Intellectual Freedom News 8/11/17
August 11, 2017 – Collated by OIF Staff and News Interns
Censorship
- The banned books Michigan prisoners aren’t allowed to read| Signature
- Why are so many Americans okay with corporations bowing to Chinese censorship?| The Week
- Dem lawmaker’s student painting of Statue of Liberty in hijab draws protests | The Hill
- The Trump administration’s solution to climate change: ban the term | The Guardian
- Trump’s climate change censorship puts us all at risk | The Hill
- Is this the revival of the blacklist in Nassau? | Newsday
Privacy
- These 42 Disney apps are allegedly spying on your kids | Washington Post
- The attack on global privacy leaves few places to turn | Wired
- A peek at the FTC’s new privacy enforcement priorities | Lexology
- New Rule Exempts FBI From Disclosing Its Biometric Database To Americans | International Business Times
- Airlines are giving your face to Homeland Security | Daily Beast
- EU-U.S. Privacy Shield – Its Origins and the High Bar It Must Meet | Lexology
- Protect the white hat hackers who are just doing their jobs| Wired
- The Man Who Wrote Those Password Rules Has a New Tip: N3v$r M1^d! | Wall Street Journal
- How captive portals interfere with wireless security and privacy | Electronic Frontier Foundation
- ACLU: Absent warrant standard, police could monitor anyone via location data | Ars Technica
- Tom Price says changing privacy laws could improve addiction treatment | Fierce Healthcare
See this week’s privacy updates on the Choose Privacy Week blog.
Right to Delete/Right to be Forgotten
- You could finally control your Facebook data if UK law is passed | New Scientist
- Personal data is the fuel of the digital economy. It is right that consumers should control it.| The Telegraph (UK)
- The right to be forgotten is the right to have an imperfect past | The Guardian
Access
- Drag queen reports online threats for wanting to read books to Charlotte children | Charlotte Observer
- OverDrive’s Libby App to Include Remote Library Card Signup | Library Journal
- Affirmative action: Why now and what’s next?|Chronicle for Higher Education
- Will Arizona sabotoge education in order to oppress Chicanos? | Huffington Post; “Any day a judge in Arizona will rule on the Mexican American Studies (MAS) ban. Everyone’s intellectual freedom is on the line.”
- New venture will offer free courses that students can take for college credit | Chronicle for Higher Education
- Now is the time to think about accessibility | Chronicle Vitae
- Who’s taking college spots from top Asian Americans? Privileged whites|ProPublica
- What’s this library book doing in my National Park?| KALW Local Public Radio (CA)
Net Neutrality
- E&C Democrats Submit Comments on Net Neutrality Plan: Proposal Fundamentally & Profoundly Runs Counter to the Law | Committee on Energy and Commerce Democrats
- Next steps on net neutrality | American Libraries
- FCC seemingly forgot about a net neutrality complaint filed against Verizon | Ars Technica
Internet Filters
- Library continues process of filtering internet content | Watertown Public Opinion (SD)
Academic Freedom/ Campus Speech
- Adjuncts under fire? | Inside Higher Ed; “Fresno State announces that instructor who tweeted “Trump must hang” won’t be returning to campus. He is among several non-tenure-track faculty members to lose their jobs over social media posts.”
- More Diversity Means More Demands | NY Times; “Students are protesting for official recognition of their identities, whether racial, ethnic, sexual, religious, first-generation, low-income or immigrant.”
- Teaching the art of the difficult classroom conversation | Chronicle for Higher Education
- Beall: ‘social justice warrior’ librarians ‘betraying’ academy | Times Higher Education
First Amendment Issues
- Protecting the media to protect America | Virginia Pilot
“Leaking is a crime, and a serious one. Yet, it must be balanced against the public’s right to know what its government is doing, particularly when those actions run afoul of the Constitution.”- No Free Speech for You| Slate
- Fear itself | Intellectual Freedom Blog; “But the facts on the ground show clearly that journalists and the free press in America are under attack by the president of the United States, non-state actors, and in all likely-hood, foreign powers. […] So I, along with many other people from varied backgrounds and walks of life, are stepping up to literally defend the role of journalists and the free press in American society.”
- Michelle Carter suicide case underlines growing legal battles over speech crimes | The Federalist
- Why social media is not a public forum | Washington Post
- Free Speech And Trump Tweets: When Twitter Is A Limited Public Forum | Litigation & Trial
- Milo Yiannopoulos, ACLU Team up to Sue DC Metro | Legal Times
- Maine allowed to enforce law against protests loud enough to be heard inside a building |Portland Press Herald
- That Google manifesto really put executives in a bind | Wired
- Alt-right plans ‘free speech’ march against Google | The Hill
- The Google Glitch: Free Speech, Stereotypes, and Sacred Myths | Huffington Post
- ‘We Support Free Speech, But . . .’ | National Review; “The censors start by praising free and open discussion, then clarify that they do not support free and open discussion.”
- The Left’s supporting role in American hate theater | New Republic
- Eighth Circuit rejects temporary injunction against state robocall statute | Constitutional Law Prof Blog
- A new boycott battle | Inside Higher Ed; “Civil rights groups argue “anti-Israel boycott” bill would violate First Amendment rights, while supporters say the bill is narrowly tailored and represents a minor amendment to current law.”
Around the Web
- Carla Hayden: By the book | NY Times
- The pervasiveness of profanity | Pacific Standard Magazine; “New research tracks the rise in swear words in books over the decades.”
- Exploring the Role of Algorithms in Online Harmful Speech | The Berkman Klein Center
- SPLC releases alt-right guide for college students worried about hate speech | Mic
- Meet Hatreon, the new favorite website of the alt-right | Newsweek
- Sikhs in America: A history of hate| ProPublica
- Evanston mayor to wait on diversity study before making library board picks | Chicago Tribune
- Summer selection reflection: How can I refresh my selection habits? | Intellectual Freedom Blog
- The Toxic Drama on YA Twitter | The Vulture
- Eric Trump accuses Twitter of censorship | The Hill
- D.A.’s Office: No criminal action for “vulgar” Victor haiku book| WHAM (NY)
- FaceApp launches ‘blackface’ feature, then deletes it after social backlash| BBC
- Jeannette Walls’ controversial book, ‘The Glass Castle,’ now a movie | Pittsburgh Post Gazette
International Issues
- Step inside a Los Angeles bookstore that takes on Iran’s censors | WCAI (CA)
- China’s internet censors play a tougher game of cat and mouse | New York Times
- In defence of Kulaszka’s memorial at Toronto library | Canadian Jewish News
- UK data protection laws to be overhauled | BBC
- Russian man fined for posting Jesus cartoons on social media | CBLDF
ALA News
- New e-Forum 9/5: Power that is Moral: Cataloging and Ethics | ALCTS; ”
At ALA Annual in June 2017, Elizabeth Shoemaker and Violet Fox spoke at the CaMMS Forum about “Power That Is Moral: Creating a Cataloging Code of Ethics”. This e-Forum is designed to continue that discussion about creating a document that would help guide ethical cataloging decisions.”
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