Intellectual Freedom News 6/7/19
June 7, 2019 – Collated by OIF Staff and News Editors
Highlights
Censorship
- Leave Drag Queen Story Hour alone! | New York Times
- When the censors go to court | OIF Blog
- Rumford librarians deny that political agendas guide their banned books displays | Sun Journal (ME)
- Drag Queen Story Hour at Rockford library upsets some as city celebrates LGBTQ Pride Month | rrstar.com (IL)
- Alabama Methodist Church to Show ‘Arthur” episode featuring gay wedding banned by state public television | Newsweek
- Fall River library’s first Drag Queen Storytime drew hundreds of supporters |The Herald News (MA)
- Drag Queen Story Time in Fall River goes on despite controversy | 7 News Boston (MA)
- Protesters face off over drag queen reading in Waterville | CM.com (ME)
- Protesters face off at Brooklyn’s Drag Queen Story Hour | Daily Beast
- House Speaker Larry Householder denounces planned ‘drag queen’ events at Ohio libraries | Cleveland.com (OH)
- Ohio House Speaker criticizes Licking County Library’s LGBTQ event; library cancels | WBNS (OH)
- State Lawmaker Blasts Canceled LGBTQ Event at Ohio Public Library | City Beat (OH)
- Householder speaks out on LGTBQ events | Akron Beacon Journal (OH)
- Spokane library to hold drag queen story hour; protest planned | YakTri News (WA)
- Library’s drag show for children criticized | Barre Montpelier Times Argus
- Rogers Free Library reinstates Drag Queen Story Hour event | NBC 10 News (MA)
- Highland Park library’s ‘P Is for Palestine’ controversy ends with closed-door compromise | Jewish News Syndicate
- Benigno: District misleading Jeffco parents about controversial curriculum (opinion) | The Complete Colorado
- ‘It’s Heartbreaking’ authors criticize removal of 200 books from an Illinois prison library | WILL Illinois Public Media
- Kansas prisoners banned from reading ‘A Game of Thrones’ along with thousands of other books | Newsweek
- Topics too dangerous for NH prisons: Attica, tattoos, Ramen noodles | New Hampshire Union Leader
- School district faces grilling for teacher’s trans-activism | WND
Privacy
- Lynda’s privacy problem | OIF Blog
- US now seeking social media details from all visa applicants | Associated Press
- Gov. Mills signs nation’s strictest internet privacy protection bill | Portland Press Herald
- [Maine] Lawmakers Move to Pass Nation’s Strictest Internet Privacy Law | Portland Press Herald
- New York’s Privacy Bill is Even Bolder than California’s | Wired
- How a 2008 Illinois Statute is Shaping US Privacy Law | JD Supra
- Digital Privacy is a Class Issue | The New Republic
- New York’s privacy bill is even bolder than California’s | Wired
- Education dept. finds privacy violation in charter network’s discussion of student | Education Week
Additional privacy news updates are available at the Choose Privacy Everyday blog.
Access
- Impact of mis/disinformation on health care information literacy | OIF Blog
- Indigenous academic library serves as a model for centering First Nations cultures, communities, collections | Library Journal
Net Neutrality and Broadband Access
- Ajit Pai works to cap funding for rural and poor people, gets GOP backing | Ars Technica
- Georgia officials taking steps to expand broadband access | U.S. News and World Report
- Digital gap between rural and nonrural America persists | Pew Research Center
- Why net neutrality advocates remain optimistic | Wired
Fake News, Free Press, Social Media
- Many Americans say made-up news is a critical problem that needs to be fixed | Pew Research Center
- YouTube’s efforts to scrub hate speech spawn vicious reaction online | Wall Street Journal
- Freedom and the media: A downward spiral | Freedom House
- Trump suggests AT&T boycott to force changes in CNN coverage | Politico
- Social media censorship is the product of culture and commerce | National Review
- Facebook to meet #WetheNipple campaigners amid nudity censorship row | CNN
- Anti-censorship activists strip nude outside Facebook HQ to fight nudity ban | Rolling Stone
Academic Freedom & Campus Speech
- How social media imperils scholarship | Chronicle of Higher Education
- Academic freedom: Whose right is it anyway? | The National Law Review
First Amendment and Free Speech
- Judge: White supremacist group’s actions protected by free speech | Christian Science Monitor
- Do we still want free speech? | National Review
- Judge shuts down defense’s First Amendment claim, allows racist Facebook page as evidence in fatal stabbing of Richard Collins III | Atlanta Black Star
Around the Web
- Happy Birthday to the Marquis de Sade! | OIF Blog
- Nobody could beat the ‘Jeopardy!’ champion. Then a university librarian stepped up. | Chronicle of Higher Education
- Why I’m no longer reading books by white men | Book Riot
International Issues
- US companies help censor the internet in China, too | Wired
- Russia and Iran plan to fundamentally isolate the internet | Wired
- European Court Of Justice Suggests Maybe The Entire Internet Should Be Censored And Filtered | TechDirt
- In Cambodia, politics push musician’s into self-censorship | Voice of American
- Facebook on trial for ‘censorship’ in Poland | France 24
- Elton John condemns Russia’s censorship of Rocketman sex scenes | Vulture
- 30 years since Tiananmen Square: The state of Chinese censorship and digital surveillance | Electronic Frontier Foundation
- The EU is pushing the web toward global censorship benefitting the world’s dictators | Forbes
ALA News
- Celebrate the best in LGBTQIA+ literature at the 2019 Stonewall Book Awards
- Thirty-six participants selected for seventh ALA Leadership Institute
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