Intellectual Freedom News 5/10/19
May 10, 2019 – Collated by OIF Staff and News Editors
Highlights
- Reading Dangerously: Celebrating FTRF’s 50th Anniversary; The Freedom to Read Foundation is celebrating its 50th anniversary and publishing a book to commemorate the work of the foundation.
- Libraries Close the Gap on Unequal Privacy During Choose Privacy Week 2019: Celebrate #ChoosePrivacy Week May 1 – May 7, 2019.
Censorship
- CBS censors a ‘Good Fight’ segment. Its topic was Chinese censorship. | New York Times
- Should schools be allowed to censor student newspapers? | New York Times
- Protesters oppose children’s story hour at Bay View Community Center | Bay View Compass
- Public library event for ‘P Is for Palestine’ author Sparks Outrage in Highland Park | Jewish Link (NJ)
- Activists want a San Francisco high school mural removed, saying its impact today should overshadow the artist’s intentions | Alton Telegraph
- LGBT book bill faces local opposition | Effingham Daily News
- Letter to the Editor: Concerns raised about books for eighth-graders | Echo Press (MN)
Choose Privacy Week 2019 Online Symposium
- Why Privacy Matters
- I Didn’t Want to Know That!” Maintaining privacy from incidental revelations
- Humility in Libraries: Finding Balance in Creating Coverage for Immigrants
- Does student safety take precedence over the freedom to read?
- The L Word
- Reasonable Accommodation vs Privacy: Challenges of an Ability-Centered World
- Queer but not Out: The Importance of Making Your Queer and Questioning Users Welcome
- I Went to Jail. Guess What? I Still Value My Rights and Care About My Privacy
- So how do you know each other? Privacy, Confidentiality and Adult Literacy
- Fighting surveillance is not impossible
- Inclusive Privacy: Resources and Readings for Choose Privacy Week 2019
Privacy
- Research Library Issues, no. 297 (2019): The Current Privacy Landscape | Association of Research Libraries
- Promises, Promises | Inside Higher Education; “Everyone tells us “your privacy is important to us,” even libraries. What happens to those promises?”
- Consumer groups accuse Amazon of illegally collecting data on children | Washington Post
- Millions of people uploaded photos to the Ever app. Then the company used them to develop facial recognition tools. | NBC News
- Biometrics can make schools safer, but privacy concerns persist | Education Dive
- Big Tech and the Rise of Surveillance Capitalism | Counterpunch
- Here’s what Apple, Facebook and Google really mean when they talk about “privacy” | Axios
- Why surveillance Is the climate change of the internet | The Atlantic
- Limit how long Google keeps your data with this overdue setting | Wired
- The 4 fastest ways to protect your online privacy | Fast Company
Access
- Chicago libraries are ‘failing’ their mission because of low staffing, Inspector General says | Block Club Chicago
- Porn or vital life lessons? California approves controversial new sex education approach | Sacramento Bee
- Parents protest California plan on sex-education school textbooks | Los Angeles Times
- Measuring diversity in the collection | Library Journal
Net Neutrality and Broadband Access
- Tech faces tough choices on rural broadband | The Hill
- FCC Battles ‘New York Times’ Over Net Neutrality Comments | MediaPost
Fake News, Free Press, Social Media
- Agnotology and Epistemological Fragmentation | danah boyd, Data & Society
- It’s time to break up Facebook | New York Times
- Facebook has the right to ban extreme voices, but it needs to tread lightly | Los Angeles Times
- The first rule of social-media censorship is that there are no rules | National Review
- Our brush with Google censorship | Wall Street Journal
- Trump tweets support for far-right figures banned by Facebook | CNN Business
- Sen. Hawley Blasts Social Media as Unproductive ‘Peril’ | Multichannel News
Academic Freedom & Campus Speech
- Academe, heal thyself: Reflections on the free speech executive order discussion at ACRL | OIF Blog
- The Commencement Speaker Shuffle | Volokh Conspiracy; “What is college graduation season without a few protests and disinvitations?”
- Colliding Values at Doane; | Inside Higher Education; “University library exhibit included photos of students from the 1920s in blackface. Now the library director is suspended — and some of her faculty colleagues say Doane made the wrong call.”
First Amendment and Free Speech
- First Amendment Center files first amicus brief in case on media access to public records | Freedom Forum Institute
- Losing our core freedoms by not knowing we have them | Freedom Forum Institute
- GA judge holds up student’s right to Be Heard | CBLDF
- Schools Teach Civics. Do They Model It? | Education Week
- What Are Students’ Constitutional Rights? | Education Week
Around the Web
- Bible classes in public schools are getting a big push from Christian conservatives — and it’s working | The Washington Post
- Safe spaces, self-censorship, and my aversion to Heathers | OIF Blog
- Intellectual freedom fighters, Part 3: Books to prison organizations | OIF Blog
- Moving post- post-Truth in a Trump biography for young readers by Martha Brockenbrough | OIF Blog
- Writer faces backlash after critics say poem advocates violence against children | WTHR (IN)
- 10 classic children’s books that haven’t aged well | Business Insider
International Issues
- Holocaust survivor opens book fair after neo-fascist banned | U.S. News & World Report
ALA News
- A conversation with U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor at the 2019 ALA Annual Conference & Exhibition in Washington, DC
- LITA learnings: Guiding students through digital citizenship, Thursday, May 16
- Freedom to Read Foundation Announces Intellectual Freedom Course and Scholarship Opportunities
- New session: Offering Service and Support to the LGBTQIA Community and Allies Workshop
- U.S. Department of Education Seeks Comments on IPEDS Changes by May 20
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