IFAction News Roundup, June 8 – 14, 2014
The Office for Intellectual Freedom sponsors IFAction, an email list for those who would like updated information on news affecting intellectual freedom, censorship, privacy, access to information, and more. Click here to subscribe to this list. For an archive of all list postings since 1996, visit the IF Action archive. Below is a sample of articles from June 8 — June 14, 2014.
Filtering, Censorship, Whistle blowing, Free Press, and Free Speech Articles
Free Speech or Illegal Threats? Justices Could Say
[Pensacola] Florida School Cancels Reading Program Over Cory Doctorow Book
Al Gore: Snowden not a traitor
Iraq tries to censor social media to disrupt ISIS communication, but its success is limited
Tech company, free speech groups to protect websites under attack
Access, the Digital Divide, Net Neutrality, and Intellectual Property Protection Articles
FCC Chief Plans Action on Wi-Fi in Schools
Removing Barriers to Competitive Community Broadband
Appeals Court Rules Digital Library Doesn’t Violate Copyright Law
Verizon Says It Wants to Kill Net Neutrality to Help Blind, Deaf, and Disabled People
Privacy, Surveillance, Hacking, and Cybersecurity Articles
Google’s New All-Seeing Satellites Have Huge Potential–For Good and Evil
Gmail Bug Could Have Exposed Every User’s Address
After Heartbleed, We’re Overreacting to Bugs That Aren’t a Big Deal
Mathematicians Urge Colleagues To Refuse To Work For The NSA
Because after all, it is not information that wants to be free, it’s us [TED Talk: Keren Elazari]