November 11, 2016

Censorship

Access

• Newsmaker: Marley Dias bringing diversity to kids’ books | American Libraries

• Limitless Libraries: a collaborative partnership that supports at-risk students | Knowledge Quest

• The freedom of reading: Librarians help bring books to prisoners | American Libraries

• Europe rules that libraries can lend e-books like normal ones | Engadget

• Libraries can be a health lifeline for people most at risk | Fox News Health

Privacy

• Justice department reaffirms protections for reader privacy | American Booksellers Association

• Rise of encrypted browsing shows no signs of slowing | Forbes

• Library debating public privacy vs. public safety | The Columbus Telegram (NE)

• Omaha library weighs loosening policy on giving security video to police | Omaha World-Herald

• Indonesia poised to pass Asia’s first ‘Right to Be Forgotten’ law | Voice of America

Internet Filtering

• Internet filters likely, says Library Board | Watertown Public Opinion

• Users around the world reject Europe’s upload filtering proposal | Electronic Frontier Foundation

Around the Web

• University of Denver Keeps Watchful Eye Over Free Speech Wall—With a Camera | The Fire

• Does the First Amendment end at the prison gate? | The Marshall Project

• Walmart pulls kid-nudity photo books from website | USA Today

• To counter book censorship, amplify the voices of young readers | NCAC Blog

• Kids explain how banned and challenged books helped them and even saved their lives | Boing Boing

• Between the sheets: banned books the censors didn’t want you to read | BBC News

• Cypress School District handles unexpected controversy over Vessels book fair | Orange County Breeze (CA)

• An artist is building a Parthenon of banned books | Smithsonian Magazine

• UA Department of Theatre to present show about book censorship | Fayetteville Flyer (AR)

• Eleanor & Park: a terrifying YA romance that has rescued its readers and frightened their parents | Boing Boing

• Challenged books and the freedom to read | Bellevue Reporter (WA)

• Free speech under attack at another university | PJ Media

• Free speech, privacy, and more | Inside Higher Ed

• NCAC Asks radio station at Columbia U. to prove commitment to free expression | NCAC Blog

• What do we tell the children? | Huffington Post

• Elementary school cancels mock election after kids chant ‘Trump’ | Washington Times

• The frightening effect of ‘Trump Talk’ on America’s schools | Washington Post

• Donald Trump can’t believe Jay Z’s vulgar language: ‘Can you imagine if I said that?’ | Washington Post

• Facebook’s censorship policy is culture specific: Dr. Robert Pepper, Facebook | exchange4media.com

• Can you legally tell an employee to stop giving customers an earful? | New York Times

• You’ve been restricted: Social-media sites are growing increasingly comfortable with censorship | City Journal

• Inappropriate coloring books | The Daily Reporter (Spencer, IA)

• Protecting the internet’s purpose | Christian Science Monitor

• Unwelcomed love | Mike Curato author blog

• U.S. Supreme Court takes up major transgender rights case | Reuters

• One university asks: How do you promote free speech without alienating students? | Chronicle of Higher Education

International Issues

• Calicut university removes controversial book | Times of India

• Polish minister accuses Facebook of censorship over right-wing symbol | Reuters

• Angry Saudi intellectuals brand closure of cafe and cultural space as ‘censorship’ | The Independent

• Debate on digital age censorship | New Zealand Independent News

• Book and film “I am not Malala” launched in Lahore | ARY News (Pakistan)

• Kazakhstan: Muslim jailed and fined, books banned | Forum 18 News (Oslo, Norway)

• ‘UK’s censorship & harassment are no solution’: European journalists’ union speaks up for RT | RT (Russia)

• China censors online video streaming | PC Magazine

• Serbia’s censorship debate | Aljazeera

• Disappearance of Hong Kong booksellers ‘has dealt huge blow to publishers of sensitive books’ | South China Morning Post

• PEN America decries abduction of Hong Kong booksellers | Shelf Awareness

• Sudan: novels confiscated at Khartoum International Book Fair | AllAfrica

• Protesters burn books as Jordan reduces religion’s role in schools | The National (UAE)

• Russia puts library boss in jail for ‘inciting hatred’ | BBC News
• No censorship at UAE book fairs — National Media Council | Gulf News (United Arab Emirates)
• UBC Free Speech Club don red “MAGA” hats to challenge censorship on campus | The Rebel (Toronto, ON)
• Scottish film explores censorship in the GDR | The Herald (Scotland)

• Willing proxies give China’s censors a global reach | The Diplomat

Office for Intellectual Freedom

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ALA News

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