Intellectual Freedom News 8/3/2018
August 3, 2018 – Collated by OIF Staff and News Editors
Intellectual Freedom Highlights
- Project Report: Library Values & Privacy in our National Digital Strategies: Field guides, Convenings, and Conversations | Center for Information Policy Research, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and Data & Society
Censorship
- Do trigger warnings help or harm? | Psychology Today; “The researchers found that being exposed to trigger warnings caused participants to rate both themselves and others as more vulnerable to developing PTSD. Trigger warnings led to no self-reported differences in anxiety between the two groups overall, but for participants who already held the belief that “words cause harm,” trigger warnings led to an increase in anxiety.”
- Memoirs about censorship | OIF Blog
- The Hate U Give and All American Boys challenged by Charleston County Police | OIF Blog
- N.J. Court Orders Google to Vanish Plaintiff’s Photo | Volokh Conspiracy
Privacy
- In ‘Quiet Skies’ program, TSA is tracking regular travelers like terrorists | Boston Globe
- The scoop on NJIT’s facial recognition security system | NJIT
- Big Brother’s Blind Spot | The Baffler
- Against Black Inclusion in Facial Recognition | Digital Talking Drum
- Can Canadian border agents search your phone or laptop? A new guide explains | CTV
- 23andMe sold access to your DNA library to big pharma, but you can opt out | Motherboard
- Big data is getting bigger. So are the privacy and ethical questions | Chronicle of Higher Education
- Trump administration working on consumer data privacy policy | Reuters
See this week’s additional privacy news and updates on the Choose Privacy Everyday blog.
Net Neutrality and Broadband Access
Internet Filtering and Online Content
- People viewing porn on Puyallup Public Library computers sparks outrage | KOMO News
- Why Are We Still So Worried About Watching Porn? | Slate
- Online Speech Regulation: A Comparative Perspective | Data & Society (Podcast)
Access
- Museum in a box | Smithsonian Libraries Unbound Blog; “MiaB allows students to learn about the collections from the Smithsonian Libraries and Museums, from the comfort of their own classrooms.”
- Public gets digital access to Little Bighorn Battlefield collections | Billings Gazette
- Can you print a gun at your local library? It’s not likely | Hartford Courant
Free Press, Social Media, and Fake News
- “Known but not discussed”: Low-income people aren’t getting quality news and information. What can the industry do about it? | Nieman Labs
- Newsroom employment dropped nearly a quarter in less than 10 years, with greatest decline at newspapers | Pew FactTank
- Leaked white paper proposes Congressional regulation of social media | Columbia Journalism Review
- Nunes suggests possible legal action against Twitter for ‘censoring’ conservatives | The Hill
- Facebook Just Removed a Cluster of 32 “Bad Actor” Fake Accounts and Pages | Slate
- How Fake Influence Campaigns on Facebook Lured Real People | The New York Times
- The future of “fake news” : Pepsi gets Facebook to censor jokes about plastic in its Kurkure corn puffs | Boing Boing
- Fake Facebook accounts are getting harder to trace | Wired
- Online hate is rampant. Here’s how to keep it from spreading | Wired
- How History Classes Helped Create a ‘Post-Truth’ America | The Atlantic
Academic Freedom & Campus Speech
- Not merely free speech, but better speech needs to be protected on campus | The Globe and Mail
First Amendment and Free Speech
- Metro can ban all religious ads on buses and trains, court rules | The Washington Post
- The Right to Speak | NPR; Podcast with segments on: Why should we listen to views we find offensive?, Should A Culture Dedicated To Free Speech Limit Hate Speech?, What Happens When Different Viewpoints Are Silenced?, Who Benefits From Unrestricted Free Speech?
- The Sex-Trafficking Case Testing the Limits of the First Amendment | Politico
- The fight over 3-D printed guns | The New York Times
- Liberals, don’t lose faith in the first amendment | The New York Times
- The First Amendment was meant for times like now | Freedom Forum Institute
Around the Web
- Jeff Sessions announces creation of “religious liberty” task force | CBS News
- Jeff Sessions Announces Religious Liberty Task Force at DOJ in Response to “Dangerous Movement” | Slate
- Meet the YouTube starts turning viewers into readers | The New York Times
- Responsible freedoms | Inside Higher Ed
- Unpublished chapter of Malcolm X’s autobiography acquired by New York library | CNN
- Congress has a $95 million proposal to study tech’s effects on kids | Wired
- Historians just don’t get archivists. Here’s why | The Chronicle of Higher Education
- Where artists are desecrators: A review of Patrica Forde’s “The List” | OIF Blog
International Issues
- Cologne archaeologists unearth oldest library in Germany | The Art Newspaper
- Google is reportedly planning a censorship-friendly search service for China | TechCrunch
- CPJ condemns pre-election news censorship in Cambodia | Committee to Protect Journalists
- Malaysian cartoonist Zunar finally free from sedition charges | CBLDF
ALA News
- #BannedBooksWeek is September 23-29, 2018. Stock up on free downloads and social media art!
- Suggested Language & Resources for “Meeting Rooms: An Interpretation of the Library Bill of Rights” – The Intellectual Freedom Committee formed a working group to revise the meeting rooms interpretation. Library community members — ALA members & non-members alike — are invited to suggest language & resources for the interpretation by 8/24, using this form
- ACRL releases 2017 Academic Library Trends and Statistics
- ALA report shares findings, illustrates successes from 10 years of the American Dream Literacy Initiative
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