Intellectual Freedom News 11/22/19

Intellectual Freedom News

Highlights

  • ‘Prince and Knight’ Challenge in Upshur County, WV | Intellectual Freedom Blog; “Deborah Caldwell-Stone, director of American Library Association’s Office for Intellectual Freedom, joined with the West Virginia Library Association and the National Coalition Against Censorship to express their concerns with the proposal to remove or restrict the book in a letter sent to the library board.” Read the full letter.
  • ‘Share your censorship story: OIF encourages library workers to report challenges, bans; The Office for Intellectual Freedom (OIF) encourages library workers to report censorship incidents and challenges to library or school materials and services that occurred in 2019 using an online form by December 31, 2019. Every submitted report provides crucial information that helps the office raise awareness and respond to censorship threats by creating resources for libraries.

Censorship

Privacy and Cybersecurity

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

Access

Net Neutrality & Broadband Access

Fake News, Free Press, Social Media

Academic Freedom & Campus Speech

Hate Speech

First Amendment & Free Speech

Around the Web

International Issues

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