Intellectual Freedom News, 12/20/19
Highlights
- Share your censorship story | Intellectual Freedom Blog
Censorship
- Author Robin Stevenson Returns to Speak in Community Where She Was Uninvited for LGBTQ+ Content | Intellectual Freedom Blog
- LGBTQ issues complicate Kalamazoo elementary book program | WMUK (MI)
- Reaction to Kalamazoo Public Schools saying no to LGBTQ books | WKFR (MI)
- How a children’s book became a sex ed strawman for Arizona Republicans | Phoenix New Times
- Court sides with Colorado supermax prison in censorship case | CBS 4 Denver (CO)
- Urged to cancel event criticized as anti-trans, Seattle Public Library board postpones final decision | Seattle Times
- Omission or censorship? Meta-outrage overlooks legitimate controversy | Intellectual Freedom Blog
Privacy and Cybersecurity
- Privacy is a Human Right – It Can’t Be Bought or Sold | Consumer Federation of America
- Democratic senators are demanding an investigation into the use of facial recognition in public housing | BuzzFeed News
- Facebook is gearing up for a battle with California’s new data privacy law | Vox
- Companies, not people, should bear the burden of protecting data | Brookings
- America should demand privacy protection — before it’s too late | The Hill
- Will Congress actually pass a privacy bill? | New York Times
- What does your car know about you? We hacked a Chevy to find out | Washington Post
- College Board sold student data for 47 cents each, lawsuit claims | EdScoop
- Consumers worry more about privacy than any other issue except healthcare | MediaPost
Additional privacy posts, news, and updates are available at the Choose Privacy Every Day blog.
Access
- The Impeachment Papers | Digital Public Library (e-book)
- Newport Beach libraries weigh rules against bathing in restrooms and leering | Los Angeles Times
- Taking money from the vulnerable: Jpay, states charge incarcerated for free ebooks | Book Riot
- How classroom technology is holding students back | TechCrunch
- The Book Truck that brings free books thousands of L.A. students | School Library Journal
- A library of things: Public libraries provide access to sewing machines, cooking pans, and more | Georgia Public Library Service
- No Holds Barred: Policing and Security in the Public Library | In the Library With A Lead Pipe
Net Neutrality & Broadband Access
- There are Kentuckians sho still don’t have broadband because the former governor chose an investment bank over experts | ProPublica
- How state policy shapes broadbland deployment | Pew Trusts
Fake News, Free Press, Social Media
- Bing’s Top Search Results Contain an Alarming Amount of Disinformation | Stanford Cyber Policy Center
- Exclusive: Facebook funding Reuters deepfakes course for newsrooms | Axios
- What’s going on with TikTok, China, and the US government? | Vox
- Facebook will bar posts, ads that spread disinformation about the U.S. Census | Washington Post
Academic Freedom & Campus Speech
- Shouting down is not a part of free speech | Wall Street Journal
First Amendment & Free Speech
- US government is entitled to all Snowden book proceeds, judge rules | Ars Technica
- Is Inclusiveness eroding free speech? Princeton president argues they can work together | Jewish Journal
- Think we’re powerless against hate speech? The Constitution provides plenty of room to address it | Pennsylvania Capital-Star (Commentary)
- Why don’t universities treat anti-semitism like racism and sexism? | Forbes
- A police officer sued a Black Lives Matter protester for violence he didn’t commit. What’s next has free-speech advocates worried | Washington Post
- Students are fed up with seeing Confederate symbols at an NC school. Can they stop it? | The Charlotte Observer
- We’re divided in new ways over core First Amendment freedoms | Freedom Forum Institute
- ‘A profound national commitment’ to a ‘robust’ debate | Freedom Forum Institute
Around the Web
- The misguided war on pornography and the return of right-wing puritanism | Washington Examiner
- The statistics of censorship | Book Riot
- The year art censorship came back in style | Washington Examiner
- Hallmark Channel Pulls Ads Featuring Same-Sex Wedding Due to Pressure, Prompts Calls to #BoycottHallmark | TV Line
- Dems have a plan to fight Trump on climate censorship | Michigan Advance
- Regnery Publishing accuses CAIR of ‘smear campaign’ for effort to ban book on Confederacy | The Washington Times
- Walls That Withstand Whitewashing: The Murals of William F. Herron | Intellectual Freedom Blog
- These are the books that were banned the decade you were born | Reader’s Digest
- ‘Lady Chatterly’s Lover’ was banned 90 years ago. Now we’re—yawn—bored by obscenity | Washington Post
- Free Speech Supporters Fill The Beat’s 100 Best Comics of the Past Decade | Comic Book Legal Defense Fund
International Issues
- The censor is watching: China’s mega photo fair – in pictures | The Guardian
- Chinese University Deletes Academic Freedom From Its Charter | Chronicle of Higher Education
- China’s playwrights walk fine line between censorship and artistic freedom | South China Morning Post
- Albania passes anti-slander law despite media protest calling it censorship | Reuters
- Canadian literary editor fired after supporting free speech | The Post Millenial
- Hate speech: The Achilles heel of Ethiopia | The Reporter
- India adopts the tactic of authoritarians: Shutting down the internet | New York Times
ALA News
- ALA awards more than $100,000 to Library Census Equity Fund grantees
- ALA response to scam that cons authors with promises of endorsements
- Application open for 2020 ALA Leadership Institute
- 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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