Intellectual Freedom News 11/9/2018
November 9, 2018 – Collated by OIF Staff and News Editors
Intellectual Freedom Highlights
Censorship
- Loussac Library’s drag queen storytime draws detractors | KTVA
- The group that sued to stop Drag Queen Story Time is now using it in political attack ads | LGBTQ Nation
- Under pressure, Pa. prisons repeal restrictive book policy | The Inquirer
Privacy
- Privacy Is Not A Property Right In Personal Information | Forbes
- The privacy battle to save Google from itself | Wired
- Big Brother Isn’t Watching You | Wall Street Journal
- The tradeoff between security and privacy: How do terrorists use encryption? | Forbes
- Security roundup: New legislation champions a radical future for US data privacy | WireD
- New satellites will use radio waves to spy on ships and planes | Wired
- How to lock down what websites can access on your computer | Wired
Net Neutrality and Broadband Access
- Why San Jose Kids Do Homework in Parking Lots | New York Times
- How ‘net neutrality’ became a hot-button issue | The Washington Post
- U.S. Supreme Court declines appeal against net neutrality laws | NBC News
- The midterm election didn’t salvage net neutrality | Wired
- What the midterm election results could mean for net neutrality | MarketWatch
- House Democrats to spotlight net neutrality, broadband access | Bloomberg Law
- Lawmaker who wants paid fast lanes on Internet wins US Senate seat | Ars Technica
- Supreme Court won’t hear net neutrality challenges | The New York Times
Copyright
Access
- BISG releases draft white paper on open access ebook usage | Book Industry Study Group
- Harvard converts millions of legal documents into open data | Government Technology; “The Caselaw Access Project, from the Library Innovation Lab at Harvard Law School, went live Oct. 29 and aggregates millions of state and federal cases on a free website.”
Free Press, Social Media, and Fake News
- White House News Photographers Association: We’re ‘appalled’ that Sanders may have shared ‘manipulated’ video of Acosta exchange | The Hill
- We asked for examples of election misinformation. You delivered. | The New York Times; “Two months ago, The New York Times asked readers to send in examples of election-related misinformation they saw online. Readers responded. In all, more than 4,000 examples of misinformation were submitted to The Times from social media feeds, text-messaging apps and email accounts.”
- Deepfake-busting apps can spot even a single pixel out of place | MIT Technology Review
- How to fight fake news | eSchool News
- Gab is back online after being banned by GoDaddy, PayPal, and more | The Verge
Academic Freedom & Campus Speech
- Is there a limit to academic freedom? | Diverse Issues in Higher Education
- Industries turn freedom of information requests on their critics | The New York Times
First Amendment and Free Speech
- Supreme Court agrees to hear case to determine if Maryland’s Peace Cross violates the Constitution | Baltimore Sun
- How the Supreme Court takes constitutional rights away from students | Slate
Around the Web
- Mixed success, but no library wave in Midterms 2018 | Library Journal
- Referenda roundup 2018: How states performed on library measures | American Libraries
- The 2018 New York Times/New York Public Library best illustrated children’s books | The New York Times
- Banned Book ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ is America’s ‘Best-Loved’ novel | OIF Blog
International Issues
- UNESCO launches Observatory of Killed Journalists, tracking actions taken to punish crimes against media practitioners | UNESCO
- Biting through hateful words, trans artist protests Calgary arts venue ‘censorship’ | CBC (Canada)
- Cuban artists fear censorship with new law | Voice of America News
- Australian bill spells trouble for data privacy around the world | The Hill
- China’s internet censorship is influencing digital repression around the world, report warns | Time
- Academic freedom watchdog demands China unconditionally release prominent Uyghur scholar | Radio Free Asia
- LGBT+ people erased from books in Russia with ‘gay propaganda’ law | Thomson Reuters
- In 2016, emergency laws restricted religious freedoms of Muslims more than other groups | Pew Research Center Fact Tank
ALA News
- New session: Creating a Social Media Policy for Your Library Workshop
- ALA Announces Emerging Leader Participants for Class of 2019
- Call for Proposals for 2019 ALA Annual Conference Poster Session
- 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
- YALSA seeks member manager for YALSAblog
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