The Knox County school district first deemed “Roots” to be in violation of the state’s Age-Appropriate Materials Act. The Knox

Interesting question: Has Dan Williams, Alberta’s minister of municipal affairs and de facto chief censor, ever been inside a public library? If he ever had been, he’d know perfectly well that children are not exposed to pornography in Alberta public libraries – unlike, say, on daddy’s smart phone. “There is absolutely no evidence for the […]

In one of the documents seen by Index, the school admits that the categorisations of the books were written using AI, writing: “Although the categorisation was generated using AI, I consider this classification to be broadly accurate.”

Louis Coiffait-Gunn, CEO of CILIP, told Index that he was deeply concerned about a few school leaders using these methods to work out what is acceptable or…