Intellectual Freedom News 4/13/18
Intellectual Freedom Highlights
- Top 10 Challenged Books: Resources & Graphics (video)
- Free Webinars!: Make A Giant Leap for Patron Privacy: Prepare for CPW2018 with A Free Webinar on Library Privacy Audits and Fake News or Free Speech: Is There a Right to be Misinformed? Sponsored by the Freedom to Read Foundation.
- Banned Books Week coalition declares that “Banning books silences stories” | OIF Blog
- Thirteen Reasons Why tops most challenged book list, amid rising complaints in US libraries | The Guardian
Censorship
- Monona Grove School Board deadlocks on ‘To Kill a Mockingbird,’ postpones decision | Wisconsin State Journal
- Texas board set to vote on Mexican-American studies course | The Brownsville Herald
- State Board of Education strips ‘Mexican-American Studies’ name from elective | San-Antonio Express News
- Banning books is not the answer | Las Cruces Sun News
- Librarians Lead Against Censorship OIF Blog Series:
Privacy
- IFLA provides input on the challenges to the right of privacy in the digital age | IFLA
- The Bargain at the Heart of the Kid Internet | The Atlantic
- Schools Choose Not to Delete Facebook Despite Data-Privacy Worries | Education Week
- Advocates Say Google Illegally Collects Kids’ Data From YouTube | Consumer Reports
- Senators propose legislation to protect the privacy of users’ online data after Facebook hearing | The Verge
- As Zuckerberg Smiles to Congress, Facebook Fights State Privacy Laws | Wired
- Are we headed for a pay-for-privacy world? | Publishers Weekly
- I downloaded the information that Facebook has on me. Yikes. | The New York Times
- How to check if Cambridge Analytics could access your Facebook data | Wired
See this week’s additional privacy news and updates on the Choose Privacy Week blog.
Net Neutrality and Broadband Access
Free Press, Social Media, and Fake News
- Colorado Group Pushes to Buy Embattled Denver Post From New York Hedge Fund | New York Times
- The era of fake video begins | The Atlantic
- Facebook is in crisis mode. The teacher strikes show it can still serve a civic purpose. |Vox
- How the FBI uses the Freedom of Information Act to track down whistleblowers | Washington Post
- 5 facts about Americans and Facebook | Pew Research Center FactTank
- 5 things to know about bots on Twitter | Pew Research Center FactTank
Academic Freedom and Campus Speech
- How the Internet age changes academic freedom | The Washington Post
- Facing censorship: A statement of guiding principles | AUPresses
- Why won’t the government let me study gun violence? | Pacific Standard
- Koch-funded “academic freedom” grifters run into trouble at Wellesley | BoingBoing
First Amendment and Free Speech
- Court Says Kentucky Governor Free To Block Critics Using Official Social Media Accounts | TechDirt
- Half of college students aren’t sure protecting free speech is important. That’s bad news | Los Angeles Times
- Legal analysis: Getting the numbers on college censorship | Student Press Law Center
Around the Web
- Intellectual freedom and youth: Practical and philosophical considerations | Knowledge Quest
- Asher, Alexie top ALA ‘Challenged Books’ list in wake of allegations | Publishers Weekly
- The 19th-century censor who pushed Americans too far | The Christian Science Monitor
- On getting punched in the face while working in the library | Cincinnatti.com
International Issues
- ‘Racist’ illustrations prompt Durham school boards, library to take a closer look at popular children’s series | Durham Region.com (Ontario, Canada)
- More than 130 academics sign open letter in support of historian Thum Ping Tjin, academic freedom | Today (Signapore)
- Some bristle at Iran’s offer of unfiltered Internet to a select few | Radio Free Europe
- China denies banning the Bible, accuses West of meddling | Asian Correspondent
- Ethiopians worried about internet censorship | Africanews
- Kremlin calls Facebook’s removal of Russian media accounts censorship | Business Insider
ALA News
- Brown wins 2019-2010 ALA Presidency | American Libraries
- State of America’s libraries 2018 | American Libraries
- New workshop: Creating a Social Media Policy for Your Library
- Letter signed on to by ALA raising objections to the inclusion of a citizenship question on the 2020 census.
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