Intellectual Freedom News 1/18/19
January 18, 2019 – Collated by OIF Staff and News Editors
Highlight
- Meet the 2019 Intellectual Freedom Bloggers! | OIF Blog
Censorship
- Scappoose schools continue with ‘George’ in OBOB reading competition | Columbia County Spotlight (OR)
- New Gloucester lawmaker seeks to ban ‘obscene’ material from public schools | Sun Journal (ME)
- ‘Drag Queen Story Hour’ debated on the Anchorage Assembly floor | KTUU (AK)
- Public library in Kansas asked to move transgender children books | Topeka Capital-Journal (KS)
- Andover’s library has LGBT children’s books. Some want them out of the kids section | Wichita Eagle (KS)
Privacy
- Supervisors question intellectual freedom for children at libraries, ‘Could affect your funding’ | KCII Radio (IA)
- Court blocks Trump administration from asking about citizenship in census | New York Times
- Some Japanese-Americans wrongfully imprisoned during WWII oppose census question | NPR
- Trump’s attorney general pick wants to investigate the Justice Department’s role in Big Tech | The Verge
- You deserve privacy online. Here’s how you could actually get it (Editorial by Tim Cook) | Time
- Google urges judge to toss New Mexico AG’s suit over children’s privacy | MediaPost
- The shutdown’s impact on government privacy work | IAPP
- It’s time to try something different on Internet privacy | Washington Post
- Your old tweets give away more location data than you think | Wired
- After broken promise, AT&T says it’ll stop selling phone location data | Ars Technica
- Marco Rubio debuts alternative privacy bill | Axios
- Supreme court case may have far-reaching privacy implications | IAPP
- It’s easier than ever to log your kid’s data—but should you? | Wired
- The FBI ‘can neither confirm nor deny’ that it monitors your social media posts | ACLU
Net Neutrality and Broadband Access
- Court signals green light for net neutrality argument | Broadcasting Cable
- House Dems campaigned on net neutrality. But will they act on it? | Daily Dot
- State laws slow down high-speed internet for rural America | Pew Stateline
- FCC seeks postponement of net neutrality oral argument| Multichannel News
- Court rejects FCC request to delay net neutrality case | The Hill
Access
- SF could eliminate fines for overdue library books | San Francisco Examiner
- Bill to make federal government data more accessible becomes law | SPARC
Free Press, Social Media, and Fake News
- Anti-Trump activists defend fake-Washington Post stunt | Wired
- How to identify and report hate speech on social media | Lifehacker
Academic Freedom & Campus Speech
- The Guardian view on academic freedom: the right to be very wrong | The Guardian
- Challenging notions of academic freedom | The Guardian
- Banning a book, in the name of ‘true academic freedom’ | Inside Higher Education
First Amendment and Free Speech
- It’s the (democracy-poisoning) golden age of free speech | Wired
- Instrument supplier has no right to attend school band forum, court rules | Education Week
Around the Web
- ‘The Hate U Give’ author speaks in Charleston months after book’s local controversy | Post and Courier
- ‘Most famous’ banned book to be sold in Derbyshire | BBC
- Karen Pence teaching art at school that bans gay students, parents | CNN
- Larry Flynt champions First Amendment | Albuquerque Journal
- The library of forbidden books | BBC
- Should we ban Tintin and Snowy? | Psychology Today
- Ebooks seem like ‘Netflix for libraries,’ but they’re a drain on budgets | Philadelphia Inquirer
- We need diverse books announces 2019 Walter Awards winners | School Library Journal
International Issues
- Catholic board pulls book with LGBT characters from elementary libraries | CBC (Canada)
- Palestinian Authority comes under fire for censorship at digital activism forum | Middle East Eye
- Google faces ban in Russia after ignoring online censorship demands | The Inquirer
- Vietnamese government whines Facebook isn’t helping it censor critics quickly enough | TechDirt
- Why 1984 isn’t banned in China | The Atlantic
- Twitter: the next target for China’s social media censorship | ABC
- Canadian tech company accused of helping UAE censor LGBT+ content | Al Bawaba
ALA News
- ALA joins W.K. Kellogg Foundation in observance of 2019 National Day of Racial Healing
- Booklist announces July 2019 as Graphic Novels in Libraries Month
- 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)
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