Intellectual Freedom News 6/14/19
June 14, 2019 – Collated by OIF Staff and News Editors
Highlights
Censorship
- Drag Queen Story Hour | The New Yorker Radio Hour
- Panel defends ‘Drag Queen Story Hour’ during discussion at Spokane library | KREM2.Com
- Belleville Library defends LGBT pride flag, ‘Drag Queen’ event | Patch
- Drag Queen Storytime sparks discussion at Haverford commissioners meeting | Delco Times
- Drag Queen Story Hour organizers, protesters get death threats | KXLY (Washington)
- Ohio House speaker requests ban on drag story time at public libraries, writing it ‘turns teenage boys into drag queens’ | WLWT5
- Denison librarian offers open letter on Householder’s attack on LGBTQ event | Newark Advocate (OH)
- Leander to close library Saturday for ‘Drag Queen Story Hour’ | The Statesman (Texas)
- City officials canceled a children’s story time hosted by drag queen. Then a church saved the day | The Washington Post (Texas)
- Activists want a high school mural removed. Can its modern meaning overshadow the artist’s intentions? | CNN Style
- Advocates throw the book at Danville prison | The News-Gazette (Illinois)
- ACLU: Ga. sheriff revises policy on ban of jail books | CorrectionsOne
Privacy
- Amazon’s helping police build a surveillance network with Ring doorbells | CNet
- We Read 150 Privacy Policies. They Were an Incomprehensible Disaster | The New York Times
- The next big privacy hurdle? Teaching AI to forget | Wired
- Amazon speaks out in favor of U.S. regulating facial-recognition technology | The Seattle Times
- Facebook worries emails could show Zuckerberg knew of questionable privacy practices | The Wall Street Journal
- He Won a Landmark Case for Privacy Rights. He’s Going to Prison Anyway. | The New York Times
Additional privacy news updates are available at the Choose Privacy Everyday blog.
Access
- Virginia Beach students get “immediate access” to library books online | The Virginian-Pilot
Net Neutrality & Broadband Access
- 3 million US students don’t have home internet | AP
- The FCC said repealing net-neutrality rules would help consumers: It hasn’t | Yahoo! Finance
- Here’s why net neutrality still matters one year after repeal | TechDirt
- Net neutrality has been dead for a year: What you need to know | CNet
- Over 100 activists urge McConnell to take up net neutrality bill in the Senate | The Hill
- Mobile technology and home broadband 2019 | Pew Research Center
Fake News, Free Press, Social Media
- Who has your back? Censorship Edition 2019 | EFF (Whitepaper)
- Republicans Blame CDA 230 For Letting Platforms Censor Too Much; Democrats Blame CDA 230 For Platforms Not Censoring Enough | Techdirt
- How Instagram censors could affect the lives of everyday women (Opinion) | USA Today
- The return of fake news – and lessons from spam | Wired
Academic Freedom & Campus Speech
- Free speech on campus is doing just fine, thank you | The Atlantic
- High School students’ graduation speeches keep getting censored. But they’re seen by millions anyway | Time
- Doane University officials criticized for handling of exhibit that included blackface photos | Omaha World-Herald
- Plan for Trump’s free speech order still ‘in process,’ DeVos says | Politico
- Alabama governor signs campus free speech bill into law | The Hill
First Amendment & Free Speech
- Arresting a person for profanity often violates the First Amendment | Freedom Forum Institute
- New Assange charges raise two First Amendment alarms | Freedom Forum Institute
Around the Web
- Sex, drugs, and self-harm: Where 20 years of child online protection law went wrong | The Washington Post
- How to end a book ban, according to the lawyer who got Harry Potter back on school shelves | The Washington Examiner
- Fans are better than tech at organizing information online | Wired
- Maurice Sendak and the librarians: When censorship came from within | OIF Blog
International Issues
- Cubans complain about Internet service, too expensive, too slow and censorship | Merco Press
- Hong Kong was my refuge, now its freedom is at stake | Time
- Beijing broadens censorship of Australian media, adding The Age and News.com.au to its blacklist | ABC (China)
- For remote communities in Scotland’s Outer Hebrides, mobile libraries are a lifeline | NPR
- An online solution for Africa’s access woes? | The Chronicle of Higher Education
- Spanish soccer league’s app caught eavesdropping on users in anti-piracy push | Ars Technica
ALA News
- Celebrate the best in LGBTQIA+ literature at the 2019 Stonewall Book Awards
- 2020 ALA Annual Conference Program Proposals are Now Open
- Thirty-six participants selected for seventh ALA Leadership Institute
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