Intellectual Freedom News 2/1/2019
February 1, 2019 – Collated by OIF Staff and News Editors
Highlight
- Libraries and Hate Speech: ALA’s New Resource ‘Hateful Conduct in Libraries: Supporting Library Workers and Patrons’ | OIF Blog
- New eCourse: The First Amendment and Library Services | ALA news (begins March 4)
Censorship
- Armed man disrupts Houston Library during Drag Queen Storytime | Outsmart Magazine; “James “Doc” Green Sr. was detained and disarmed for allegedly violating a no-trespassing order.”
- School library books focusing on classroom violence pulled from shelves | SI Live (NY)
- Petition aims to cancel ‘Drag Queen Story Hour’ at Greenville County Library | Greenville News (SC)
- Protesting story hour? A drag queen event at Lansdale library sparks a furor. | The Inquirer (PA)
- ‘Mockingbird’ substitute irks Duluth faculty | Duluth News Tribune
- Drag Queen Storytime draws small but noisy protest to Huntington Woods | Detroit Free press
- Franciscan University’s book ban at odds with the Catholic pursuit of truth | OIF Blog
- Fun Home removed without review in NJ high school library | CBLDF
Privacy
- Apple just became the tech industry’s de facto privacy cop | The Washington Post
- Facebook just hired a handful of its toughest privacy critics | Ars Technica
- Prisons across the U.S. are quietly building databases of incarcerated people’s voice prints | The Intercept
- Facebook pays teens to install VPN that spies on them | TechCrunch
- Period-Tracking Apps Are Monetizing Women’s Extremely Personal Data | Bloomberg News
- Making face recognition less biased doesn’t make it less scary | MIT Technology Review
- Apple takes drastic measure to stop a nasty Facetime bug | Wired
- Privacy groups claim online ads can target abuse victims | Wired
- One man’s obsessive fight to reclaim his Cambridge Analytica data | Wired
- Crucial biometric privacy law survives Illinois court fight | The Verge
- Maybe only Tim Cook can fix Facebook’s privacy problem | The New York Times
Net Neutrality and Broadband Access
- Net neutrality court case preview: Did FCC mess up by redefining broadband? | Ars Technica
- Alaska schools get faster internet – partly thanks to global warning | Wired
- Here’s the net neutrality argument advocates are about to make in court | The Daily Dot
- Broadband providers are quietly taking advantage of an internet without net neutrality protections | Public Knowledge Blog
Fake News, Free Press, Social Media
Internet Filters
- Billings students, trustees voice concerns over which websites are blocked with internet filter | Billings Gazette (MT)
Access
- Commentary: Sitka students deserve full access to school libraries | KCAW (Alaska)
- A man uses library system’s free access to create dyslexia app | US News & World Report
Copyright
- Updated Copyright: An Interpretation of the Code of Ethics
- Memes, fair use, and privacy | OIF Blog
- New eCourse—US Copyright Law in the Library: A Beginner’s Guide
First Amendment and Free Speech
- Sheriff sued for blocking, banning Black Lives Matter leaders on Facebook, suit says | The Sacramento Bee
- How O.G. Streetwear brand FUCT took a free speech case all the way to the Supreme Court | GQ
- Shielding students from censorship | The Sampson Independent
- Speech law makes docs on Jackson, R. Kelly tough to stop | The New York Times
- VA rejects bill protecting students’ First Amendment rights | CBLDF
- Student journalism: More ‘journalism,’ more needed, than ever | Freedom Forum Institute
Around the Web
- Florida bill would have students learn alternatives to climate change, evolution | Tampa Bay Times
- Teaching the Bible in Public Schools Is a Bad Idea—For Christians | The Atlantic
- Jay Asher, author of ‘Thirteen Reasons Why,’ files defamation lawsuit | The New York Times
- Tinker after 50: A historic ruling still relevant after all these years | Freedom Forum Institute
International Issues
- Reports of internet blocks and media censorship as power struggle tensions escalate in Venezuela | Global Voices
- Officials say this law is about online safety. Experts say it’s a Trojan horse for internet censorship | CNN World (Fiji)
ALA News
- ALA announces 2019 Youth Media Awards
- Kaetrena Davis Kendrick named 2019 ACRL Academic/ Research Librarian of the Year
- AASL Celebrates 2019 School Library Month with Spokesperson Dav Pilkey
- Philanthropist, author Melinda Gates to serve as 2019 National Library Week honorary chair
- Neil Gaiman to deliver 2020 Arbuthnot Honor Lecture
- Walter Dean Myers wins 2019 Children’s Literature Legacy Award
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