Intellectual Freedom News 11/2/18
November 2, 2018 – Collated by OIF Staff and News Editors
Intellectual Freedom Highlights
- After man burns LGBTQ children’s books, donations to Orange City library skyrocket | Des Moines Register (IA)
Censorship
- Iowa library flooded with donations after man burns LGBTQ children’s books on camera | The Hill
- All books except the Bible, ‘Christian publications’ banned at Forrest Co. jail, lawsuit says | Hattiesburg American (MS)
- Queer artist claims Bal Harbour officials censored his photography | Hyperallergic
- Drag queen story time in Riverside results in confrontation | NBC Bay Area (CA)
Privacy
- Privacy and the public library: NYPL’s chief digital officer looks to raise awareness in Seattle visit | GeekWire
- How tech companies deceive you into giving up your data and privacy | TED Talks
- Your Kid’s Apps Are Crammed With Ads | New York Times
- Facing tomorrow’s high-tech school surveillance | Motherboard
- Senator’s data privacy law draft could put CEOs in jail for lying | C|Net
- FTC Announces Sessions on Consumer Privacy and Data Security As Part of its Hearings on Competition and Consumer Protection in the 21st Century | Federal Trade Commission
- Jason Chaffetz: Apple’s Tim Cook is right: Americans’ privacy should be treated as a fundamental right | Fox News
- Privacy group calls on US government to adopt universal AI guidelines to protect safety, security and civil liberties | TechCrunch
- DNA kits: What does your cousin’s DNA reveal about you? | OIF Blog
See this week’s additional privacy news and updates on the Choose Privacy Everyday blog.
Net Neutrality and Broadband Access
- California agrees not to enforce its net neutrality law as Justice Dept. puts lawsuit on hold | Washington Post
- FCC falsely claims community broadband an ‘ominous threat to the First Amendment’ | Motherboard
- The future of net neutrality | The Nation
- America’s internet freedom rating dropped due to the repeal of net neutrality | Motherboard
- Freedom on the net: The rise of digital authoritarianism | Freedom House
Access
- Public Library Association supports libraries in connecting consumers to health care coverage | ALA News
- Nearly one-in-five teens can’t always finish their homework because of the digital divide | Pew Research
- The digital gap between rich and poor kids is not what we expected | New York Times
- A Dark Consensus About Screens and Kids Begins to Emerge in Silicon Valley | New York Times
- Condoms in the Library: “Things You Might Need” | Knowledge Quest
Free Press, Social Media, and Fake News
- Freedom on the Net 2018 | Freedom House
- Anger toward media spreads into local communities | Associated Press
- Trump’s attacks on the news media are working | New York Times
- How Congress could rein in Google and Facebook | The Verge
- Twitter Should Kill the Retweet | The Atlantic
- Gab, the white supremacist sanctuary linked to the Pittsburgh suspect, goes offline (for now) | Washington Post
- ‘If Free Speech Offends You, Too Bad’: Tomi Lahren on What Fox Nation Is All About | Fox News
- Hate speech tied to suspect in synagogue massacre rekindles calls for regulating social media | Washington Post
- Study finds neutral fact-checking doesn’t convince voters to abandon ‘fake news’ | Tulane University
Academic Freedom & Campus Speech
- Cornell drops exchanges with Chinese school over academic freedom issues | Reuters
- How colleges make themselves easy targets | Chronicle of Higher Education
First Amendment and Free Speech
- Hate speech is infecting America, but trying to ban it is not the answer | Sacramento Bee
- Trump’s divisive speech puts the First Amendment at risk | Foreign Policy
- The 1st Amendment applies to government — Companies can and should ban hate speech | Forbes
- Protesting on the Supreme Court’s Front Porch | Harvard Law Review
- The neuroscience of hate speech | New York Times
- Rhetorical hyperbole protects free speech | Freedom Forum Institute
Around the Web
- ALA, GLBTRT continue to voice support of LGBTQ civil liberties | ALA News
- Transgender fight could prove major test for Supreme Court | The Hill
- Tiny Books Fit in One Hand. Will They Change the Way We Read? | New York Times
- 13 scary banned books to read for Halloween | OIF Blog
- Dispatches from the Houghton Library, part two: Who’s in and who’s out? | OIF Blog
- Happy birthday, Mark Haddon! | OIF Blog
- How comics were blamed for the vampire panic in 1950s Scotland | CBLDF
- ‘Looking for Alaska’: John Green novel becomes Hulu series | Orlando Sentinel
- What’s the best American novel? A PBS vote is a revealing look at our (limited) taste. | Washington Post
- Celebrated graphic novelist Gene Luen Yang is next Chubb Fellow | Yale News
- Two male penguins paired off at a Sydney aquarium. They just adopted a chick. | Washington Post
- 20 controversial books that made a stir when they were published | Insider
International Issues
- To Kill a Mockingbird ban exposes culture of fear at Peel school board | Toronto Star
- Oxford professor says ‘academic freedom’ is under threat after he is accused of running transphobic Twitter account | Telegraph (UK)
- South Korean war on ‘fake news’ raises concern of censorship | Seattle Times
- ‘That’s me’: LGBTQ kids’ books that mean the world to these families | Huffington Post
- A chapter closes: last Hong Kong bookshop selling titles banned in China shuts | The Guardian
- Cuban artists urge revision of decree feared to hike censorship | Reuters
ALA News
- American Libraries Live: What Do the Midterms Mean for Your Library?
- ALA, GLBTRT continue to voice support of LGBTQ civil liberties
- Will Eisner Graphic Novel Grants for Libraries add a third grant starting in 2019 – Deadline January 18, 2019
- ALA seeks applicants for national Policy Corps – Deadline set for November 16, 2018
- Gear up for International Games Week 2018
- YALSA seeks member manager for YALSAblog
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