Intellectual Freedom News 1/11/19
January 11, 2019 – Collated by OIF Staff and News Editors
Highlight
Meet the 2019 Intellectual Freedom Bloggers- Some thoughts on ‘Questioning the Dogma of Banned Books Week’ | OIF Blog
Censorship
- Drag Queen Story Time lawsuit could be dismissed after plaintiffs are found without standing to sue | The Acadiana Advocate
- ‘Drag Queen Story Hour’ goes on despite TN Pastors Network protesters | Fox 17 Nashville
Privacy
- Not All Surveillance Is Created Equal | Pacific Standard
- Everything Is PII | AdExchanger
- We Should Be Able to Take Facebook to Court: A privacy violation is a real harm. | New York Times (Opinion)
- I Gave a Bounty Hunter $300. Then He Located Our Phone | Vice Motherboard
- Los Angeles Accuses Weather Channel App of Covertly Mining User Data | New York Times
- ACLU warns: Trump’s Attorney General pick is the ‘godfather’ of America’s surveillance hell | Gizmodo
- Freedom of information and personal data: Big Tech should take cues from public libraries | Star Tribune
- Will this new Congress be the one to pass data privacy legislation? | Brookings Institute
- Rocky Mount library says cameras in bathrooms a matter of security | WRAL.com
- EU court advisor recommends ruling for Google in ‘right to be forgotten’ case | Jurist
Net Neutrality and Broadband Access
- In Buffalo’s ‘digital deserts,’ more than half of households lack internet | Buffalo News
- AT&T preps for new layoffs despite billions in tax breaks and regulatory favors | Motherboard
- What Net Neutrality in California could mean for Facebook, Google, and Apple | Forbes
Access
- Will the world embrace Plan S, the radical proposal to mandate open access to science papers? | Science
- How the Chicago Public Library is bringing story time to the laundromat | Mental Floss
- UC in negotiations with publisher Elsevier for open access to journal articles | Daily Bruin (CA)
- Addressing student overdue issues with new and reworked strategies | Knowledge Quest Blog
- The data casualties of the federal government shutdown | Pew Research Center Fact Tank
Free Press, Social Media, and Fake News
- Who shared fake news on Facebook during the 2016 presidential election? | American Association for the Advancement of Science
- Using Google Knowledge Graph to spoof search results | Bleeping Computer
- Few people shared fake news in 2016, but seniors shared the most | Ars Technica
- 4 years after “Je Suis Charlie” – Are we? | CBLDF
- ‘Snitch-tagging’ destroys any subtlety that was left on Twitter | Los Angeles Times
Academic Freedom & Campus Speech
- Blowback against a hoax | Inside Higher Ed
First Amendment and Free Speech
- Appeals court holds that government official who blocked critic from Facebook violated First Amendment | Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia
- Muslim group sues to block ‘No Boycott of Israel’ measure | The New York Times
- He disparaged the police on Facebook. So they arrested him | The New York Times
- Supreme Court rejects petition from Prison Legal News | CBLDF
- The Free Speech Century – Examining the great American experiment | CBLDF
- Iowa federal judge strikes Ag-Gag Statute as violating First Amendment | Constitution Law Prof Blog
Around the Web
- ‘Education is Political’: Neutrality in the Classroom Shortchanges Students | NEA Today
- 2018 behind, 2019 ahead | OIF Blog
- What we gain from keeping books – and why it doesn’t need to be ‘joy’ | The Guardian
- It’s not just that racial bullying jumped in schools after the 2016 election. It’s where it did | Education Week
- ‘One Nebraska’ book on farm family is divisive, won’t get proclamation, Rickets says; author calls move ‘shocking’ | Sandhills Express
- Heavily abridged ‘Slave Bible’ removed passages that might encourage uprisings | Smithsonian
- Author Bill Konigsberg calls for continued conversation in response to hatred and bigotry | School Library Journal
International Issues
- Reliance Jio may be blocking VPN and proxy websites in India | Quartz
- The Saudi blocking of Hasan Minhaj’s Netflix show proves nothing has changed in Riyadh | The Washington Post
- New books developed for visually challenged children | Iran Front Page
- Backing up Brazil’s internet so Bolsonaro can’t censor it | Columbia Journalism Review
- A major hacking spree get personal for German politicians | Wired
ALA News
- New eCourse—US Copyright Law in the Library: A Beginner’s Guide
- PLA to offer regional symposia on equity, diversity, inclusion and social justice in libraries (click for dates and locations)
- YALSA opens proposals for 2019 YA Services Symposium (due February 1)
- Will Eisner Graphic Novel Grant deadline extended to February 8
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