Intellectual Freedom News 12/13/19
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
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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