Intellectual Freedom News 4/5/2019
April 5, 2019 – Collated by OIF Staff and News Editors
Highlight
- Colson Whitehead to Keynote Freedom to Read Foundation’s 50th Anniversary Celebration
- Learn with OIF: Privacy, Libraries, Patrons, and the Law eCourse
- Freedom to Read Foundation offers 2019 Banned Books Week grants – Deadline: April 30, 2019.
- ALA joins groups opposing census citizenship question | American Libraries
Censorship
- Washington prisoners may no longer be able to receive donated books | The Stranger
- A Va. university temporarily removes yearbooks with blackface from digital archives | The Washington Post
- College president sparks controversy by taking down blackface photos | The Chronicle of Higher Education
- Hollins University removes access to yearbooks with racist images | US News & World Report
- Censorship or safeguard? Groups challenge pre-pub review | ABC News; “Civil liberties groups are challenging review for publications authored by former intelligence agency employees”
- The government had to approve this op-ed | The New York Times
- Ex-national security officials sue to limit censorship of their books | The New York Times
- Protecting kids from porn? Assaulting free speech? Library critics take aim at public databases | The Colorado Sun
- Drag queen reading event at Alpharetta library removed from calendar | Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Privacy
- Utah – The First State to Require a Warrant for Third-Party Data | Data Privacy + Security Insider
- A DNA Company Wants You to Help Catch Criminals | The Atlantic
- Privacy experts: Focus on controlling damage caused by data collection | CNet
- Millions of sensitive Facebook user records were left exposed on public web, security researchers say | The Washington Post
- Student addresses flaws of library database, what Point Park can change | PPU Globe (Opinion)
Access
- Microsoft Store pulls the plug on ebooks, will offer refunds in July | CNet
- Affordable College Textbook Act reintroduced in Congress | SPARC
Net Neutrality and Broadband Access
- Net neutrality bill passes crucial committee vote | EFF
- House Democrats refuse to weaken net neutrality bill, defeat GOP amendment | Ars Technica
- Broadband affordability report: Nearly half of U.S. population lacks access to a low-price offering | Telecompetitor
Fake News, Free Press, Social Media
- Free speech or censorship? Social media litigation is a hot legal battleground | ABA Journal
- Facebook has a new tool that explains why you’re seeing certain posts on your news feed | CNBC
Academic Freedom & Campus Speech
- Free Speech Makes Hypocrites of Us All | Freedom Forum
- No free speech ‘crisis’ on campuses, Trump and legislators should leave discipline to administrators, report says | Newsweek
- If there is a free-speech ‘crisis’ on campus, PEN America says, lawmakers are making it worse | The Chronicle of Higher Education
- Chasm in the Classroom: Campus Free Speech in a Divided America | PEN America (report)
- Student activists demand the punishment of a dissenting professor | The Economist
First Amendment and Free Speech
- SD ACLU files First Amendment lawsuit against KXL protest bill | Rapid City Journal
- How fighting political disinformation could collide with the First Amendment | The Washington Post
- Missouri student journalists, teachers hope bill will stop censorship by school admins | St. Louis Public Radio
Around the Web
- Happy Birthday, Maya Angelou | OIF Blog
- Forget conventionalisms: A Susan B. post for Women’s History Month | OIF Blog
- With vaccine misinformation, libraries walk a fine line | Salon
International Issues
- Intellectual freedom fighters, part 2: Flash drives for freedom | OIF Blog
- Why Polish priests are burning Harry Potter | The Week UK
- Russia approves censorship legislation to crackdown on “Fake News” | Media File
- Australia passes law to punish social media companies for violent posts | The New York Times
- Factbox: ‘Fake News’ laws around the world | The New York Times
ALA News
- 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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