Intellectual Freedom News 3/1/2019
March 1, 2019 – Collated by OIF Staff and News Editors
Highlight
Censorship
- Group asks school district to remove 14 books from libraries | Ocala Star Banner (FL)
- Library under fire for sexually explicit subscription box material | Messenger-Inquirer (KY)
- Proposed censorship bill voted down in Maine | OIF Blog
- State reps have heated debate over libraries, drag queens, First Amendment | WYFF (SC)
- Kids love Drag Queen storytime. Anti-LGBT groups want to shut them down. | The Daily Beast
Privacy
- Consumer Privacy Before Congress This Week: What We Learned and What’s Next | Public Knowledge
- Nevada Senator takes on racial ad targeting in new data privacy bill | The Verge
- GAO Report Recommends Congress Consider Comprehensive Privacy Regulation | National Law Journal
- The citizenship question & the 2020 census | OIF Blog
- You give apps sensitive personal information. Then they tell Facebook. | Wall Street Journal
- No, Data Is Not the New Oil | Wired
- People are concerned about their privacy in theory, not practice, says new study | Fortune
- Chief privacy officers: The unicorns of K-12 education | EdSurge
- Privacy Lawsuits Against Tech Firms Are Rising. Here’s Why | Fortune
- Digital Legal Dilemma: Who Owns Data After Death? | Z6 Magazine
- Storing health records on your phone: Can Apple live up to its privacy values? | NPR
- Washington state’s consumer privacy act takes next step toward passage | IAPP
Access
- Why California libraries are ditching fines on overdue materials | CALMatters
- The inclusive internet index 2019 | The Economist
- Open access is going mainstream. Here’s why that could transform academic life. | Chronicle of Higher Education
- Iowa librarians win legislative victory and more | School Library Journal
Net Neutrality and Broadband Access
- The President and Congress Are Thinking of Changing This Important Internet Law | Slate
- House GOP leaders urge engagement on net neutrality bills | Broadcasting & Cable
- Idaho internet speed? Nearly worst in U.S. Here’s how we improve (if this @%# page loads) | Idaho Statesman
- Pew initiative to study broadband access hurdles | Government Technology
- Net neutrality fake-off shows politics are messed up | Forbes
- Former FCC chair Tom Wheeler says the internet needs regulation | Wired
Fake News, Free Press, Social Media
- ‘Sustained and ongoing’ disinformation assault targets Dem presidential candidates | Politico
- How 18th century information wars can solve the problem of 21st century ‘fake news’ | Washington Post
- EU officials say Facebook, Twitter, Google failing in “fake news” battle | Ars Technica
- What happens when you get off Facebook for four weeks? Stanford researchers found out. | ReCode
Academic Freedom & Campus Speech
- Tinker at 50: Student rights move forward? | American Bar Association
- Delaying fellowship didn’t breach academic freedom, committee says | Minnesota Daily
First Amendment and Free Speech
- Supreme Court grapples with cross on public land in major First Amendment case | ABC News
- Does the First Amendment apply to public-access cable? | The Economist
- The Trump administration wants to censor doctors. It’s unprecedented–and unethical | Washington Post
Around the Web
- Anchorage activists form ‘queen’s guard’ to protect LGBT events | Southern Poverty Law Center
- Friends, foundations, & trustees: Allies in intellectual freedom | OIF Blog
- Reading teen romance: A mother’s intellectual freedom gut-check | OIF Blog
- Music and radio censorship continuously fails | 71 Republic
- Dr. Seuss books can be racist, but students keep reading them | NPR
- Top 20 must influential banned books revealed | The Bookseller
- Why was The Satanic Verses so controversial? | The Week
International Issues
- Chinese internet users turn to the blockchain to fight against government censorship | The Conversation
- Bangladesh ‘anti-porn war’ bans blogs and Google books | DW
- Censorship and silence: south-east Asia suffers under press crackdown | The Guardian
- Censored on WeChat: As tensions in China-US trade conflict rose, so did WeChat censorship | Hong Kong Free Press
- WA school library temporarily bans Harry Potter books | Books and Publishing (Australia)
- China extends its censorship to Australian books, written by Australian authors for Australian readers | TechDirt
ALA News
- Freedom to Read Foundation offers 2019 Banned Books Week grants
- Call for nominations: 2019 Freedom to Read Foundation Roll of Honor
- Learn how your library can fight fake news at the 2019 ALA Annual Conference
- Revised Library Bill of Rights interpretations adopted at Seattle Midwinter Meeting
- ALA Executive Board releases statement regarding incident at Council Forum
- New workshop: Active Shooter Training for Library Employees
- Applications due March 8 for 2019 ALA Leadership Institute
- Hateful conduct in libraries: A new ALA resource
- New E-Course on the First Amendment and Library Services Begins March 4
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