Highlights

• Nominations open for 2020 IFRT John Phillip Immroth Memorial Award
• IFRT accepting nominations for 2020 Eli M. Oboler Memorial Award

Censorship

• A professor spoke out about whiteness at Georgia Southern University. Students burned her book| USA Today
• Columbia County schools limit choice novels for high school students | Augusta Chronicle (GA)
  • Editorial: Close the book on ‘ban’ worries | Augusta Chronicle (GA)
• Diverse classroom libraries spark debate in Loudoun County | Loudoun Times-Mirror (VA)
• Library board holds a public panel on ‘Drag Queen Story Hour’ to cover questions | KATU (WA)

Privacy and Cybersecurity

• Santa Cruz libraries respond to grand jury report | Santa Cruz Sentinel (CA)
• The Same FBI that Wants to Destroy Encryption is Still Illegally Snooping on Americans | Reason
• How Photos of Your Kids are Powering Surveillance Technology | The New York Times
• Bipartisan senators warn against efforts to weaken children’s online privacy law | The Hill
  • Don’t weaken privacy protections for children | New York Times
• Privacy vs. security: It’s a false dilemma | Wall Street Journal
• Inexpensive unpatched phones put billions of users’ privacy at risk | Ars Technica
• Presidential campaign websites fail at privacy, new study says | CSO
• New law bans California cops from using facial recognition tech on body cameras | Sacramento Bee (CA)
• Never trust a platform to put privacy over profit | Wired
• California outlines ways to comply with upcoming privacy law | Los Angeles Times

Additional privacy posts, news, and updates are available at the Choose Privacy Everyday blog.

Access

• The future of campus libraries? ‘Sticky interdependence’ | Chronicle of Higher Education
• Domino’s Pizza was just dealt a Supreme Court blow that could reshape the ADA in the digital era | Fast Company
• Auburn elementary school introduces a book vending machine | U.S. News and World Report

Net Neutrality & Broadband Access

• A broken system helped the FCC kill net neutrality. And if afflicts the whole government | Slate
• The court allowed the FCC to kill net neutrality because washing machines can’t make phone calls | The Verge
• Net neutrality is alive and well after this week’s crushing court defeat | Quartz
• Trump lauds net neutrality court victory, says it will lead to ‘many big things’ | Fox News
• Broadband’s entrenched inequality | Axios

Academic Freedom & Campus Speech

• Ethics of Analysis: Learning Analytics and Academic Libraries | OIF Blog
• To protect free speech, U of Wisconsin is poised to double down on disruptive protestors | Chronicle of Higher Education
• Acting Homeland Security Chief shouted off stage at Georgetown Law | New York Times
• Singapore Official: Cancelled course raised concerns | Inside Higher Ed

Hate Speech & Libraries

• Racist grafitti scrawled on University of Iowa library wall | Cedar Rapids Gazette (IA)

Fake News, Free Press, Social Media

• Libraries and journalism: Dispelling disinformation and advancing democracy with diligent fact-finding | OIF Blog
• What would Facebook regulation look like? Start with the FCC | Wired
• Facebook’s hands-off approach to political speech gets impeachment test | New York Times
• Irish monestary’s ad with nude biblical artword banned by Facebook | Irish Central
• Rubio asks US to investigate China-based TikTok censorship | CNBC
• Why Facebook doesn’t follow the First Amendment | The Verge
• Political ads can lie if they want, Facebook confirms | Ars Technica
• This week in apps: Censorship, openness, and antitrust | TechCrunch
  

First Amendment & Free Speech

• Free speech is killing us | New York Times
• ‘It is still a crime’: DA explains law after teen only charged with misdemeanor after threatening to shoot up Wilmington movie theater | WECT (NC)
• Free speech isn’t dangerous. But minimizing it is. | National Review
• Protecting religious freedom has a domino effect | Freedom Forum Institute

Around the Web

• Diversity versus indoctrination in children’s publishing | OIF Blog
• Positive impact of Banned Books Week: A reflection from youth services | OIF Blog
• Americans and Digital Knowledge | Pew Research Center
• What I saw at Drag Queen Story Hour | Wall Street Journal
• 10 banned books made into movies | ScreenRant

International Issues

• One of America’s biggest gaming companies is acting as China’s censor | Vox
• An EU court just gave countries a free pass for censorship on Facebook | Washington Post
• Hong Kong government may censor the internet to contain violent protests | NDTV
• Thailand’s anti-fake news center fans fears of censorship | Voice of America
• China won’t show NBA preseason games as backlash over Hong Kong tweet grows | CNN
• South Park banned in China after new episode lampoons government censorship: report | Salon
• America strikes back against China’s censorship | Axios
• “We too love money more than freedom”: South Park creators issue mock apology over Chinese censorship | The Denver Post
• Artists fight censorship after bans gay film, comics | Reuters
• China’s great reach: Suveillance and censorship beyond the great fire wall | Electronic Frontier Foundation
• In flip-flop, Apple bans app used by Hong Kong protestors | Ars Technica

ALA News

• Tiny Library Toolkit inspires new approaches to library services
• New from ACRL: “Libraries Promoting Reflective Dialogue in a Time of Political Polarization”
• Public libraries across U.S. join American Library Association’s first “digital book club” with gripping new ebook
• Rainbow Round Table seeks nominations for outstanding service to the LGBTQIA+ community
• Nominate a superstar librarian for the I Love My Librarian award before Oct. 21, 2019.

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