Intellectual Freedom News 3/9/2018
March 9, 2018 – Collated by OIF Staff and News Editors
Intellectual Freedom Highlights
- Lost, stolen or censored? | OIF Blog; “I argue that when a person hides materials, defaces materials or steals materials from the library, they are also denying access to ideas and information that is constitutionally protected by our First Amendment. When the intent is clearly to suppress ideas thought to be objectionable or offensive, it is censorship.”
- Talking to Kids About Intellectual Freedom | OIF Blog; “Adults can advocate for themselves. Teens, though sometimes stymied by school boards and a need for parental consent, have some agency. But what does advocating for intellectual freedom mean for kids?”
Censorship
- Avid pulls out of Athens Academy book fair after being told to remove book with gay characters | Flagpole
- Censored book sparks controversy: Library expects more interest after text leaves CHS | Cody Enterprise
- Column: Trash is in the eye of the beholder | Cody Enterprise
- Interest in book spikes after removal from high school | Gillette News Record
- Anti-censorship bill for student journalists awaits Washington governor’s signature | Seattle Times
- Podcast: Censoring student journalists | Newseum Institute
- West Ada middle schools told to pull controversial book from its libraries | Idaho Statesman
- Parents petition to remove controversial book from Midland Public Schools curriculum | 25 News (MI)
- Reader’s view: Banning books doesn’t help healing | Duluth News Tribune (MN)
- Banning books isn’t about helping students | Pamplin Media Group (OR)
- Reader’s view: Books give us a glimpse of diversity | Midland Daily News
- Monona Grove parents’ request to remove Harper Lee book denied | Madison.com (WI)
- State axes annotations used to guide literature policy changes | Thousand Oaks Acorn (CA)
- Using money as censorship | Hutchinson News
- The gray market: Why art censorship is built into Facebook’s DNA (and other insights) | artnet News
Privacy
- We can, but should we? | American Libraries; “Imagine having access to information about every one of your community members and whether and how they use the library. You could tailor your communications and target those who might need services the most.”
- Privacy at the Margins | International Journal of Communications
- MoviePass CEO proudly says the app tracks your location before and after movies | TechCrunch
- How close is an American right-to-be-forgotten? | Forbes
- Your data is crucial to a robotic age. Shouldn’t you be paid for it? | New York Times
- The Feds Can Now (Probably) Unlock Every iPhone Model In Existence | Forbes
- Russian influence campaign extracted Americans’ personal data | Wall Street Journal
- Covert ‘replay sessions’ have been harvesting passwords by mistake | Wired
See this week’s additional privacy news and updates on the Choose Privacy Week blog.
Net Neutrality and Broadband Access
- Washington State enacts net neutrality law, in clash with FCC | Wired
- GOP tries to block state net neutrality laws and allow paid prioritization | Ars Technica
- U.S. appeals court in San Francisco will hear net neutrality appeal | Reuters
Access
- Make Partnerships, Not Permission Slips: Seven Intellectual Freedom Tips for Classroom Reading | OIF Blog
- Jason Reynolds calls school libraries “places of recognition for young people” in new PSA | Knowledge Quest
- Nearly one-in-five Americans now listen to audiobooks | Pew Research
- The Trump appointee behind the move to add a citizenship question to the census | ProPublica
Filters
- Rhode Island bill would impose fee for accessing porn online | DSL Reports
- Free online porn? Not anymore, if these proposed laws get passed | Miami Herald
- Five senators agree: Search engines should censor drug information | TechDirt
- How ‘sex trafficking’ just opened the censorship floodgates | Engadget
Free Press, Social Media, and Fake News
- The Grim Conclusions of the Largest-Ever Study of Fake News: Falsehoods almost always beat out the truth on Twitter | The Atlantic
- Most major outlets have used Russian tweets as sources for partisan opinion: study | Columbia Journalism Review
- For Two Months, I Got My News From Print Newspapers. Here’s What I Learned. | The New York Times
Academic Freedom and Campus Speech
- Georgia’s colleges are suppressing Christian cpeech | National Review
- Posters removed in Ellis Library not related to student group’s petition | Missourian
- No end in sight for campus free speech battles | Inside Higher Ed
- New advocacy group aims to back free speech on college campuses | Associations Now
- Auburn University Honors College faces backlash after White Student Union event | WSFA (AL)
- White Nationalist’s Lawsuit Against University Set for Trial | New York Times
First Amendment and Free Speech
- We’re All Fascists Now | The New York Times
- Mississippi town to allow gay pride parade, reversing denial | AP News
- Judge to Trump: Muting, not blocking followers, may end suit | AP News
- On the front lines of free speech | OIF Blog; “In educational settings, educators are preparing students for life where there are rooms filled with all forms of conflicting ideas and practices.”
- Student rights | Knowledge Quest
- Controversial speaker sparks outcry: Protest leads to arrest at Eugene library | Eugene Weekly
- Op-Ed: Let Spencer speak | Michigan Daily
- Teacher handcuffed: School board accused of stifling debate | New York Times
Around the Web
- ‘A Wrinkle in Time’s’ long religious controversy | History
- Madeleine L’Engle’s Christianity was vital to A Wrinkle in Time | Vox
- Subtle censorship: A gateway to sovereignty | The Corvallis Advocate
- 10 books you didn’t know were banned in prisons | Oxygen
- Comics, education, and advocacy | American Libraries
- Banned books for every woman | My Republica
- How did a modernist landmark end up covered in plywood and graffiti? | The Inquirer (PA)
International Issues
- Data protection in Europe is about to transform: Here’s how | CNBC
- Slowdown of social media platforms as TRC starts monitoring content | Sunday Times in Sri Lanka
- In Sri Lanka, Facebook contends with shutdown after mob violence | New York Times
- Cambridge apologises for blocking Palestinian from chairing talk | Aljazeera
- Palestinian journalists protest Facebook censorship | Middle East Monitor
- TEDxBrussels organizer drags presenter off stage during anti-censorship talk | Mashable
- WeChat Becomes More Censored By Government In China | Information Security Buzz
- Turkey: State broadcaster censors music | Egypt Independent
- Google gets sued for denying “right to be forgotten” request | SC Magazine UK
- After netizens criticized Xi Jinping, China banned a Quora-like app for not censoring enough content | Business Insider
- SA returns to apartheid-era censorship with the ‘banning’ of Inxeba | News 24 (South Africa)
- Cross-border collaboration: the antidote to censorship and press intimidation in Thailand | International Coalition of Investigative Journalists
- New Senate Bill proposes death sentence for hate speech | Premium Times (Niger)
- China Presses Its Internet Censorship Efforts Across the Globe | New York Times
- Ramòn Esono Ebalè Released from False Imprisonment | CBLDF
ALA News
- Lindsey Whittington receives Immroth Award
- ALA and AASL release joint statement on Florida Senate Bill 7026
- New eCourse—Sign Language for Children in Storytime or in the Classroom: A Practical Guide
- New eCourse—Online Privacy & Security: Best Practices for Librarians. 5-week facilitated eCourse starting on Monday, March 12, 2018.
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