May 25, 2018 – Collated by OIF Staff and News Editors

Censorship

• Book about transgender girl breaks ground – and stirs controversy – in Oregon schools | OPB, ‘George’
  • Alex Gino’s George and the Oregon Battle of the Books | IF Blog
• Banning books in Warren? Parents questions English curriculum at Watchung Hills | Tap into Warren (NJ); ‘Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic’
• MPS teachers object to status change for book | Midland Daily News, ‘Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian’
• Prosper High School journalists allege newspaper censorship by principal, fight editorial policy | Dallas News (TX)
  • Texas principal censors paper, bans all editorials and ousts award-winning adviser | Student Press Law Center

Privacy

• Library’s $3.4M radio frequency technology proposal meets with opposition | San Francisco Examiner
• Why is Everyone Updating Their Terms of Use and Privacy Policies? | San Jose Public Library
• The General Data Protection Regulation Explained | Educause
• Sites block users, shut down activities and flood inboxes as GDPR rules loom | The Guardian
• Senators Push Companies to Adopt EU Data Protections Here | Broadcasting and Cable
• Police use of Amazon’s face-recognition service draws privacy warnings | Ars Technica
  • Few rules govern police use of facial recognition technology | Wired
• New York high school will use CCTV and facial recognition to enforce discipline | BoingBoing
• States stumble on internet privacy | Pew Stateline
• Amazon confirms that Echo device secretly shared user’s private audio | Ars Technica

See this week’s additional privacy news and updates on the Choose Privacy Week blog.

Net Neutrality and Broadband Access

• Two senators say their identities were stolen in fake net neutrality comments to the FCC | The Washington Post
• Net neutrality is just a gateway to the real issue: Internet freedom | Wired
• FCC is hurting consumers to help corporations, Mignon Clyburn says on exit | Ars Technica

Access

• Government sea level rise report released after charges of censorship | Scientific American
• Internet Archive awarded grant from Arcadia Fund to digitize university press collections | Internet Archive Blogs
• #KidsNeedBooks Twitter campaign helping students and schools in need | School Library Journal
• Flossmoor Public Library Struggles with “Rowdy” Tweens and Teens; Relaxes ID Policy | School Library Journal

Free Press, Social Media, and Fake News

• ’60 Minutes’ correspondent: Trump said he attacks the press so no one believes negative coverage | The Hill
• Shining a light on ads with political content | Facebook Newsroom

Academic Freedom and Campus Speech

• Conservatives quietly fight each other over campus free speech | Washington Examiner
• You can’t legislate free inquiry on campus | The New York Times
• Speech codes are the problem on campuses, not ‘a right-wing assault’ | The Federalist
• Charles Koch and ideological diversity on campus | The Washington Post

First Amendment and Free Speech

• Trump’s Blocking of Twitter Users Is Unconstitutional, Judge Says | The New York Times
  • Trump can’t block Twitter critics: What’s that mean for you? | Wired
  • Opinion: Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University v. Donald J. Trump
• In Aurora, a library display and City Council remark put spotlight on freedom of speech | Chicago Tribune
• What We Talk About When We Talk About Free Speech | Pacific Standard
• Conservatives fail the N.F.L.’s free speech test | The New York Times
• Justice Stephen Breyer’s memorable First Amendment passages | Freedom Forum Institute (Newseum)
• These two states are pushing laws to criminalize some protests | Freedom Forum Institute (LA & MN)

Around the Web

• U.S. court backs transgender student at center of bathroom dispute | Reuters
• ‘Stop this BLATANT CENSORSHIP’: The poor, confused souls sending their YouTube complaints to the FCC | Gizmodo
• Teacher’s dilemma: Should author’s bad behavior ban the book? | The Day
• ‘Fahrenheit 451’ to ‘A Wrinkle in Time’: 13 banned books adapted for the screen | The Hollywood Reporter
• A bad basketball dad and libraries: A metaphor | IF Blog
• Ode to librarians | IF Blog

International Issues

• Rice Bunny: Censorship and #MeToo in China | WBUR
• In Taiwan, debate over history and censorship as WWII drama is canceled | NPR
• Vietnamese dissident questioned over banned books | Radio Free Asia
• A school in China is monitoring students with facial-recognition technology that scans the classroom every 30 seconds | Business Insider
• Iran tightens internet censorship by requiring government agencies to use state-approved search engines | Center for Human Rights in Iran
• Turkey’s government takes new powers to censor the internet | The Economist

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