February 23, 2018 – Collated by OIF Staff and News Editors

Intellectual Freedom Highlights

• I Support the Freedom to Read and Iowa Libraries! | OIF Blog
• NLA Intellectual Freedom Round Table receives the 2017 Gerald Hodges Intellectual Freedom Chapter Relations Award; “The Intellectual Freedom Round Table (IFRT) of the American Library Association (ALA) announces that the Nebraska Library Association Round Table for Intellectual Freedom is the 2017 recipient of the Gerald Hodges Intellectual Freedom Chapter Relations Award.”
• Prison book bans: A matter of safety or concern | OIF Blog; “Regulations allow for the banning of written materials that could potentially “incite violence based on race, religion, sex, creed, nationality, or disobedience toward law enforcement officials or correctional staff.” The irony here is that the language used in this “modern day” prison regulation is reminiscent of the following 19-century slaves code: ‘Whereas the teaching of slaves to read and write has a tendency to excite dissatisfaction in their minds, and to produce insurrection and rebellion, to the manifest injury of the citizens of this State … ‘”
• Report from ALA Midwinter: Intellectual freedom documents to help school librarians | Knowledge Quest
• New ALA Statement Affirms Net Neutrality is Essential to Intellectual Freedom

Censorship

• Orange City residents call for special treatment of library books on LGBTQ issues | Sioux City Journal (IA)
  • Drive to ban library books with LGBTQ content erupts in Orange City | Des Moines Register (IA)
• Professor’s view: Removing books won’t make a problem disappear | Duluth News Tribune
• Librarian’s view: Meaningful dialogue can come now | Duluth News Tribune
• Tech giants should resist Russia’s iron grip of censorship | Washington Post
• Board removes ‘trashy’ book from CHS library | Cody Enterprise (WY)
  • EDITORIAL: Censorship is a slippery slope | Cody Enterprise (WY)
• Schools, parents and books | Springfield News-Leader
• Artspace censors nudes in exhibition about body positivity | City Pages (MN)
• Parkland shooting survivor claims CNN tried to censor his town hall question | The Week
• Scientists step in after Idaho lawmakers remove climate curriculum |  Think Progress
• Lady Chatterley’s censor: The man’s continued push to save us from ourselves | The Big Smoke (Australia)

Privacy

• Facebook’s tracking of non-users ruled illegal again | TechCrunch
• The CLOUD Act: A Dangerous Expansion of Police Snooping on Cross-Border Data | Electronic Frontier Foundation
• Encryption in the U.S.: Crypto Colloquium Outcomes Report | Access Now
• Chrome will mark all HTTP sites as ‘not secure’ starting in July | The Verge
• Neil Gorsuch is shaping up to be an unlikely defender of your privacy  | Vice
• Facebook has been sharing our data for months to help study income inequality | Ars Technica
• Amazon Go store offers quicker checkout for greater data collection | Brookings Institute
• Guide to the General Data Protection Regulation: Children | ICO.org

See this week’s additional privacy news and updates on the Choose Privacy Week blog.

Net Neutrality and Broadband Access

• The FCC Officially Published Its Net Neutrality Repeal … Now the Lawsuits Begin | Motherboard
• As protection ends, here’s one way to test for net neutrality | Wired
• Why states might win the net neutrality war against the FCC | Ars Technica
• We still don’t know when net neutrality rules will come off the books | Ars Technica

Access

• ACRL releases Applying Library Values to Emerging Technology: Decision-Making in the Age of Open Access, Maker Spaces, and the Ever-Changing Library
• The Tempe Declaration extending access to information through offline internet | InfoDocket
• Libraries are not for everyone until librarianship can be for everyone | Medium

Free Press, Social Media, and Fake News

• Erasing history | Columbia Journalism Review
• Free Speech and the Necessity of Discomfort | The New York Times
• Dead reckoning: Navigating content moderation after “fake news” | Data & Society
• The promises, challenges, and futures of media literacy | Data & Society
• Could Europe’s New Data Protection Regulation Curb Online Disinformation? | Council on Foreign Relations
• Biologist Gets a Fake Star Trek Paper Accepted by 4 Dodgy Science Journals | Science Alert

Academic Freedom and Campus Speech

• Group plans to stop Richard Spencer’s speech at MSU | WILX (MI)
• China is infiltrating U.S. colleges | Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
• After 2016 election, campus hate crimes seemed to jump. Here’s what the data tell us. | Chronicle for Higher Education
• Email Crime and Punishment | Inside Higher Ed
• Academic senate says Woody Allen class will stay | The Triton (CA)
• Arguments that harm — and why we need them | Chronicle of Higher Education
• The University of Chicago puts its principles to the test | The Economist

First Amendment and Free Speech

• Planners of Deadly Charlottesville Rally Are Tested in Court | New York Times
• Protesters attempt to shut down author event at Green Apple | American Booksellers Association
• Is federal data misstating the state of hate? | Pacific Standard
• Law allowing actors to censor publication of their ages violates First Amendment, judge rules | ABA Journal
• First Amendment rights for student protesters: A resource | National Coalition Against Censorship
• School walkouts in the wake of ‘Parkland’–protected by the First Amendment or not? | Newseum Institute
• Public Unions vs. the First Amendment | Wall Street Journal

Around the Web

• The Catholic Index of Forbidden Books: A brief history | OIF Blog
• Intellectual freedom: Where do we draw the line? | OIF Blog
• Sex scene rules would be ‘censorship’ star says | BBC
• U.S. poet laureate talks free speech, visiting rural areas | The Emory Wheel
• Starkville aldermen reject gay pride parade | Daily Journal (MS)
• Unpacking Anne Ursu’s survey and the fallout, with Changes Coming to Events | Sexual Harassment in Children’s Publishing | School Library Journal
• Lionel Shriver says ‘politically correct censorship’ is damaging fiction | The Guardian

International Issues

• Fire at sacred Tibetan Buddhist temple sparks suspicion about censorship | Telegraph Herald
• Malaysian court jails, fines artist for clown caricature of PM | New York Times
• Closing windows.. censorship of the internet in Egypt | IFEX
• Fahmi Reza artist fined, sentenced to prison | Comic Book Legal Defense Fund
• Canceling plans for a China campus | Inside Higher Ed
• Turkey under Erdogan: Our academic colleague is on trial for signing a petition | USA Today
• Turkey: Draft bill would extend censorship powers over the Internet | IFEX
• Freedom of expression at Spain’s art fair ARCO | El Pais
  • Spanish artist decries censorship after work dropped from art fair | The Guardian

ALA News

• Dewey Decibel podcast bonus episode: Inside the 2018 Youth Media Awards | American Libraries
• A guide to LGBTQAI+ books for children and teens
• American Library Association announces 2018 youth media award winners
• New eCourse—Online Privacy & Security: Best Practices for Librarians. 5-week facilitated eCourse starting on Monday, March 12, 2018.

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