Intellectual Freedom News 11/30/2018
November 30, 2018 – Collated by OIF Staff and News Editors
Intellectual Freedom Highlights
- OIF Seeks Censorship Information from 2018
- Twitter Chat with OIF on Monday, December 17 | OIF Blog
- Facebook Live with OIF on Wednesday, December 12 | OIF Blog
- Searching for Intellectual Freedom Bloggers 2019 – Apply by December 9
Censorship
- At Louisiana prisons, there’s some mystery in what gets a book banned | NOLA.com
- Opponents renew fight to end Drag Queen Story Hour at Houston libraries | Click 2 Houston
- Creative solution: State prisons, advocates work around a book ban | Post-Gazette (PA)
- Graphic novel ‘steeped in Islamophobia’ pulled after protests | The Guardian
- Abrams cancels controversial ‘Suicide Bomber’ graphic novel | Publishers Weekly
- Loud, tense protest outside Drag Queen Story Hour | WKRG (Alabama)
- Hey! Those don’t belong to you: Why you shouldn’t burn library books | OIF Blog
- Trans advocates criticize Vancouver Public Library for welcoming controversial speaker | The Star Vancouver
Privacy
- Life, privacy, and the pursuit of happiness: America’s great failure | McGill International Review
- New Site Offers Privacy Resources for Underserved Populations | Syracuse University School of Information Studies
- Should book choices be private? Harold Washington Library patron calls for change | CBS Chicago
- European privacy search engines aim to challenge Google | The Tribune
- Live free or die trying – New Hampshire voters enshrine right to privacy in state’s constitution | Lexology
- Surveillance kills freedom by killing experimentation | Wired
- A review of “The Age of Surveillance Capitalism” | OIF Blog
See this week’s additional privacy news and updates on the Choose Privacy Everyday blog.
Net Neutrality and Broadband Access
- Another Net Neutrality day of action draws fewer big names | Wired
- House Democrats who haven’t supported Net Neutrality yet have all taken money from telecoms | Motherboard
- Internet service in Marshall was slow, so the city built its own fiber-optic network | Battle Creek Enquirer
- Appeals court ruling on Net Neutrality will not be reviewed by the Supreme Court | American Legal News
Access
- Library of Congress Chrome extension offers easy access to Congress.gov | FedScoop
- Library is limiting book rentals to boost kids’ screen time. Parents are peeved | NJ.com
Filtering
Free Press, Social Media, and Fake News
- How archivists could stop deepfakes from rewriting history | Gizmodo
- Wiley debunks fake news censorship claims | Science 2.0
- Teens’ social media habits and experiences | Pew Research Center
- Misinformation, hoaxes, and hyperpartisan news | Freedom Forum Institute
Academic Freedom & Campus Speech
- A 100th birthday wish: Uphold academic freedom in dark times | Nature
- A chancellor, a porn star, and $5,000: Did a Wisconsin campus find the limit to free speech? | The Chronicle of Higher Education
- Law expert talks academic freedom from political involvement | Michigan Daily
First Amendment and Free Speech
- The first amendment and the public library | Petoskey News Review
- District’s response to photo of apparent Nazi salute raises questions about free speech, discipline | Education Week
- Free speech violation or a simple arrest? Supreme Court faces a familiar problem. | The Washington Post
Hate Crimes and Hate Speech
- The Costs of Forcing an Online Haven for Racists Off the Internet | American Civil Liberties Union
Around the Web
- Challenge to District’s Pro-Transgender Policy Reaches U.S. Supreme Court | Education Week
- Where have Iowa’s teacher-librarians gone? State has 40 percent fewer librarians than 20 years ago | Des Moines Register
- After public outcry, Medford mayor removes Native American items from sale | Medford Local (MA)
- ‘Little Free Library’ honoring Michelle Obama vandalized with Trump’s name | The Hill
- Small acts of kindness in banned books | OIF Blog
- The Marvel-out Stan Lee and diversity in comic books | OIF Blog
International Issues
- Kuwaiti artist creates graveyard for books to protest government’s literature ban | Euronews
- Google employees demand that Google stop work on censored Chinese search | Ars Technica
- The other war in Yemen – for control of the country’s internet | Foreign Policy
- Online censorship in Saudi Arabia soared after Jamal Khashoggi’s murder | MIT Technology Review
- Fighting fake news: Can technology help the Middle East throw off the shackles of censorship? | Forbes
- 3 books banned in Singapore for extremist religious content | The Independent
- Orban and his allies cement control of Hungary’s news media | The New York Times
ALA News
- ALA awards 250 libraries with microfunding for CS Education Week 2018, launches Ready to Code website
- Sarah Jessica Parker book club pick is Heartland, a personal story of working-class poverty in America
- ALA president reminds members of professional EDI tools to address microaggressions, quash racial profiling
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