Nathan K.

This company engages in intellectual censorship. Although attempting the noble aim of preventing potentially harmful or insensitive content to be sold on its site, this company errs on the side of thoughtless suppression and censorship. This should concern all educators, as censorship has always been framed as a measure to "protect societal norms." In this case, the company zealously attempts to uphold their ideas about "social justice" by simply suspending any content at all that contains red flag terms. As an example, a lesson which asked students to read an excerpt from Gandhi's Hind Swaraj (one student taking role of reporter and one editor "Gandhi" was described as "trivializing trauma of imperialism by asking students to role play as "victims." Not only does this show the ignorance of TpT to history, but also how superficial their efforts are to achieve social justice at the cost of draconian suppression of content.