May 17, 2019 – Collated by OIF Staff and News Editors

Highlights

• Laurie Halse Anderson Joins Colson Whitehead at the FTRF’s 50th Anniversary Celebration

Censorship

• An Arizona prisoner was sent a book critical of the criminal justice system. Now, the state has banned it | The Root
• ACLU accuses ADC of violating inmates’ rights over banned book | KJZZ
• Misguided Ban on Used Books in Ohio Prisons Marks Troubling Erosion of the Right to Read | PEN America
• Waterville children’s bookstore gets backlash for drag queen event | CentralMaine.com
  • Counterprotest planned at Waterville Drag Queen Story Hour | CentralMaine.com
  • Waterville bookstore’s planned pride event has sparked protests | Maine Public Radio
• Westmont school board blocks effort to ban book | The Tribune-Democrat; ‘The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time’
• Instead of removal, Park Ridge library will add historical context to mural of Native Americans ceding land to government | Chicago Tribune
• Library reconsiders ‘P is for Palestine’ kids book reading after backlash from public | NJ.com
• Fun Home Lawsuit: Watchung Hills Sued Over Fun Home | TapIntoWarren Local News
• Kids pulled out of school over LGBTQIA curriculum | CBLDF (CA)
• ‘Pride: The Story of Harvey Milk and the Rainbow Flag’ challenged in Virginia school | NCAC

Privacy

• Voices of the Poor Must Be Heard in the Data Privacy Debate | Jurist
• Carnegie Library exhibit offers a Data Detox Kit, an eight-day, step-by-step guide to eliminating traces of your data online | Pittsburgh City Paper
• California bill to expand privacy protections fails | The New York Times
• San Francisco just banned facial-recognition technology | CNN
  • San Francisco is right: Facial recognition must be put on hold | The New York Times
  • Facial recognition’s many controversies, from stadium surveillance to racist software | The New York Times
• New York Proposal Would Ban Face Recognition Surveillance By Landlords | Gizmodo
• Centering civil rights in the privacy debate | New America
• Privacy + antitrust? | Politico
• What The NIST Privacy Framework Draft Means For Privacy and Cybersecurity | Security Boulevard

Access

• Lawmakers push to require librarians in public schools | Lansing City Pulse (Michigan)
• The Trump Admin is scrubbing Obamacare from government sites | Wired
• To meet the ‘Plan S’ open-access mandate, journals mull setting papers free at publication | Science Magazine
• LJ Textbook Affordability Survey: Costs still a concern, OER an opportunity | Library Journal

Net Neutrality and Broadband Access

• An update on broadband bills in the 116th Congress | Benton Foundation
• House Commerce Democrats propose $40 billion for broadband buildout in newest version of infrastructure bill | Benton Foundation
• Native American tribes across the country are pushing for better internet access | Time

Fake News, Free Press, Social Media

• Trump White House solicits examples of social media censorship | USA Today
  • White House escalates war against Facebook, Google and Twitter with a campaign asking users to share stories of censorship | The Washington Post
  • With social media ‘bias’ form, Trump uses the White House for personal politics | Columbia Journalism Review
  • The White House’s social media ‘bias’ survey has a terrible privacy policy | Mashable
• Alex Stamos on the security problems of the platforms’ content moderation, and what to do about them | BoingBoing
• 10 facts about Americans and Facebook | Pew Research Center Facttank
• Defending all of us by defending a free press | Freedom Forum Institute
• How social networks are recruiting teenage extremists | The Verge

Academic Freedom & Campus Speech

• Why one scholar sees little evidence on campus of a free-speech ‘crisis’ – but plenty of panic | The Chronicle of Higher Education
• Court hears arguments in Georgia campus speech dispute | Atlanta Journal-Constitution
• Paywall: The business of scholarship – a review & discussion with Director Jason Schmitt | OIF Blog

First Amendment and Free Speech

• First amendment vitals: Taking Gen Z’s pulse on free expression and inclusion | Knight Foundation

Around the Web

• What Constitutional Rights Do Students Have? | Education Week (Video)
• In 10 years, Little Free Libraries have made a big impact | The Washington Post
• Happy birthday to frequently challenged author Lauren Myracle | OIF Blog
• BlacklistLA: Angelenos, art, and advocacy after hours | OIF Blog
• 10 ways to use technology to promote reading | eSchool News

 International Issues

• Can Singapore’s new law against fake news affect free speech? | Vice
• Inside China’s massive surveillance operation | Wired
• Turin fair kicks out neo-fascist publisher after protests | The New York Times

ALA News

• A conversation with U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor at the 2019 ALA Annual Conference & Exhibition in Washington, DC
• 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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