Highlights

• ‘Share your censorship story: OIF encourages library workers to report challenges, bans | Intellectual Freedom Blog
• Upcoming eCourses offer in-depth instruction on the First Amendment and Privacy Law | Intellectual Freedom Blog

Censorship

• Our opinion: Library is right to stand by a valuable program | Neosho Daily News
• Event at Seattle Public Library causes firestorm, group accused of being ‘hate group’ | KIRO 7
• Kansas prison book ban repeats state’s prior mistakes | PEN America
• Author claims school cancelled visit because she is transgender | Livingston Ledger

Privacy and Cybersecurity

• From Pokémon Go to Facebook, here’s how to protect your privacy on apps | Vox
• Toys “R” Us is back – Now with more surveillance! | Wired
• Google urges FTC to weaken children’s privacy rules | MediaPost
• FTC urged to step up enforcement of children’s privacy rules | MediaPost
• Opinion: Will Congress actually pass a privacy bill? | The New York Times
• Meet the scholar who diagnosed ‘Surveillance Capitalism’ | The New York Times

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

Access

• Springfield library: If you give them free bus passes, they will come | The Register-Guard
• FCC adopts ALA E-rate recommendations | American Libraries
• Just a quarter of New York’s Wi-Fi kiosks are up. Guess where. | The New York Times

Net Neutrality & Broadband Access

• Republicans just blocked a net neutrality vote in the Senate | The Daily Dot
• Bernie Sanders unveils ‘high-speed internet for all’ plan | The Daily Dot
• Only one-third of rural California households have home internet access | Education Dive

Fake News, Free Press, Social Media

• Trusting the news media in the Trump Era | Pew Research Center

Academic Freedom & Campus Speech

• Trump’s executive order on campus anti-Semitism, explained | Vox

First Amendment & Free Speech

• Violent protests and free speech: Who’s to blame for an officer’s injuries? | The New York Times
• What a phrase: “Falsely shouting ‘fire’ in a theatre” | Freedom Forum Institute

Around the Web

• Is 350 books enough? | Inside Higher Ed
• Meet the I Love My Librarian Award winners | American Libraries
• How one school uses The New York Times across the curriculum | The New York Times
• The sale of .ORG, trust, and community-based organizations | Benton Institute for Broadband & Society

International Issues

• China’s library officials are burning books that diverge from Communist Party ideology | The Washington Post
  • Chinese library sparks outrage over report staff burned ‘banned books’ | South China Morning Post
• Shutterstock’s image censoring in China prompts employee to resign | PC Mag

ALA News

• American Library Association sells Chicago HQ buildings | GlobeSt.com
• 32 guides for teaching banned books
• New National Library Week materials and more from ALA Graphics
• Call for nominations for the Gerald Hodges Intellectual Freedom Chapter Relations Award—deadline January 1
• Rainbow Round Table seeks nominations for outstanding service to the LGBTQIA+ community—deadline December 30

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