Intellectual Freedom News 1/3/2020
Highlights
- Free Speech—or Free-for-All? | American Libraries; “First Amendment audits push privacy limits. “Patrons should be able to use library services without fear that their identity, location, or reading choices will be published on YouTube.”
- Supporting intellectual freedom year-round: An interview with Ellie Diaz | Intellectual Freedom Blog
- Sharing my censorship story: Five years later | Intellectual Freedom Blog
Censorship
- Update: Difference Makers: Bette Ammon navigates book-bandit attention, guides the growth of CdA library | Spokesman-Review; “As for the book bandit, they are still at it apparently, Ammon said. A new book on impeachment recently turned up missing. She is frustrated that this attempt at censorship is still happening, because the alternative is easier: “If you have requests, let us know.”
Privacy and Cybersecurity
- Why an internet that never forgets is especially bad for young people | MIT Technology Review
- Colleges want freshmen to use mental health apps. But are they risking students’ privacy? | Washington Post
- Think twice before posting your Instagram Top 9 for 2019 | Fast Company
- Seeing those opt-out messages about your personal information on websites? Thank California’s new privacy law | Los Angeles Times
- Illinois says you should know if AI is grading your online job interviews | Vox
- The Surveillance State Quietly Lost a Major Court Case| The Daily Beast
- What problems did edtech solve and what new ones did it create? | EdSurge
- YouTube to limit data collection on children’s videos | Wall Street Journal
Additional privacy posts, news, and updates are available at the Choose Privacy Every Day blog.
Access
- Library program offers meals, food for thought to homeless patrons | Tucson.com
- Why internet stops once school ends for many rural California students | PBS News Hour
- USCIS announces proposed fee increases | Intellectual Freedom Blog
- Duluth leaders protest publisher’s move to limit library access to new e-books | Duluth Star Tribune
- Many families struggle to pay for phone calls with loved ones in U.S. prisons | NBC News
- Voting rights restoration gives felons a voice in more states | PEW
Fake News, Free Press, Social Media
- Internet Deception Is Here to Stay—So What Do We Do Now? | Wired
- After another year of Trump attacks, ‘ominous Signs’ for the American press | New York Times
- A deceptively edited video of Joe Biden illustrates a big problem in 2020 | Vox
- TikTok Says Chinese Government Made No Requests to Censor Content | The Wrap
Hate Speech and Hate Crimes
- What We Found in Three Years of Documenting Hate: A Letter to Our Partners | ProPublica
- A Different Era’: Anti-Semitic Crimes, and Efforts to Track Them, Climb | New York Times
- Inside the White Nationalist Terrorist Movement in America | New York Magazine
- When Native Americans Are Told To ‘Go Back’ To Where They Came From | HuffPost
- Opinion: ‘Hate Crime’ is only a step away from Thoughtcrime | Wall Street Journal
Academic Freedom & Campus Speech
- The new red scare on American campuses | The Economist
- Was It Wrong for a Professor to Show a Student Video Parodying a Hitler Film — or for UMass to Remove Her for It? | Chronicle of Higher Education
- Pro-Palestine professor sues Quora for censorship after banning | Bloomberg
First Amendment & Free Speech
- Minnesota appeals court nukes broadly-written revenge porn law | TechDirt
- It’s intellectual flu season: Legislatures again target beliefs | Miami Today
Around the Web
- The Romance Writers of America racism row matters because the gatekeepers are watching | The NBC News
- America’s first banned book really ticked off the Plymouth Puritans | Atlas Obscura
- Google’s censorship of cryptocurrencies goes way beyond Youtube | Forbes
- Alanis Morissette fans angered at censors for beeping lines from New Year’s performance | Deadline
- Fox News host apologizes for describing removal of Trump’s ‘Home Alone 2’ cameo as ‘censorship’ | Business Insider
- The Doonesbury Comics Too Controversial to Be Published in Newspapers! | CBR.com
- Popular Play With Controversial Gay Scene Being Adapted Into Novel | NewNowNext
- Star Wars Lesbian Kiss Evades China’s censors | The Telegraph
International Issues
- Russia successfully tests an ‘alternative internet’ | Digital Journal
- France summons Iran envoy over ‘intolerable’ detention of scholars | France 24
- Why China’s crackdown on academic freedom will backfire | South China Morning Post
- China’s new internet censorship rules outline direction for content | Variety
- Pompeo accuses Iran of using violence, Censorship to suppress memorials | Voice of America
- Albania’s EU commitment wuestioned over media ‘censorship’ laws | Balkan Insight
- Chinese escalation of literature censorship | The Organization for World Peace
ALA News
- Forward Together, Charting a path to a more vibrant and effective organization | ALA President Wanda Brown in American Libraries
- Update on Macmillan ebook embargo | American Libraries; “Advocates are making inroads at the congressional level—particularly with the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial, and Administrative Law, which is currently investigating competition in digital markets.”
- YALSA names 2020 Great Graphic Novels for Teens
- Games and Gaming Round Table announces Game On! Grants
- ALA announces slate of Executive Board candidates
- Application open for 2020 ALA Leadership Institute
- New National Library Week materials and more from ALA Graphics
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