Intellectual Freedom News 3/30/19
March 30, 2019 – Collated by OIF Staff and News Editors
Highlight
- Learn with OIF: Privacy, Libraries, Patrons, and the Law eCourse
- Humble Bundle and No Starch Press launch charity promotion to benefit the Freedom to Read Foundation
- Freedom to Read Foundation offers 2019 Banned Books Week grants – Deadline: April 30, 2019.
Censorship
- Ranck praised for handling of library rancor | Ocean City Today
- Fulton cancels Drag Queen Storytime at Alpharetta library | Project Q Atlanta
- Longtime manager out at SC library that hosted Drag Queen Story Hour | Charlotte Observer
- Should we ban watching gun videos from our public libraries? | KXL News (OR)
- Plot twist: City aims to bring back drag queen reading hour this summer | Houston Chronicle
- Florida School book removal bill overhauled before first committee stop | Tampa Bay Times
- New Jersey lawmakers aim to end teaching of ‘Huckleberry Finn’ In Schools | CBS Philly
- Holy Fahrenheit 451: NJ eyes banning Huck Finn | New Jersey 101.5
- With vaccine misinformation, libraries walk a fine line | Undark
- ABFE criticizes Congressman for challenging Amazon on anti-vaccine titles | American Booksellers Association
- The role models: Evansville’s Drag Queen Story Hour shapes a new normal | Indiana Daily Student
Privacy
- Kanopy users’ streaming data exposed in library leak | Lake Oswego Review
- Elsevier exposes users’ emails and passwords online | Naked Security
- Lawmakers make bipartisan push to end NSA’s mass telephone data collection program | CBS News
- Consumer data privacy and the federal government | OIF Blog
- Utah just became a leader in digital privacy | Wired
- The state Senate version of the Washington Privacy Act: A summary | IAPP
- The privacy risks of unchecked facial-recognition technology | Seattle Times
- Dems renew call for privacy ‘Bill of Rights’ | Multichannel News
- The latest dark web cyber-criminal trend: Selling children’s personal data | ZDNet
- In the face of danger, we’re turning to surveillance | Wired
- Book Review: Surveillance Valley: The Secret Military History of the Internet | OIF Blog
Access
- Concerned library patrons prepare to make their case before library board | Fort Wayne NBC
- Anne Arundel County library approves LGBT-themed programs | Washington Blade
Net Neutrality and Broadband Access
- Net neutrality rule restoration bill clears first hurdle | Multichannel
- FCC claims on broadband access under scrutiny | The Hill
- Love streaming? Then don’t let distraction doom net neutrality legislation | Medium
- The wrong way and the right way on net neutrality | Information Technology & Innovation Foundation
- USTelecom: Reinventing broadband mapping is needed to close the digital divide | CNET
- Millions of Americans still can’t get broadband. Here’s a potential fix | CNET
- Is the Russian Internet a Lost Cause? | Slate
Fake News, Free Press, Social Media
- Twitter still won’t remove Trump’s tweets that violate its rules. But it will label them. | Washington Post
- Facebook says it will now block white nationalist, white separatist posts | Washington Post
- Stop outsourcing the regulation of hate speech to social media | The Conversation
- Terrorism bred online requires anticipatory, not reactionary coverage | Columbia Journalism Review
- Shrinking Newspapers and the Costs of Environmental Reporting in Coal Country | The New Yorker
- Republicans and Democrats have never been more divided on confidence in the media | Washington Post
Academic Freedom & Campus Speech
- Trump’s free-speech executive order: Required reading | Chronicle of Higher Education
- A first step toward restoring free speech on campus | Wall Street Journal
- Critics worry Trump’s free speech order could limit expression, research | Wall Street Journal
- How Trump’s executive order on campus free speech could affect colleges | PBS News Hour
- The campus free speech problem Trump doesn’t talk about | Inside Higher Education
- Suggestions to counter academic freedom threats from China | Inside Higher Ed
First Amendment and Free Speech
- Landmark free speech cases Sullivan & Tinker facing erosion after 50 years? | OIF Blog
- Free speech makes hypocrites of us all | Freedom Forum Institute
Around the Web
- Questioning Ethnic Portrayals; When Teachers Denigrate YA | Scales on Censorship | School Library Journal
- Happy birthday, Tim Federle! | OIF Blog
- Novels are not instruction manuals, and Nabokov’s Lolita is not an immoral book | New Statesman
- What is beautiful? Norfolk high school students reading “The Bluest Eye” break down racism | Virginian-Pilot
- Comics censorship crises past, present, and future – an inside look at CBLDF | CDLDF
International Issues
- How the “Great Firewall” extends beyond China | Salon
- EU copyright reforms pit creative industry against internet activists, consumers | Reuters
- Thousands protest against controversial EU internet law claiming it will enable online censorship | CNBC
- Jordan Peterson: anti-PC scholar dropped by Cambridge over Islamophobia shirt | The Times
- Jordan Peterson book returns to New Zealand bookshops after Christchurch attack | The Guardian
- New Zealand mosque killings spark debate over free speech | Japan Today
- French Muslim group sues internet giants over NZ massacre video | France 24
- Censor bans ‘manifesto’ of Christchurch mosque shooter | The Guardian
ALA News
- ALA, Library Copyright Alliance applaud appointment of Karyn A. Temple as Register of Copyrights
- ALA seeks candidates for endowment fund trustee openings
- Learn how your library can fight fake news at the 2019 ALA Annual Conference
- New workshop: Active Shooter Training for Library Employees
- Hateful conduct in libraries: A new ALA resource
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