Intellectual Freedom News 6/29/18
June 29, 2018 – Collated by OIF Staff and News Editors
Intellectual Freedom Highlights
- A Historic Victory for Privacy | Slate
In a landmark 5–4 decision, the Supreme Court rules that the Fourth Amendment protects cell phone location records. - Prestigious Laura Ingalls Wilder Award renamed over racial insensitivity | New York Times
- ALA, ALSC respond to Wilder Medal name change | ALA Press Release
- Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Name Scratched From Children’s Literature Award for Racial Insensitivity | National Review
- American librarians defend renaming Laura Ingalls Wilder award | The Guardian
- Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Little House books are beautiful. They are also filled with racism. | Vox
- Little House on the Orwellian Prairie: PC brigade throws Laura Ingalls Wilder under the bus | RT
- Readers split over decision to remove Laura Ingalls Wilder’s name from lit award | Leader-Telegram (WI)
- LIWLRA response to the renaming of the ALA Laura Ingalls Wilder award | Beyond Little House
- Transgender students: Ohio bill would require teachers to report children who may be transgender to parents | Cincinnati Enquirer
Censorship
- Sparkles and smiles, not protests, greet special visitor to Olean Public Library | WKBW (NY)
- Olean school official’s drag show comments lead to intense board meeting | Olean Times Herald
- ‘Drag Queen Storytime’ to go off as planned amid public backlash | Channel 3000 (WI)
- Controversy over Ames Public Library K-12 drag camp | WeAreIowa.com
- When a protester interrupts Drag Queen Storytime | OIF Blog
- My Prison Confiscated a ‘Game of Thrones’ Book Because Maps | Vice
- EFF Launches Lawsuit To Stop FOSTA/SESTA | TechCrunch
Privacy
- California approves privacy rules opposed by ISPs and tech companies | Ars Technica
- Supreme Court restricts police on cellphone location data | Reuters
- ‘Deceived by Design:’ Google and Facebook Accused of Manipulating Users Into Giving Up Their Data | Fortune
- Thermostats, locks and lights: Digital tools of domestic abuse | New York Times
- Mozilla’s new Firefox service can tell users if they’re a victim of a data breach | TechRepublic
- Facial recognition software is not ready for use by law enforcement | TechCrunch
- With GDPR in Place, US Higher Education Institutions Face Their Own Challenges | Corporate Counsel
See this week’s additional privacy news and updates on the Choose Privacy Everyday blog.
Net Neutrality and Broadband Access
- Bill to save net neutrality is 46 votes short in US House | Ars Technica
- California net neutrality bill gutted as lawmakers cave to AT&T lobbyists | Ars Technica
Internet Filtering and Online Content
- Security Cited as the Top Reason Why Organizations Use Web Filtering at the Workplace, Survey Finds | Security Boulevard
- Mom says man was watching porn on computer in public library | Fox 11 (CA)
Access
- Intellectual freedom: A pathway to more diversity! | OIF Blog
- Appeals court follows bench ruling with opinion backing pro-transgender policy | Education Week
- The challenges of curriculum materials as a reform lever | Brookings
- ICE Patrol: Wikileaks publishes database of ICE employees despite attempts to ‘censor’ list | Newsweek
- Powered by partnerships: Winning formulas for school-public library collaborations | School Library Journal
Copyright
- Everyone is panicking about a ‘dreadful’ new law that might kill off the meme and change the internet forever | Business Insider
Free Press, Social Media, and Fake News
- Most Americans Think Facebook and Twitter Censor Their Political Views | Bloomberg
- The faith filter: How conservatives parse the news | Columbia Journalism Review
- USA Today Network launches a conservative opinion newsletter for the heartland | Poynter.com
- We hate ‘false news’ even more than we hate ‘hate’ on social media| Freedom Forum Institute
- Are Trump’s belligerent tweets against critics also an attempt at censorship? | Huffington Post
Academic Freedom & Campus Speech
- A more nuanced view of law on campus speech | Inside Higher Education
- How social media trolls turned U.C. Berkeley into a free-speech circus | New Yorker
