November 16, 2018 – Collated by OIF Staff and News Editors

Intellectual Freedom Highlights

• Breaking the code: Stan Lee’s stand against censorship | Freedom Forum Institute – “Lee’s stand encouraged modernization of the code and reminded many that a simplistic blanket ban on content was not as valuable or effective as thoughtful content creation. As the editor of the most successful comic book company in the world, Lee had great power, and in this instance, showed us great responsibility.”

Censorship

• Some libraries are facing backlash against LGBT programs — and holding their ground | Buzzfeed News
• Is artistic freedom a lost cause? | Inside Higher Education
• Why Catholic colleges should ban access to pornography | America Magazine
• Mayor Bowser To Withdraw Censorship Amendment from D.C. Arts Grants | Washington City Paper
• Lesson learned from books burned | Cedar Rapids Gazette (IA)
• Alexie and Asher Redux | Scales on Censorship | School Library Journal
• The Ultimate Guide to Internet Censorship | WizCase

Privacy

• Advocates draw battle lines over national privacy law | The Hill
• Companies keep losing your data because it doesn’t cost them anything | BoingBoing
• Move Deliberately and Repair Things | Inside Higher Ed
• The Cybersecurity 202: Amazon is now at the center of a debate over public safety versus privacy | Washington Post
• Senators urge FTC to investigate manipulative ads in children’s apps | Gizmodo
  • Senators Markey, Udall, Blumenthal Call for FTC Investigation into Manipulative Marketing in Children’s Apps | U.S. Senate
• The ‘Internet of Bodies’ Is Here. Are Courts and Regulators Ready? | Wall Street Journal
• If You Drive in Los Angeles, the Cops Can Track Your Every Move | Wired
  • How Much Data Does Your Car Collect? Here’s a Reminder | Data Privacy & Security Insider

See this week’s additional privacy news and updates on the Choose Privacy Everyday blog.

Net Neutrality and Broadband Access

• How Did North Dakota Become the Crown Jewel of the Internet in the Midwest? | New America
• Rural Kids Face an Internet ‘Homework Gap.’ The FCC Could Help | Wired
• USDA partners with communities to bring high-speed broadband e-connectivity infrastructure to rural areas | USDA
• AT&T CEO: State net neutrality and privacy laws are a “total disaster” | Ars Technica
• The Supreme Court and House Democrats breathe new life into net neutrality | Brookings

Access

• New school book borrowing policy has some Mahwah parents upset | Patch
• Revisiting collection development in a digital age | Knowledge Quest

Free Press, Social Media, and Fake News

• CNN sues Trump over White House’s suspension of Jim Acosta’s press pass | Los Angeles Times
  •  Judge orders White House to reinstate Acosta’s press credentials | The Hill
  • White House fires back at CNN lawsuit, claiming ‘broad discretion’ to yank reporter Jim Acosta’s press pass | CNBC
  • Fox News stands with CNN: ‘Passes for working White House journalists should never be weaponized’ | Fox News
  • CNN suit is an important and necessary defense of press freedom | Columbia Journalism Review
  • Trump calls April Ryan a ‘loser,’ threatens to revoke more press credentials | The Hill
• Content or Context Moderation? | Data & Society
• The hardest job in Silicon Valley is a living nightmare | Fast Company
• How Can school librarians teach media literacy in today’s highly charged media landscape? | Knowledge Quest
• Making the web, social media ‘better’ places–with caution | Freedom Forum Institute

Academic Freedom & Campus Speech

• Here comes ‘The Journal of Controversial Ideas.’ Cue the outcry. | Chronicle of Higher Education
• Do academics need pseudonyms to protect their freedom? | New Statesman
• N.J. college’s professors must now report to the Chinese government, union charges | NJ.com

First Amendment and Free Speech

• The case for less speech | Wired
• White nationalists have tried to weaponize free speech. Here’s why it’s still worth defending. | The Washington Post
• History Repeating Itself: The First Amendment in the Era of “Fake News” | Jurist
• Facebook will let French regulators study its efforts to fight hate speech | Washington Post
• Judge rejects neo-Nazi’s First Amendment argument in harassment case | Ars Technica
• FX To SCOTUS: Don’t Let Olivia De Havilland Make A Federal Case Of ‘Feud’ Suit | Deadline.com
• The Rutgers prof who said f— white people just got cleared of wrongdoing | NJ.com
• Vermont students stand up for their First Amendment rights! | CBLDF
• How the GOP Gave Up on Porn | Politico

Hate Crimes and Hate Speech

• Hate crimes in America spiked 17 percent last year, FBI says | NBC News
• The FBI Says Hate Crimes Are Soaring. It Actually Has No Idea. | Slate
• Man shouts ‘Heil Hitler, Heil Trump’ during intermission of Baltimore performance of ‘Fiddler on the Roof’ | Baltimore Sun

Around the Web

• An interview with author Alex Gino | OIF Blog
• Texas board votes to keep Hillary Clinton, Moses in social studies curriculum | Dallas News
• National Book Awards honor independent presses, revisionary voices | Library Journal
• Breaking the code: Stan Lee’s stand against censorship | Freedom Forum Institute
• In the shadow of Pittsburgh: Intellectual freedom to defend the Jewish people | OIF Blog;

International Issues

• Google helps publishers avoid government’s censorship in Venezuela | ABC Local News 10 (FL)
• After Gabo book purge, Kuwait bans Dostoyevsky | France 24
• Universities warn against meddling as inquiry into freedom of speech announced | The Guardian
• Vietnam’s Lady Gaga is pressuring Facebook to stop complying with censorship laws | Quartz
• Russia omits story of transgender girl from children’s book | Georgia Voice
• University alerts students to danger of leftwing essay | The Guardian
• History suppressed: Censorship in Israel’s archives | Aljazeera
• Vatican bans further editions of book on Viganò | Ricochet
• Young Thai rappers deliver blistering critiques of ruling junta, defying strict censorship | South China Morning Post
• Amid arrests and killings, Bangladesh and India must fight censorship | The Guardian
• Netflix denies report saying that it has agreed to censor content in India | Huffington Post

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