Intellectual Freedom News 6/1/18
June 1, 2018 – Collated by OIF Staff and News Editors
Censorship
- Parents demand ‘Fun Home’ graphic novel be removed from Watchung Hills curriculum | New Jersey Echoes-Sentinel
- Fun Home under fire in New Jersey | Comic Book League of Defense Fund
- Holy Cross valedictorian denied right to speak at graduation | NBC News
- Instagram’s censorship of #stripper sparks outcry from sex workers and allies | Jezebel
- Prisoner advocates call on Maryland to rescind virtual book ban for inmates | Washington Post
- Why ‘Show Dogs’ scenes were cut after it was in theaters | The Mercury News
Privacy
- The blockchain: What it is and how it can benefit libraries | OIF Blog
- The General Data Protection Regulation: What Does It Mean for Libraries Worldwide? | Association of Research Libraries
- Twitter blocking users who were underage when they signed up | The Guardian
- Apple sees steep increase in U.S. national security requests | Reuters
- Bad news about Pretty Good Privacy | Columbia Journalism Review
- Opinion: Privacy is power | Politico
- Data Subjects of the World, Unite! | The New York Times
- How spies can use your cellphone to find you – and eavesdrop on your calls and texts too | Washington Post
- Vermont passes first law to crack down on data brokers | TechCrunch
See this week’s additional privacy news and updates on the Choose Privacy Week blog.
Net Neutrality and Broadband Access
- Net neutrality represents ongoing debate about affordable broadband in America | OIF Blog
- Trump hits campaign trail to endorse key foe of net neutrality rules | Ars Technica
- Big tech’s fight for net neutrality moves behind the scenes | Wired
- AT&T wants to settle with FTC to avoid unlimited data throttling lawsuit | Ars Technica
- California Senate defies AT&T, votes for strict net neutrality rules | Ars Technica
- Financing broadband access should not entail taxing broadband access | Forbes
Access
- Why do you need a collection development plan? | Knowledge Quest
Free Press, Social Media, and Fake News
- Teens, Social Media & Technology 2018 | Pew Research Center – Internet & Technology
- Lie? Falsehood? What to call the president’s words | Columbia Journalism Review
- Six or seven things social media can do for democracy | Medium
- Facebook, Amazon, and hundreds of companies post targeted job ads that screen out older workers | Vox
- Trump Has Invented His Own Legal Language to Distort the Case Against Him—and It’s Working | Slate
Academic Freedom and Campus Speech
- Undeterred by criticism, Koch Foundation increases spending in higher education | Chronicle of Higher Education
- You can only protect campus speech if you acknowledge racism | Washington Post
- What’s wrong with secret donor agreements like the ones George Mason University inked with the Kochs | The Conversation
- UNL says it’s been unfairly criticized in grad student free speech case | Omaha World-Herald
- How a student got kicked out of class — and became a conservative hero | Chronicle of Higher Education
- The criminalization of knowledge: Why the struggle for academic freedom is the struggle for democracy | Chronicle of Higher Education
First Amendment and Free Speech
- Free speech will not save us | New York Times
- Trump Twitter ruling has implications for all government officials | Columbia Journalism Review
- Knight Institute, ACLU sue for more transparent manuscript review process for government agencies | Publishers Weekly
- Roseanne Barr and the NFL: What Counts as Free Speech? | Rolling Stone
- Roseanne’s firing is not a free-speech issue | National Review
- Conservatives fail the N.F.L.’s free speech test | New York Times
- A professor brought his guns to protect protesters at white-supremacist rallies. Then his troubles started. | Chronicle of Higher Education
- How the resurgence of white supremacy in the US sparked a war over free speech | The Guardian
- The Anti-Semitism Awareness Act doesn’t restrict free speech–it helps prevent bullying | Newsweek
Around the Web
- Federal appeals court upholds Pennsylvania school district’s inclusive transgender locker room policy | Jurist
- FBI tells router users to reboot now to kill malware infecting 500k devices | Ars Technica
- Great American Read’s list of 100 “best-loved” novels includes more than 20 banned authors | OIF Blog
- Asian Americans and libraries: Anthology authors talk about identity, erasure, and inclusion | American Libraries
- Why are middle-aged women invisible on book covers? | The Guardian
International Issues
- The fight to legalise porn in India is a fight for women taking control of their bodies | Quartz
- Russia asks Apple to remove Telegram from the App Store | The Verge
- New US sanctions target Iran for human rights abuses, censorship | The Hill
- Pakistan’s censorship model | Brookings Institute
- Kenya’s new cybercrime law opens the door to privacy violations, censorship | News 24
ALA News
- Free webinar on Integrating STEM and Coding into Makerspaces
- New session: How to Respond to a Security Incident in Your Library
- Libraries celebrate June as GLBT Book Month™
- A new ALA Editions Special Report on fake news and alternative facts
- New session: Creating inclusive storytimes for ALL children
- New iteration—Cutting the Red Tape: Finding and Using E-Government Tools and Resources eCourse
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