- White-supremacist propaganda on campuses rose 77% last year | Chronicle for Higher Education
- Campus lawyers’ deepest fear: the protest or tweet that spins into a free-speech crisis | Chronicle for Higher Education
- A conference’s recipe for ‘viewpoint diversity’: More free play, more John Stuart Mill | Chronicle for Higher Education
- In upholding Trump’s travel ban, Supreme Court ratifies worldview that worries colleges | Chronicle for Higher Education
First Amendment and Free Speech
- The ACLU retreats from free expression | Wall Street Journal
- Has the First Amendment been “weaponized”? | National Constitutional Center
- Wedding cake warning: policies & decisions must be content neutral | OIF Blog
- Group files IG complaint against Navy over Bible included in Okinawa POW/MIA display | Stars & Stripes
- Letter: Promotions of a singular expression of faith are political tools | Journal Standard
- At the Supreme Court, a day of infamy for religious freedom | Freedom Forum Institute
- Court majority wisely rejects expansive application of professional speech doctrine | Freedom Forum Institute
- Golden nuggets for free-expression advocates in an unusual case | Freedom Forum Institute
- Court Strikes Fair Share | Constitutional Law Prof Blog
Around the Web
- A portrait of civics education in the United States: The 2018 Brown Center Report | Brookings Institution
- Gene Luen Yang joins the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund Board of Directors | Bleeding Cool
- Intellectual freedom in situational contexts | OIF Blog
- The miraculous existence of libraries | OIF Blog
- ‘Fahrenheit 451’: A classic dystopian tale throws sparks — but fails to rekindle — on HBO | OIF Blog
- A push to fight discrimination through living libraries | Learning English
- When all your basic needs are covered, you can fight for ‘freedom’ | Sydney Morning Herald
- T-Mobile’s ‘Family Mode’ will kill your child’s internet buzz | PC Mag
- 15 amazing banned books you should read immediately | Buzzfeed
- The Life of Atticus Finch | The New York Times
- Why (your) protest matters: Film contest semi-finalists | NCAC
International Issues
- Children’s books with LGBTQ themes disappear from shelves at Hong Kong libraries amid pressure from anti-gay group | Hong Kong Free Press
- Hong Kong equality watchdog questions removal of LGBTQ-themed library books as backlash grows | Hong Kong Free Press
- As anti-gay sentiment in Hong Kong grows, LGBTQ children’s books are disappearing from shelves | Vox
- Homophobic censorship of children’s books in Hong Kong libraries a big leap backwards | South China Morning Post
- Library user files legal challenge against Hong Kong libraries’ decision to remove LGBT-themed children’s books | Hong Kong Free Press
- As Turkey went to the polls, a global network was mapping online censorship in real-time | Wired
- Trump team wants to censor torture report into the war on terror | Newsweek
- Venezuela ramps up censorship with Tor ban | ZD Net
- Pakistan’s Media Face Censorship And Crackdown | Gandhara
- Turkey: Release of academic must be followed by freedom for others unjustly imprisoned | Amnesty International
- Poland strips back controversial Holocaust law | DW
- China censors HBO after comedian John Oliver criticises Xi Jinping’s censorship | Business Day
- Protesting Polish students stall controversial bill that would clamp down on academic freedom | Global Voices
- China will partly lift internet censorship for one of its provinces to promote tourism | The Verge
ALA News
- Ideas for the college library: Banned Books Week 2018 | OIF Blog
- Freedom to Read Foundation announces 2018 Roll of Honor Awards
- Freedom to Read Foundation announces elected officers to the executive committee of the board of trustees
- More than a week – ‘Choose Privacy’ is now an everyday choice
- American Library Association outraged by the refugee family separation policy
- Nominations invited for annual Downs Intellectual Freedom Award | iSchool, University of Illinois
- New session: How to Fix the 25 Most Common Library Website Problems Workshop
- Schools and Libraries Speak Out for Banned Books with Krug Fund Grants
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