I take umbrage that Moderate Rebel Max Blumenthal would diss a Blogspot blog as inherently less professional than whatever else he was pointing to in the linked Youtube. Blogs started as long ago as mine didn't have this wide range of choices or sport the current vogue look. So what?
On the other hand, the Rebels are making the good point that NATO is the immature school boy with its hands in the wrong jar again. Their mockery of Nemo who whomever is appropriately scathing. The "west" likes to pretend it's above censorship ala some imagined Chinese model (not that there isn't one, just it wouldn't be exactly as you imagine). On the other hand, "censor" was an appropriate privilege and job title within the Roman-Catholic Empire. Other euphemisms pertain.
I quit the Mathematics Research Educators group yesterday, public on Facebook. The admins just couldn't be bothered to include a "pensive cowboy" in the conversations. That's my Youtube persona: a guy with a black Stetson a lot of the time (not always).
The education research I'm doing centers around mainstreaming various aspects of a "Bucky math" that's embedded in American literature and that some universities are now starting to grapple with. They don't like having to play catch up, but in an open source economy that may become their role.
Remember how GNU / Linux grew from the need to continue practicing one's craft even after enjoying tools covered by license fees unaffordable to individuals. Everyone needed UNIX but relatively few could afford to pay Bell Labs. Once ordinary people could use Cyberian power tools, the playing field was leveled like never before and a new kind of democratic meritocracy could begin to experiment with itself.
Our "open source textbook" approach is not new. I get peer reviewed by my peers even as I pump out the Jupyter notebooks from JupyterLab, while urging my high school students to do the same. There's no reason to censor my School of Tomorrow content, which extends various entries in Wikipedia and Wikieducator. We're more delayed than stopped, by the Pearson + NCTM conspiracy. Given the American literature context, we will continue to "debritify" i.e. escape the tyranny of NATO + English programming. Does that mean widening the distance twixt NPR and BBC?
