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
  • “This is censorship.” : W.S.J. editor tamps down on this “income inequality” nonsense| Vanity Fair
• 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.
  • The CLOUD Act could hurt human rights around the world | Slate
• 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

• Online gaming could be stalled by net neutrality repeal, ESA tells court | Ars Technica

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

• New workshop: Creating a Social Media Policy for Your Library

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