate philosophy are morally flawed.""
Ethically-tangled aspects of 21st century societies and cultures. In the vein of Charles Darwin’s 1859 “entangled bank” metaphor—a complex and evolving digital ecosystem of difference and dependence, where humans, technologies, ethics, law, policy, data, and information converge and diverge. Kip Currier, PhD, JD
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Publishers Call Out Target for 'Censoring' Book Descriptions; Publishers Weekly, September 13, 2018
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