Intellectual Freedom News 08/17/2018
August 17, 2018 – Collated by OIF Staff and News Editors
Intellectual Freedom Highlights
- Raise the volume on Banned Books Week: Facebook Live event with OIF – Wednesday, Aug 22 @ 12 noon Central
- Intellectual Freedom Inventory: Back to School Edition! | OIF Blog
- ALA Council rescinds Meeting Rooms: An Interpretation of the Library Bill of Rights
Censorship
- LGBTQ displays not allowed at any Washington County libraries | Good4Utah.com (Utah)
- Scientists report political meddling, self-censorship | E & E News; “Federal scientists at EPA, the Interior Department and other agencies are reporting political interference with their work, requests to remove “climate change” from research and declining staff levels, a new survey of government employees said.”
Privacy
- The Data Arms Race Is No Excuse for Abandoning Privacy | Foreign Policy
- Will Privacy First Be The New Normal? An Interview With Privacy Guru, Ann Cavoukian | Forbes
- The Unlikely Activists Who Took On Silicon Valley — and Won | The New York Times
- Google tracks your movements, like it or not | CNBC
- Mobile privacy: What do you apps know about you? | Symantic Threat Intelligence Blog
- Banks and Retailers Are Tracking How You Type, Swipe and Tap | The New York Times
- Connected Car Technology Can Enable Abusers to Track Their Victims | Vice Motherboard
- Are Targeted Ads Stalking You? Here’s How to Make Them Stop | The New York Times
See this week’s additional privacy news and updates on the Choose Privacy Everyday blog.
Net Neutrality and Broadband Access
- House Dems lay into FCC chair over false cyberattack claims | CNet; “Ajit Pai is taking heat after reports that the FCC falsely said a cyberattack knocked a public comments page offline during the net neutrality debate.”
- State net neutrality regulations are an exercise in futility | Forbes
- ISPs say they can’t expand broadband unless gov’t gives them more money | Ars Technica
- Ajit Pai loses in court – FCC can’t kill broadband subsidy in Tribal areas | Ars Technica
Access
- Library axes 3-D printers amid concerns over printing guns | US News & World Report
Free Press, Social Media, and Fake News
- Senate adopts resolution declaring “the press is not the enemy of the people” | CBS News
- United States Senate supports free press (Resolution 607) | Constitutional Law Prof Blog
- A united front in defense of the press | Columbia Journalism Review
- Newspapers across U.S. rebuke Trump for attacks on press | The New York Times
- Why a Free Press Matters | The Atlantic
- Coast to coast, and in between, local news is standing up to Trump’s press attacks | CNN
- Trump and the Enemies of the People | The New Yorker
- Trump accuses Boston Globe of ‘collusion with other papers’ amid coordinated pushback to his rhetoric | The Hill
- Major Internet Companies as News Editors | Knight Foundation
- Should platforms be regulated? A news survey says yes | Medium
- Most Americans think platforms should stop filtering the news | Columbia Journalism Review
- Taibbi: Censorship does not end well – How American learned to stop worrying and put Mark Zuckerberg in charge of everything | Rolling Stone
- 14% of Americans have changed their mind about an issue because of something they saw on social media | Pew Research Center Fact Tank
- Here’s How You Can Fight Back Against Disinformation | Mother Jones
Hate Speech / Hate Crimes
- ‘Freedom’ is best response to white supremacy hatemongers | Freedom Forum Institute
- Alex Jones, the First Amendment, and the Digital Public Square: How should we challenge hate-mongering in the age of social media? | The New Yorker
- Deplatforming Works | Vice Motherboard
Academic Freedom & Campus Speech
- Do university librarians have academic freedom? | Academe Blog
- Three new Supreme Court decisions protect free speech on campus | National Review
First Amendment and Free Speech
- Alabama pushes to bring God back into public schools, from ‘In God We Trust’ to Ten Commandments | AL.com
- This special collection at Morris Library chronicles centuries of free speech debate | The Southern Illinoisan
Around the Web
- Gutenberg’s Revenge: Why books are the only form of physical media whose sales are growing | Strategy + Business
- Baker who won Supreme Court case sues Colorado | CBS News
- How libraries bridge the employment gap | American Libraries
- Keanu Reeves is doing a new thing: Publishing books | The New York Times Style Magazine
- When we see photographs of some dead bodies and not others | The New York Times Magazine
International Issues
- Why Facebook is losing the war on hate speech in Myanmar | Reuters
- Researchers have figured out ways to dodge censorship on WeChat | Quartz (China)
- China’s Aggressive Surveillance Technology Will Spread Beyond Its Borders | Slate
- Apple and Facebook could be asked by Australia to build tools to get around encryption | Mashable
- Proposal to ban gender studies in Hungary | Inside Higher Ed
- Google employees protest secret work on censored search engine for China | The New York Times
- Decree 349 – Cuba’s new legislation to silence artists | CBLDF
ALA News
- Volunteer to serve on ALA, Council, and joint committees for 2019 – 2021
- An Interview with YALSA’s New Executive Director, Anita Mechler
- Teens can now vote for the 2018 Teens’ Top Ten
- Forty-five state library associations partner with ALA to offer joint student membership program
- Free virtual event with MARCH graphic novel creators offered as part of ALA’s Great Stories Club
- 3-D Printing in Libraries: Policies & Best Practices
- I Love My Librarian! 2018 Award nominations now open
- Still Accepting Applications for the Emerging Leaders Program – Deadline August 31
- Learn about OED, imposter syndrome, critical information literacy, more in upcoming ACRL e-Learning webcasts
- New iteration: Rethinking Social Media to Organize Information and Communities eCourse
- Freedom to Read Foundation joins with SJSU iSchool and the iSchool at Illinois to offer Fall intellectual freedom courses
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