Intellectual Freedom News 4/6/18
Intellectual Freedom Highlights
- Updating the Intellectual Freedom Manual | Knowledge Quest; “The Office for Intellectual Freedom (OIF) and the ALA Intellectual Freedom Committee (IFC) has started the process for revising the 9th edition of the Intellectual Freedom Manual published in 2015.”
- Reminder: Make A Giant Leap for Patron Privacy: Prepare for CPW2018 with A Free Webinar on Library Privacy Audits
Censorship
- Tensions rise with allegations of ‘censorship’ at the Wall Street Journal | Columbia Journalism Review
- Public invited to comment on appeal of ‘Mockingbird’ decision, process | Herald-Independent (WI)
- Florida federal prison bans families from mailing books, greeting cards | Miami New Times
- Kremlin calls Facebook’s removal of Russian media accounts censorship | Reuters
- Commentary: Making the world safe through censorship | Washington Times
- Military censorship in films paints unrealistic image of military life | The Valley Vanguard (MI)
- Unexplained censorship of women’s health website renews questions about Trump administration commitment to public health | Sunlight Foundation
- ‘Fake News’ Threat to Media; Editorial Decisions, Outside Actors at Fault | Monmouth University Polling Institute
- Congress just legalized sex censorship: What to know | Engadget
Privacy
- Facebook Exposed 87 Million Users to Cambridge Analytica | Wired
- The Supreme Court fight over Microsoft’s foreign servers is over | The Verge The newly passed CLOUD Act ends US v. Microsoft before a decision is reached.
- California Supreme Court upholds collection of DNA from suspected felons not yet convicted of a crime | Orange County Register
- Truckers take on Trump over electronic surveillance rules | Wired
- Everything you need to know about a new EU data law that could shake up big US tech | CNBC
- There will be little privacy in the workplace of the future | The Economist
See this week’s additional privacy news and updates on the Choose Privacy Week blog.
Net Neutrality and Broadband Access
Access
- Opinion: More than books: Libraries act as compasses for the community | Marion Star (OH)
- Congress orders USDA to restore transparency, completeness, to animal welfare reports | Science
- College Students Prefer Print for Long-form Reading, Ebooks for Research (Survey) | Library Journal
Free Press, Social Media, and Fake News
- Press Freedoms in 2017 | Reporters’ Committee for a Free Press (March, 2018 U.S. Press Freedom Tracker Report)
- How do you identify fake news? | ProPublica
- The Paris lawyer who gives Google nightmares | NPR
- Poll: 77 percent say major news outlets report ‘fake news‘ | Politico
- Views of American democracy based on internet search data | Brookings Institute
- Sinclair’s ‘Orwellian’ attack on the press | Columbia Journalism Review
- Sinclair: Next time, just put your name in the message | Newseum Institute; “Sinclair Broadcasting’s recent promotional message on the state of today’s news — delivered to its TV audiences nationwide — is as protected by the First Amendment as it was an oafish attempt to hide corporate messaging under the veneer of local news reporting.”
Libraries and Hate Speech
- White nationalist materials found in libraries | Bennington Banner (VT)
Academic Freedom and Campus Speech
- The iGeneration, inclusivity, and free speech on college campuses | Los Angeles Times
- Dickey part two…now what’s the deal? | OIF Blog
- The role of libraries in free campus speech | OIF Blog
- Holy Cross dean defends ‘academic freedom’ of embattled professor | Telegram.com (MA)
- Artistic Expression or Harassment? | Inside Higher Ed; “Two professors resign from MassArt following harassment allegations. Are art schools taking a harder line against professors in era of Me Too? Are academic and artistic freedom at risk?”
- Why Are Businesses Intervening in a Wisconsin Academic Freedom Case? | The Weekly Standard
- Massachusetts bishop calls for professor to disavow “blasphemous” views on sexuality of Jesus | Crux
- Campus clashes over free speech | Chronicle for Higher Education
- Red, Yellow, or Green? A University System Color-Codes Its Presidents’ Political Speech to Try to Regulate It | Chronicle for Higher Education
- How One University Wants to Teach Students to Use Data | Chronicle for Higher Education
First Amendment and Free Speech
- California nurse claims hospital fired her over Stephon Clark comment | Fox News
- Republican governor forced to stop blocking Facebook users who criticize him | Ars Technica
Around the Web
- Quixotic approaches to circumventing censorship, using books and music | TechDirt
- April Foolswatch 2018: Our favorite pranks and hoaxes from this year | American Libraries
- The sanctification — and sanitization — of Martin Luther King Jr. | Vox
- Dr. King’s legacy founded in free speech | Courier-Tribune (NC)
- Oklahoma mother explains why she is embarrassed her kid has school book used by Blake Shelton | Oklahoma’s News 4
- Why the Christian right opposes pornography but still supports Trump | The Conversation
International Issues
- The case of Hong Kong’s missing booksellers | New York Times
- China cracks down on sale of bible amid Vatican talks | The Telegraph
- Self-Censorship and the State: Evaluating Progress on Free Speech in Uzbekistan | The Diplomat
- Four things Benny Tai should know about ‘free speech’ and the clash of freedoms | South China Morning Post
- Iranian TV censors Italian football badge | BBC
- China: Free Anti-Censorship Activist | Human Rights Watch; “Zhen Jianghua held incommunicado, denied access to lawyer”
- In new Holocaust controversy, Lithuanian law would ban books critical of country | Times of Isreal
- New anti-fake news law by Malaysia sparks censorship fears | The Hans India
- Turkish internet broadcasting law “not censorship”, claims regulator | Ahval
- Using social media to tackle censorship of condom ads in Islamic republic | Daily Times (Pakistan)
- How feminists in China are using emoji to avoid censorship | Wired
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