Intellectual Freedom News 5/3/2019
May 3, 2019 – Collated by OIF Staff and News Editors
Highlights
- Freedom to Read Foundation announces 2019 Roll of Honor Awards
- Libraries Close the Gap on Unequal Privacy During Choose Privacy Week 2019: Celebrate #ChoosePrivacy Week May 1 – May 7, 2019.
- Freedom to Read Foundation Announces Intellectual Freedom Course and Scholarship Opportunities
Censorship
- Library board votes to keep gay-friendly book on shelf | Daily Inter Lake
- Ann Arbor publisher pulls book for generalizations about Muslims | MLive (MI)
- New Jersey schools change policy that kept Alison Bechdel’s ‘Fun Home’ in libraries | Bleeding Cool
- Banning the birds and the bees: Challenges to children’s books about sexuality | OIF Blog
Privacy
- The Devastating Consequences of Being Poor in the Digital Age | The New York Times
- Data privacy isn’t just about keeping your personal details safe – it’s also about economic justice | Alton Telegraph
- White House has signaled it may seek permanent renewal of controversial surveillance power | The Washington Post
- Border officials have ‘near-unfettered’ access to electronic devices, ACLU says | The Verge
- U.S. lawmakers struggle to draft online privacy bill | Reuters
- R-7 parents can now monitor Chromebooks outside school hours | Kansas City Star
- School Surveillance Videos are Not Educational Records under FERPA | J.D. Supra
- K-12 leaders unite for ‘Check the Privacy,’ a one-stop shop for safe classroom tech | EdSurge
- Facebook set to create privacy positions as part of F.T.C. settlement | The New York TImes
- Here’s how Mark Zuckerberg sees Facebook’s new era of privacy | Wired
- We All Work For Facebook | Longreads
Access
- HHS Office for Civil Rights overhauled its mission and vision statements on its website | The Sunlight Foundation
- Library of Congress puts children’s classics online | School Library Journal
- Blockbuster comics collection comes to UofSC | U of South Carolina News
Net Neutrality and Broadband Access
Fake News, Free Press, Social Media
- Facebook bans Alex Jones, other extremist figures | The New York Times
Academic Freedom & Campus Speech
- Camille Paglia can’t say that | The Atlantic
- Judge declines to block pro-Palestinian panel at UMass | WRAL.com
First Amendment and Free Speech
- Speech Rights for Trump, but Not DeRay Mckesson | The Atlantic
- In Case Brought by School Speech Pathologist, Texas Federal Court Becomes the Third to Strike Down Pro-Israel Oath as Unconstitutional | The Intercept
- First Amendment protects nondisruptive student speech calling for principal to be fired | Reason.com
- High school paper publishes article on student in porn industry after censorship | EdWeek Blog
Around the Web
- She pulled her debut book when critics found it rascist. Now she plans to publish. | The New York Times
- Public library director receives state award | Leaf Chronicle (TN)
- White nationalists interrupt author at Politics and Prose | The Washington Post
- Censorship can’t be the only answer to disinformation online | EFF
- ’13 Reasons Why’ influenced the suicide rate? It’s not that simple | Los Angeles Times
- Burgess: Conversation with a challenged author | Nuvo
- Book selection is not a politician’s job | OIF Blog
- Why I love banned books | OIF BLog
- Beyond Politics and Prose: White nationalists target bookstores, libraries in protests nationwide | The Washington Post
International Issues
- Putin signs ‘Russian Internet Law’ to disconnect Russia from the World Wide Web | Forbes
- Northern Ireland prison bans book about Irish republicans | The Guardian
- How the U.K. won’t keep porn away from teens | The New York Times
- In some countries, many use the internet without realizing it | Pew Research FactTank
ALA News
- 2019 ALA Virtual Membership Meeting; May 9th @ 1:30 CST
- New session: Offering Service and Support to the LGBTQIA Community and Allies Workshop
- Conversing with the Ethnic Affiliates of the American Library Association Webinar
- U.S. Department of Education Seeks Comments on IPEDS Changes by May 20
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