Intellectual Freedom News 3/8/2019
March 8, 2019 – Collated by OIF Staff and News Editors
Highlight
- 50 years after Tinker, erosion is evident | CBLDF; “February marked the 50th anniversary of the United States Supreme Court’s decision in Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District¸ a seminal case addressing students’ First Amendment rights. While the Court has professed a continuing recognition that schools may not prohibit speech on the basis of viewpoint, the reasoning of these decisions have, so far, tended to support Justice Black’s dissent in Tinker that the First Amendment does not require “elected school officials to surrender control of the American public school system to public school students” and that “taxpayers send children to school on the premise that at their age they need to learn, not teach.”
Censorship
- Bill to censor ‘obscene’ literature rejected | University of Southern Maine Free Press
- Michael Jackson episode removed from ‘The Simpsons’ | Variety
- New legislation “fixes” FL textbook law in worst ways possible | CBLDF
- Editorial: Book banning a slippery slope | Ocala Star Banner
Privacy
- Facing the Future of Surveillance | The Project On Government Oversight (POGO)
- Disputed N.S.A. phone program is shut down, aide says | The New York Times
- Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg says he’ll reorient the company toward encryption and privacy | The Washington Post
- U.S. tracked activists and journalists as migrant caravans headed to the border | The New York Times
- EU Data Protection Rules and U.S. Implications | Congressional Research Service
- To exhibit or not to exhibit? Privacy concerns and library exhibits | OIF Blog
- The right to be forgotten versus the need to backup | Continuity Central
Access
- U. of California system cancels Elsevier subscriptions, calling move a win for open access | The Chronicle of Higher Education
- Bill to bring libraries to NYC jails faces opposition from the correction department | Gothamist
- The Vatican will unseal the archives of Pius XII, the controversial Holocaust-era pope | Smithsonian Magazine
- Beyond the battle for open access | Inside Higher Ed
Net Neutrality and Broadband Access
- Social justice or inequality: The heart of the Net Neutrality debate | Benton
- Democrats’ net neutrality bill would fully restore Obama-era FCC rules | Ars Technica
- Municipal broadband internet: The next public utility? | Smart Cities Dive
Fake News, Free Press, Social Media
- What Happens if the Law Starts Treating Facebook and Twitter Like Traditional Publishers? | Pacific Standard
- Students of Truth | Columbia Journalism Review
Academic Freedom & Campus Speech
- School Must Face Free-Speech Suit by Conservative Pundit | Courthouse News
- A right hook in Berkeley revives debate over campus speech | The New York Times
- Trump promises executive order that could strip colleges of funding if they don’t ‘support free speech’ | The Washington Post
- Legal scholars don’t know the details of Trump’s order on campus speech. But they think it’s a mistake | The Chronicle of Higher Education
- Professors explain how Trump’s free speech executive order actually hurts free speech | Observer
- Commentary: Thank goodness Trump is here to save free speech | The Chronicle of Higher Education
- Federal Action Regarding Free Expression on Campuses | University of Chicago
- A professor has long used a racial slur in class to teach free-speech law. No more, he says. | The Chronicle of Higher Education
- A Free Speech Purist Opts Not to Use the N-Word | Inside Higher Education
First Amendment and Free Speech
- Supreme Court denies religious building preservation funds case | NPR
- The Supreme Court Is Quietly Changing the Status of Religion in American Life | The New Yorker
- A century of rulings: How the Supreme Court has remade free speech | The Washington Post
- Schenck v. United States, 100 years later | OIF Blog
- Hip-hop artists give the Supreme Court a primer on rap music | The New York Times
- Texas appeals court rules defendant’s free-speech rights not violated by introduction of his no-snitching tattoo into evidence | Freedom Forum Institute
Around the Web
- Blockchain Reaction | American Libraries
- Nobel Prize in literature to be awarded again | Nobel Prize
- National Coalition Against Censorship publishes “Defend LGBTQ Stories” resource | Bookweb.org
- Second judge rules citizenship question on census illegal, Supreme Court to decide | KALB
- US ranks third among G20 nations in Google censorship requests | Axios
- Most influential banned book revealed | The Bookseller
- Balancing perceptions of historical truth in schools | OIF Blog
International Issues
- German data privacy commissioner says Article 13 inevitably leads to filters, which inevitably lead to internet “oligopoly” | EFF
- The guardians of the French language are deadlocked, just like their country | The New York Times
- Leaked memo suggests that Google has not really canceled its censored, spying Chinese search tool | Boing Boing
- China’s censors pull BBC broadcast from the air as it mentioned Uyghur Muslims | New Corp Australia Network
- Croatian journalists rally against censorship | Radio Free Europe
- Hundreds protest Hong Kong student’s from university in row over free speech | The New York Times
- New Russian bill introduces punishment for insulting state | The New York Times
ALA News
- Freedom to Read Foundation offers 2019 Banned Books Week grants
- Call for nominations: 2019 Freedom to Read Foundation Roll of Honor
- 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
- Applications due March 8 for 2019 ALA Leadership Institute
- Hateful conduct in libraries: A new ALA resource
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