Intellectual Freedom News 10/25/16
Intellectual Freedom News
October 25, 2016
Censorship
- OK; Queers are taking on an Oklahoma Library for keeping LGBT books away from children | Out Front
- Scales on censorship | School Library Journal
Libraries and Free Expression
- When librarians are silenced | New York Review of Books
Access
Privacy
- Could a right to be forgotten online kill libraries? | Bloomberg BNA
- Memo to the DOJ: Facial Recognition’s Threat to Privacy is Worse Than Anyone Thought | EFF
- Study: Face recognition systesms threaten the privacy of millions | The Intercept
- Child pornography cases lead to internet privacy concerns | Ball State Daily
- Snapchat, Skype among apps not protecting users’ privacy | PEN America
- Is Silicon Valley losing the fight over user data? | Christian Science Monitor
- People’s Web-Browsing History Isn’t ‘Sensitive,’ ISPs Argue | Daily Online Examiner
- How Hackers Broke Into John Podesta and Colin Powell’s Gmail Accounts | Vice Motherboard
- Consumers Deserve More Privacy Protections, Not Less | Medium
Internet Filtering
- Library may soon see filters on computers | Watertown Public Opinion
Around the Web
- A courageous presidential endorsement by Palmer Ridge student journalists | Denver Post
- Principles on campus speech | PEN America
- Pornography: Does It Pose A Public Health Crisis? | CQ Quarterly
- Donald Trump and the Return of Seditious Libel | ProPublica
- A Florida man is suing the Miami Beach mayor for his Facebook block list | Fusion
- Opinion/letter: Controversial statements are still protected speech | The Daily Progress
- Snowflake Nation: How panderly parenting is creating a generation of tyrants | The New American
- Open-campus policy called into question | RoundUp News
- Can cries of ‘Free Speech’ be a weapon? Students say yes | New York Times
- Amy Goodman is facing jail time for reporting on the Dakota access pipeline. That should scare us all | The Nation
- Judge Rejects Riot Charge Against Amy Goodman of ‘Democracy Now’ Over Pipeline Protest | New York Times
- Students expelled after Facebook group calls for ‘execution’ of Jews, black people | The Guardian
- Free speech under threat on campuses | News Advance
- GMHS school newspaper editor takes free press bid to board | Falls Church News Press
- Lafayette High principal apologizes for assignment on use of racial slur that led to protest | Lexington Herald Leader
- Gay in Russia: LGBT youth website shut down by Russian censors | International Business Times
- Arrests at a Kansas City Public Library event show how the lines blur when off-duty police work private security | The Pitch
- “There’s a lot of fear” Hillary Clinton says the “Trump Effect” leads to bullying in K–12 schools. How should teachers respond? | Slate
- Longview High librarian suspended after presidential candidate cutouts | Longview News Journal
- Canadian students demand censure of ‘bigoted’ professor who refuses to use ‘correct gender pronouns’ | Heat Street
Office for Intellectual Freedom
- Seeking bloggers: If you have thoughts on intellectual freedom, we want to hear them! Apply to be a part of the OIF blog squad, dedicated to spreading knowledge, news and opinions.
- Webinar: History of Intellectual Freedom and Censorship: Thursday, November 10. Free for Freedom to Read Foundation members.
- Intellectual freedom nominations for the John Philip Immroth Memorial Award due soon
- Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark Documentary
ALA News
- Executive Board Report
- Petition form is open to be a part of the ALA election
- AASL Intellectual Freedom Award
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