Intellectual Freedom News 7/13/18
July 13, 2018 – Collated by OIF Staff and News Editors
Intellectual Freedom Highlights
- ALA OIF Responds to Library Bill of Rights Meeting Room Interpretation update | ALA press release
- Read the document: Meeting Rooms: An Interpretation of the Library Bill of Rights
- Library meeting rooms for all | OIF Blog; statement and resources from OIF Director Jamie LaRue
- Policy allowing hate groups to meet at libraries comes under fire | Los Angeles Times
- Free speech debate erupts with ALA’s inclusion of hate groups in revision of Bill of Rights Interpretation | School Library Journal
- Yes, “hate groups” can hold meetings in libraries, too | Reason
- Libraries can’t afford to welcome hate | SocialistWorker.org
Censorship
- SC Police Union Challenges Summer Reading List with “The Hate U Give” and “All American Boys” | School Library Journal
- Why the Game Of Thrones books are banned from some prisons | Cinema Blend
- KU flag removal ‘smacks of censorship’: ACLU, free speech advocates defend art piece | Kansas City
Privacy
- Privacy v. personalized services in libraries | OIF Blog
- This Russian Company Knows What You Like on Facebook | The New York Times
- Facebook Is Still Abusing Your Privacy | The New Republic
- Why protecting privacy is a losing game today—and how to change the game | Brookings Institute
- How Europe’s ‘right to be forgotten’ could protect kids’ online privacy in the U.S. | Washington Post
- How ‘parental permission’ could destroy transgender kids’ privacy | The Daily Beast
- Having more control over your data doesn’t mean it’s safe | CNN
- House Members Spar Over Data Privacy Bills; Path Forward Remains Murky | Meritalk
- Top House Republicans Question Apple, Alphabet on Privacy | Bloomberg
- SCOTUS and Congress Leave the Right to Privacy Up for Grabs | Wired
- Trump Supreme Court pick Kavanaugh has privacy track record | Bloomberg
See last week’s additional privacy news and updates on the Choose Privacy Everyday blog.
Net Neutrality and Broadband Access
Access
- Meet the Harris County public defender who’s crowdfunding books for her clients | Houston Chronicle
- DOD seeks classification “Clippy” to help classify data, control access | Ars Technica
- Linguistic diversity in libraries | Library Journal
- Bringing diverse literature to students through the Inspire Special Event Grant | Knowledge Quest
- Cleveland students lead initiative to diversify school libraries | School Library Journal
- It just got easier for the FCC to ignore your complaints | Wired
Hate Speech / Copyright
Free Press, Social Media, and Fake News
- Facebook opens its private servers to scientists studying fake news | Wired
- Ajit Pai finally gets around to fighting fraud in FCC comment system | Ars Technica
- What it means that Facebook misread the Declaration of Independence | Chicago Tribune; “The social network’s algorithm apparently thinks the Declaration of Independence is hate speech.”
Academic Freedom & Campus Speech
- Guns chill free speech, UT-Austin professors will argue at federal appeals court | The Texas Tribune
- Court Rules Marquette University Violated Conservative Professor’s Academic Freedom | National Catholic Register
- A Dangerous precedent: Court’s ruling at Marquette | Chronicle for Higher Education
- Report on censorship of art on campus | Insider Higher Education
- George Mason’s foundation does not need to release records of Koch foundation agreements, judge finds | Chronicle for Higher Education
- Navigating free speech on campus: A matter of clarity and consistency | Freedom Forum Institute
First Amendment and Free Speech
- Does it really matter that Americans don’t know what the First Amendment says? | Freedom Forum Institute
- Kavanaugh has supported public school prayers, religious school vouchers | Education Week
Around the Web
- Should Politics be Civil? | JSTOR Today
- Neo-Nazi books found in Omaha neighborhood libraries | Hastings Tribune (NE)
- Star Litigators Notch First Win in Suit Against Charlottesville Neo-Nazis | Law.com
- Protecting Library Workers’ Discourse around Social Justice, ALA Annual 2018 | Library Journal
- “Spring Awakening,” “Rise” and what’s “appropriate”: A conversation with my daughter | OIF Blog
- Three poisonous books were found in University of Southern Denmark’s library | Washington Post
- Mother warns other parents after son received inappropriate book from local library | KFOX 14 (TX)
- Nazi children’s books, KKK onesies are for sale on Amazon | The Daily Beast
- When Neo-Nazis Love Your Book | Chronicle for Higher Education
- YA Lit and teen activism | Knowledge Quest
International Issues
- Human Rights Watch calls on Hong Kong government to put LGBT-themed children’s books back on open shelves at public libraries | South China Morning Post
- How Is Internet Censorship Affecting Chinese Culture? | Forbes
- Dutch children’s book pulled over discriminatory text | NL Times (Netherlands)
- It’s 50 years since the end of stage censorship in Britain – but how free are artists really? | Independent
- Europe is using smartphone data as a weapon to deport refugees | Wired
- OSCE issues rebuke to Ukraine over draft internet censorship law | Kyiv Post
ALA News
- Nominations invited for annual Downs Intellectual Freedom Award | iSchool, University of Illinois
- Library Card Sign-up Month artwork starring the Incredibles now available | ALA News
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