Intellectual Freedom News 7/6/2018
July 6, 2018 – Collated by OIF Staff and News Editors
Intellectual Freedom Highlights
- Celebrate Freedom! Inspiration from OIF
- Laura Ingalls Wilder Award – when is it censorship? | Blog post by OIF Director James LaRue
- New intellectual freedom resources for libraries on social media and controversial programs | ALA News
- 2018 State of the First Amendment survey reveals Americans consider fake news more objectionable than hate speech on social media | Newseum
Censorship
- Charleston-area policy protest ‘The Hate U Give’ school assignment | The Post and Courier (SC)
- A high school put books about police violence on a summer reading list. A police union wants them removed | Vox (SC); “A South Carolina police union president said suggesting students read The Hate U Give and All American Boys is “almost an indoctrination.”
- South Carolina policy object to high-school reading list | The Guardian
- Someone is hiding R-rated ‘Fifty Shades’ movies at Berkley Library | Detroit Free Press (MI)
- Tucson skirts international law in refusing to reinstate Mexican American studies | Truthout
Privacy
- NSA Purges Hundreds of Millions of Call and Text Records | New York Times
- The NSA and the USA Freedom Act | Lawfare
- NSA dumps mil+ phone records from telecom companies | WLTZ First News; “NSA is deleting hundreds of millions of phone records after learning it isn’t authorized to have some of them.”
- Tech mobilizes against California privacy law | The Hill
- Facebook gives US lawmakers the names of 52 firms it gave deep data access to | TechCrunch
- How Smart TVs in Millions of U.S. Homes Track More Than What’s On Tonight | New York Times
- The ACLU’s biggest roadblock to fighting mass surveillance | Wired
See this week’s additional privacy news and updates on the Choose Privacy Everyday blog.
Net Neutrality and Broadband Access
- Net neutrality makes comeback in California; lawmakers agree to strict rules | Ars Technica
- Veterans are calling for restoration of net neutrality this Fourth of July | Techaeris
- Net neutrality’s sunset prompts Sling TV’s individual channel offerings | Forbes
- Mississippi has significant stake in outcome of net neutrality war | Clarion Ledger
Access
- No card, no waits at state’s growing e-book library | Star Tribune (Minnesota)
- Partnership with library allows for greater access to state parks | The Daily Tribune News (GA)
Copyright
- European lawmakers delay controversial copyright law over concerns it could censor memes, articles (CNBC)
Free Press, Social Media, and Fake News
- Hard news. Angry administration. Teenage journalists know what it’s like | The New York Times
- How Facebook Checks Facts and Polices Hate Speech | Wired
- NJ governor to sign bill dedicating $5M to help local media | The Hill
Academic Freedom & Campus Speech
- A professor called out a student by name on his blog. Should that cost him is job? | The Chronicle of Higher Education
- White-Supremacist Propaganda on Campuses Rose 77% Last Year | The Chronicle of Higher Education
First Amendment and Free Speech
- How conservatives weaponized the First Amendment | The New York Times
- Can Free Speech Be Progressive? | Columbia Law Review (Forthcoming)
- Anthony Kennedy and free speech | SCOTUSBlog
- Supreme Court Reporter: ‘The Politics Of The First Amendment Have Completely Flipped’ | NPR Fresh Air
- EFF sues to kill FOSTA, calling it ‘unconstitutional Internet censorship’ | Ars Technica
Around the Web
- A race against time to preserve university media collections | Inside Higher Ed
- Reading is fundamental. But it’s not a fundamental right, court rules | Education Week
- Three Queens: Perspectives on Drag Queen Story Hour | OIF Blog
- How libraries can help migrant children: A book list | OIF Blog
- “I was devastated”: Tim Berners-Lee, the man who created the world wide web, has some regrets | Vanity Fair
- Scholarly publishing is broken. Here’s how to fix it | Aeon
International Issues
- The great firewall of China: Xi Jinping’s internet shutdown | The Guardian
- China’s biggest cellphone company censors content – even in the United States | The Washington Post
- What ‘closed stacks’ for LGBT books at Hong Kong public libraries reveal about the city’s government | South China Morning Post
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
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