Intellectual Freedom News 1/5/2018
January 5, 2018 – Collated by OIF Staff and News Editors
Intellectual Freedom Highlights
- Compelled speech in the new year | OIF Blog; “As a fundamental right, the First Amendment has the power to impact almost every area of our lives. This is evident in two cases regarding compelled speech, currently making their way to the United States Supreme Court – one related to abortion and the other related to cake baking, yet both tied to the First Amendment. Both could have far-reaching implications for how the First Amendment protects speech.”
- High points and concerns: Reflections on Intellectual Freedom in 2017 | Knowledge Quest
- Free printable 2018 calendars to advocate for intellectual freedom | OIF Blog
Censorship
- Take action: 8 ways you can support ‘The Hate U Give’ | OIF Blog
- Who’s afraid of the big bad words? | JSTOR Daily
- Conservative video producer suing Google over “censorship” pushes for injunction | Hollywood Reporter
- Trump demands that publisher halt release of critical book | The New York Times
- Teacher, parents weigh in on nude-artwork incident | Herald Journal
Privacy
- What’s To Come As Government Surveillance Sunsets With 2017? | Forbes
- That Game on Your Phone May Be Tracking What You’re Watching on TV | New York Times
- Ad targeters are pulling data from your browser’s password manager | The Verge
- Supreme Court Addresses Cell Phone Privacy in Carpenter v. United States | National Law Review
- Motel 6 gave guest lists to immigration agents in Washington State, lawsuit says | The New York Times
See this week’s additional privacy news and updates on the Choose Privacy Week blog.
Net Neutrality and Broadband Access
- FCC issues final version of order eliminating net neutrality rules | Tech Crunch
- Text alerts will tell net neutrality supporters who to vote out of Congress | Gizmodo
- Net neutrality’s dead. The battle to resurrect it is just beginning | MIT Technology Review
- Repealing net neutrality: What it means for the future of smart cities | Inc.
- New coalition to bring more internet to rural America | Axios; “Microsoft, along with a slew of rural broadband and technology groups, is launching a new issue advocacy coalition called Connect Americans Now that aims to eliminate the digital divide in rural America.”
- After beating cable lobby, Colorado city moves forward with muni broadband | Ars Technica
Filtering
- ACLU targets schools on internet filtering | NK Standard – Times; “Despite state law, excessive internet filtering in dozens of school districts statewide continues to hinder the First Amendment rights of thousands of Rhode Island students and teachers, claims a report released last week by the American Civil Liberties Union of Rhode Island (RIACLU).”
Free Press, Social Media, and Fake News
- Some real data on fake news | The Chronicle of Higher Education
Academic Freedom and Campus Speech
- How can scholars challenge the rise of Chinese censorship in the West | Times Higher Education
- Students Identify With 50-Year-Old Supreme Court Case | National Public Radio
- The seven words you can’t say at the CDC…? | OIF Blog
First Amendment and Free Speech
- U.S. judge bars district policy against kneeling during national anthem | Ed Week
- 9th Circuit strikes down most of Idaho’s ‘ag gag’ law | Capital Press (Idaho)
- Trump’s Assault on the First Amendment | Bloomberg
- Daily read: The Pentagon Papers, prior restraint, and Fire and Fury | Constitutional Law Professors Blog
- 10th Circuit Court of Appeals upholds rules against spontaneous protests at DIA | Denver Post
- Food Truck ‘Wandering Dago’ Wins at Free-Speech Case | Courthouse News
Around the Web
- The remarkable influence of A Wrinkle in Time | Smithsonian
- Libraries under capitalism: The enclosure of the literary commons | Truthout
- 2017 year in review: A look back at the stories that affected libraries | American Libraries
- In 2018, libraries to the rescue: Why Americans are right to crave facts, books | NY Daily News
International Issues
- Social media plays ‘extremely important’ role in Iranian protests despite censorship | CBC News
- Germany starts implementing new hate speech law | Economic Times
- Censorship in Venezuela fuels social media growth | International Policy Digest
ALA News
- YALSA names 2018 Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adults
- Misty Copeland READ® poster and more in new ALA Graphics catalog
- ALA 2018 Annual Conference Preliminary Scheduler is live! Check out the awesome programs available before registration and housing open Wednesday, January 10, 2018 at 12:00 Noon CST.
- ALA announces 12-member cohort for newly-launched ALA Policy Corps
- ALA invites nominations for 2018 Eileen Cooke State & Local Madison Award. The award recognizes an individual or group who has championed, protected, or promoted public access to government information and the public’s right to know at the state or local level.
- ALA announces petition candidates for ALA Council
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