Intellectual Freedom News 4/19/2019
April 19, 2019 – Collated by OIF Staff and News Editors
Highlights
Don’t #%?$ My Graphic Novels: Conquering Challenges and Protecting the Right to Read Wednesday, April 24, 2019 @ 6:00 p.m. CST – To celebrate School Library Month, AASL has gathered banned author Nick Bruel and school librarians to tell their stories of challenges to graphic novels and comics for this free webinar.- Choose Privacy Week (May 1 – 7) Resources
Censorship
- Book about LGBT champion sparks parents’ concern, support | Richmond Times-Dispatch (VA); “Pride: The story of Harvey Milk and the Rainbow Flag”
- Washington partially rescinds prison book ban | Publishers Weekly
- ACLU urges GA sheriff to rescind book ban | CBLDF
Privacy
- Honor system allows library patrons to borrow sensitive-topic books | Point Reyes Light
- Astoria Library updates user conduct policy | The Daily Astorian
- Man accused of installing video cameras in the Columbia Public Library arrested | Columbia Missourian
- Google’s Sensorvault is a boon for law enforcement. This is how it works. | The New York Times
- Facebook says it uploaded email contacts of up to 1.5 million users | The New York Times
Access
- Barnard College officers on leave after accusations of racial profiling | WLNY CBS New York
- Entering campus building while black | Inside Higher Ed
- Public libraries empower American taxpayers | Las Vegas Sun
- The real digital divide isn’t about access to the internet | The Washington Post
Net Neutrality and Broadband Access
- The biggest lies we heard about net neutrality this week | Gizmodo
- Net neutrality bill clears House of Representatives for the first time ever | Benton
- Report: 26 states now ban or restrict community broadband | Motherboard
Hate Speech in Libraries
Fake News, Free Press, Social Media
- TikTok brings Chinese-style censorship to America’s tweens | Bloomberg Businessweek
Academic Freedom & Campus Speech
- Do universities have a self-censorship problem? | The Washington Post
- The subtle erosion of academic freedom | Inside Higher Ed
- Ron DeSantis seeks free speech resolution allowing controversial speakers at Florida universities | Tampa Bay Times
- The past & future of free collecting with Liana Zhou, Kinsey Institute | OIF Blog
First Amendment and Free Speech
Around the Web
- 5-star phonies: Inside the fake Amazon review complex | The Hustle
- Spokane eliminates school librarians, continuing trend of disappearing school libraries | BookRiot
- The 2020 census & public libraries | Infospace Blog
- Imprisoned journalists & comic strip alum among Pulitzer winners | CBLDF
- LGBTQ community members tell Anne Arundel library board programs could save lives | Capital Gazette (MD)
- Indomitable murals remembered: The resurrection of Siqueiros’ América Tropical | OIF Blog
- To silence the mockingbird | OIF Blog
International Issues
- A Chinese social media platform is making it hard to use a popular LGBTQ hashtag | Quartz
- Bonn Library recovers more than 600 books looted after World War II | Smithsonian Magazine (Germany)
- Chinese professor suspended after speaking out about President Jinping | OIF Blog
- Barcelona school removes 200 sexist children’s books | The Guardian (Spain)
- World Press Freedom Index 2019 | Reporters Without Borders
- Brazil top court criticized for order to block news stories | The New York Times
- Europe looks to remold internet with new copyright rules | The New York Times
ALA News
- AASL and Scholastic announce ‘Pilkey Party @ Your School Library’ as part of School Library Month celebration
- Frank Miller and Tom Wheeler are Auditorium Speakers at the 2019 ALA Annual Conference & Exhibition in Washington, DC
- LITA Presents: Universal Parity to Resources
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