Intellectual Freedom News 12/7/18
December 7, 2018 – Collated by OIF Staff and News Editors
Intellectual Freedom Highlights
- OIF Seeks Censorship Information from 2018
- Twitter Chat with OIF on Monday, December 17 | OIF Blog
- Facebook Live with OIF on Wednesday, December 12 | OIF Blog
- Searching for Intellectual Freedom Bloggers 2019 – Apply by December 9
Censorship
- SPLC spearheads coalition to fight censorship incident in Arkansas | Student Press Law Center
- The strange world of banned books in Florida prisons | Florida Phoenix
- Thirty years after Hazelwood case, Centre County high school journalists experience censorship | Daily Collegian (PA)
- Drag Queen to read children’s stories at UAFS, Ark. Senator questions event | KFSM News 5 (AK)
Privacy
- Why we must stop racist facial surveillance being sold by Amazon to law enforcement agencies | Blavity
- Toward defining privacy expectations in an age of oversharing | The Economist
- Facebook allegedly offered advertisers special access to users’ data and activities | Washington Post
- To reduce privacy risks, the census plans to report less accurate data | New York Times
- The end of privacy began in the 1960s | New York Times
- The Battle Between Data and Privacy Rights Will Become Even More Chilling | Adweek
- Digital divide is wider than we think, study says | New York Times
- The Secret Service wants to test facial recognition around the White House | The Verge
- House Democrats worry Amazon’s facial recognition tool might be racially biased | Buzzfeed News
- Google denies claim that it’s tracking internet users when incognito mode is on | Digital Trends
Net Neutrality and Broadband Access
- How rural America is turning into a digital desert | Marketplace
- What’s next: How the online world reflects inequality | Axios
- Native Americans on tribal land are ‘the least connected’ to high-speed internet | NPR
- FCC chairman acknowledges Russians interfered in net neutrality debate | CNET
- How the 116th Congress Could Close the Digital Divide | Schools, Health, and Libraries Broadband Coalition
- Inside House Democrats’ plans to investigate the FCC and net neutrality | Mother Jones
- The Educational Broadband Service and why it matters for schoolchildren and unserved communities | Benton Foundation
- “What is the FCC hiding?” Pai still won’t release net neutrality server logs | Ars Technica
- What the government is doing on internet access | Axios
- Ajit Pai buries 2-year-old speed test data in appendix of 762-page report | Ars Technica
Access
- When the Internet Archive Forgets | Gizmodo
- The Students Suing for a Constitutional Right to Education | The Atlantic
- PEN America files brief for court to recognize constitutional right to literacy | School Library Journal
- Drag Queen Story Hour NYC bringing program to older kids | School Library Journal
Filtering
- Porn complaint prompts Lebanon library to look at filters | Union Leader (NH)
Free Press, Social Media, and Fake News
- Remedy For Bad Content Moderation Isn’t to Give Government More Power to Control Speech | Electronic Frontier Foundation
- Chatbots Are a Danger to Democracy (Opinion) | New York Times
- Where the death of local news hits hardest | Axios
- Why Facebook and Twitter Aren’t Stopping the Flood of False and Toxic Content | Mother Jones
- Why Amazon is a ‘bully’ and Facebook and Google are ‘the enemies of independent thought’ | ReCode
- Teens’ Social Media Habits and Experiences | Pew Research Center
- Tumblr’s nudity ban removes one of the last major refuges for pornography on social media | Washington Post
Academic Freedom & Campus Speech
- Free speech is a core tenet of the academy. College trustees really ought to know that. | Chronicle of Higher Education
- Professor’s criticism of Israel is condemned as ‘hate speech’ | Chronicle of Higher Education
- AAUP chapters revive as professors see threats to academic freedom | Chronicle of Higher Education
- When hate speech and free speech collide | Issues in Higher Education
First Amendment and Free Speech
- Several states pass laws authorizing ‘In God We Trust’ motto in schools and other public buildings | ABA Journal
Hate Crimes and Hate Speech
- Hate speech is showing up in schools. Censorship isn’t the answer. | Washington Post
Around the Web
- Literacy voices for intellectual freedom: Dispatches from NCTE & LRA | OIF Blog
- Award named after author Bill Konigsberg | School Library Journal
- An interview with author Lady Dane Figeuroa Edidi | OIF Blog
- Freedom of speech & privacy on the Most Perfect Album | OIF Blog
- Historian Ada Palmer traces censorship of radical ideas across centuries | UChicago News
- You’ve heard the conservative case against higher ed. But have you read the novel? | Chronicle of Higher Education
- Ohio radio station stops playing holiday song amid ‘Me Too’ movement | KATV (AK)
- ACLU urges state to investigate Orange private school that banned boy with hair in locs | Orlando Sentinel
- No invisibility cloak needed for library restricted collections | The Daily Universe (UT)
International Issues
- Poland rejects the EU’s copyright censorship plans, calls it #ACTA2 | Boing Boing
- The cemetery of banned books: Censorship in Kuwait | Mancunion
- Sony Japan president: New censorship policies on sexual themes are to “meet global standards” | Niche Gamer
- Winnie the Pooh ‘banned from Disneyland in China’ due to Xi Jinping meme | Independent
- Internet censorship tightens in Senegal before elections | Al Jazeera
- The top AI scientist who quit Google over Chinese censorship plans details the hypocrisy that sent him packing | Boing Boing
ALA News
- Don’t miss the new LITA webinar – Accessibility for All: Screen Readers (Tuesday December 18, 2018, 1:00 – 2:30 pm Central Time)
- Information rights for records managers (new resource)
- 2019 Loleta D. Fyan Grant now accepting proposals (due January 11)
- American Library Association announces I Love My Librarian awards
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