August 11, 2017 – Collated by OIF Staff and News Interns

Censorship

• The banned books Michigan prisoners aren’t allowed to read| Signature
  • Banning black liberation: Michigan prisoners are barred from reading Frantz Fanon | MuckRock
• 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
  • California congressman defends student’s painting against calls for removal | CBLDF
• 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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