Intellectual Freedom News 3/30/18
March 30, 2018 – Collated by OIF Staff and News Editors
Intellectual Freedom Highlights
Censorship
- We asked for Guantanamo’s book policy in 2013. It arrived this week, censored | St. Louis Post-Dispatch
- Books with LGBTQ-related themes face being banned from public libraries | The Daily Iowan
- Parents upset about book, movie choices at Linden schools | Tri-County Times (MI)
- Amazon Is Burying Sexy Books, Sending Erotic Novel Authors to the ‘No-Rank Dungeon’ | Motherboard
- Walmart Pulls Cosmo From Checkout. Plus! Guess Who’s Claiming Victory. | The New York Times
Privacy
- A needle in a legal haystack could sink a major Supreme Court privacy case | NPR
- The next cold war is here and it’s all about data | Wired
- Apple Revamps Privacy Controls to Comply With New European Law| Bloomberg
- DOJ renews push to require access to encrypted devices | Endgadget
- Are you ready? This is all the data Facebook and Google have on you | The Guardian
- Facebook Introduces Central Page for Privacy and Security Settings | The New York Times
- What to look for in your Facebook data – and how to find it | Wired
- The Cambridge Analytica data apocalypse was predicted in 2007 | Wired
- Facebook will (soon) yank third-party ad data in the name of privacy | Ars Technica
- Cambridge Analytica and Facebook | Choose Privacy Week (collecting and updating news links, and providing information about privacy self defense.)
See this week’s additional privacy news and updates on the Choose Privacy Week blog.
Net Neutrality and Broadband Access
- AT&T/Verizon lobbyists to “aggressively” sue states that enact net neutrality | Ars Technica
- Meet the Oregon middle schoolers fighting for net neutrality | Gizmodo
- Is net neutrality the sleeper issue for Democrats in 2018? | The Nation
Access
- Long-proprietary Congressional Research reports will now be made public | Government Executive
- Community Focus: Library has many options for Spanish speakers | OKC Fox (Oklahoma)
- How digital lending service Hoopla bring libraries into the internet era | Forbes
- Oakland Technical High students form group to advocate for library access | SF Gate; “California has the worst ratio in the nation for librarians to public school students — there is only one for every 7,000 students. Oakland Technical High School has had a library with no librarian for years. Recently, a group of students turned a class assignment about social justice into a new group, which they called Students for Library Improvement.”
Free Press, Social Media, and Fake News
- Reddit and the Struggle to Detoxify the Internet | The New Yorker
- Wall Street Journal staffers accuse editor of suppressing story | Politico
- Google defeats lawsuit claiming YouTube censors conservatives | Business Insider
- A brief history of YouTube censorship | Motherboard
- Censorship, content moderation, and social media | IF Blog
Filters and Internet Access
- Farewell to Craigslist’s Personals Section, an Artifact of the Older, Weirder Web | Slate
- Lawmaker withdraws anti-porn bill, citing ‘dubious origins’ | AP News
- Elizabeth Smart demands porn bill backer stop using her name | AP News
- Lawmaker says he feels misled on anti-porn bill | Longview News-Journal (RI)
Academic Freedom and Campus Speech
- Georgia House passes college campus speech bill | Atlanta Journal Constitution
- Survey looks at evolving student views on First Amendment as UNC struggles with free speech questions | NC Policy Watch
- Code red to code yellow: University of Hawaii-Manoa updates its policies to earn a better free speech rating | Washington Examiner
- When “free speech” is a marketing ploy | Slate
First Amendment and Free Speech
- Student journalists win decades-long fight against censorship | The Seattle Times
- New free speech bill protects young journalists | IF Blog
- Can anti-profanity laws and the fighting words doctrine be squared with the First Amendment? | Newseum Institute
- Students made noise and put the best of the First Amendment on display | Newseum Institute
- Not your grandmother’s free speech | IF Blog
Around the Web
- Canceled deals and pulped books, as the publishing industry confronts sexual harassment | The New York Times
- School librarians fear a ‘quiet crisis’ is endangering their place in the education world | The Nevada Independent
- Spending bill includes big increases for libraries | American Libraries
- Who doesn’t read books in America? | Pew Fact Tank
- Why kids need LGBTQ+ middle-grade books | IF Blog
International Issues
- Uzbek journalists, critics still face censorship, ‘selective prosecution’ | Radio Free Europe
- “Fake News” offers Latin American consolidated powers an opportunity to censor opponents | EFF
- Spanish court bans ‘Don Quixote’ tool to read forbidden book | Deutsch Welle
- Spanish booksellers deploy ‘Don Quixote’ in free speech battle | The Christian Science Monitor
- Balancing rights and the right to be forgotten | The Globe and Mail (Canada)
- Markham library apologizes for censoring photo exhibit | Toronto City News
- Turkey gives its aggressive TV censor control over the web | Bloomberg
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