Intellectual Freedom News 7/28/16
Intellectual Freedom News
July 28, 2016
Office for Intellectual Freedom
- Save the Date: Banned Books Week is September 25th through October 1st, 2016.
- Free Webinar: Fifty Shades of Banned Books Week – Tired of the same old displays and yellow caution tape? Want to engage your community with thoughtful programming and information about the freedom to read? Join ALA’s Office for Intellectual Freedom during this FREE WEBINAR, August 10th, to discover 50 ideas, tips, and resources to have a successful Banned Books Week.
- Banned Books Week Posters, Buttons, Mugs and More! @ the ALA Store
- Journal of Intellectual Freedom and Privacy – First issue available to read online for FREE
- New Privacy Guidelines
Censorship
- VA; Eleanor and Park, Tyrell, Dopesick; Sen. Amanda Chase: Label books with explicit language (7/20); Sen. Chase: Librarians should be ‘dismissed’ (6/28); Parents call out summer reading lists: ‘vile, nasty’ (6/21) | Chesterfield Observer
- NJ; A People’s History of the United States; Resident takes issue with book used in Chatham High School classrooms | Chatham Courier
- NY; Stand Loud, Stand Tall; NYC Reverses Decision to Censor Artist’s “Problematic” Public Sculpture | Art Forum
- VT and TX; Authors, Kate Messner and Phil Bildner; Authors Respond to Disinvites from Schools | Publisher’s Weekly
- Toronto, Canada; Here are the books and movies people tried to get removed from Toronto’s public libraries last year | Toronto Life
- IA; Fired Iowa farm cartoonist draws again | KCCI Des Moines
- CO; UNC admits it could ‘revisit’ Bias Response Team after national criticism | Campus Reform
- PA; The Glass Castle; After Parents Censor, Student Drafts Petition In Defense of ‘Glass Castle’ | NCAC
- Ontario, Canada; Senior’s Alert Newsletter; ‘I was defending God’: Senior censored by public library wins right to display newsletter | National Post
Legislation & Filtering
- Net Neutrality Rules Upheld: Go Team Internet!| Electronic Frontier Foundation
- ALA applauds decision upholding net neutrality protections | ALA Washington Office
- Net Neutrality Is Government Censorship | Mercatus Center
Privacy
- Cory Doctorow: Peak Indifference | Locus
- Microsoft email warrant decision is a win for privacy, or is it? | IAPP Daily Dashboard
- Malicious computers caught snooping on Tor-anonymized Dark Web sites | Ars Technica
- Connected Toys Are Raising Complicated New Privacy Questions | MIT Tech Review
- Beyond the Crypto Wars: Outcomes from Crypto Summit 2.0 | Access Now
- On Libraries: Stand Up for Privacy | Hilda Weisburg
- Protecting Patron Privacy | Library Journal
- The Moral Economy of Tech | SASE Conference talk in Berkeley, CA
- Judge: Warrant in child porn case was unnecessary | Daily Press
- DC Public Library’s librarians are lowkey internet privacy activists |Technically DC
Around the Web
- Scales on Censorship; When a Volunteer Oversteps | School Library Journal
- Loud in the Library: Creating Social Activists at School | The Horn Book
- The Not-So-Subtle Censorship Affecting Our Schoolchildren | The Establishment
- General Assembly approves book-banning Franklin Graham employee for State Board of Ed | NC Policy Watch
- Set It and Forget It: How Default Settings Rule the World| Pro Publica
- Free Speech, Libel Tourism and the Little Sabra Who Could | Moment
- Twitter Permanently Suspends Conservative Writer Milo Yiannopoulos | BuzzFeed News
ALA News
Updates from ALA Annual Conference in Orlando
- Jazz Jennings Speaks to Self-Acceptance and Survival | American Libraries
- Margaret Atwood on Shakespeare and Technology | American Libraries
- Council I Passes Two Resolutions, Discusses Libraries Transform | American Libraries
- Council II Marks ALA’s 140th Anniversary | American Libraries
- Council III Addresses Equity for School Libraries | American Libraries
- Privacy and School Data | American Libraries
- ALA in Orlando: Conference Kaleidoscope | Knowledge Quest
- Dewey Decibel Podcast: Annual Recap | American Libraries
- Annual Returns to Orlando | American Libraries
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