Intellectual Freedom News 9/14/2018
September 14, 2018 – Collated by OIF Staff and News Editors
Intellectual Freedom Highlights
- Dear Banned Author | What would you say to your favorite banned and challenged author? This Banned Books Week (September 23-29), we’re hosting a Dear Banned Author letter-writing campaign, and we hope you’ll join us! Visit the website to find author addresses, programming tools and printable postcards.
- Seeking feedback from library community on meeting rooms document | OIF Blog; “The Intellectual Freedom Committee would appreciate feedback from the library community on this draft. ALA members and non-members alike are invited to provide feedback on the draft interpretation by September 14, 2018.”
- FB Live Event: 6 ways to express your inner activist for banned books week | OIF Blog
Censorship
- Illinois prisons ban Pulitzer Prize-winning book on Attica | Suburban Chicagoland
- Censorship of Burlington school newspaper may have violated law | Seven Days Vermont
- Mobile Public Library hosts its first “Drag Queen Story Hour | Alabama Public Radio
Banned Books Week
- Speaking Out: Voicing Movements in the Face of Censorship (Free Webinar) | SAGE Publishing, American Library Association, Index on Censorship
- Kimberly Butler’s “CENSORED” photo exhibition kicks off “Banned Books Week” | “CENSORED” features 20 provocative photos from Kimberly Butler’s forthcoming book of the same name. The photos she chose for this unique exhibition illustrate that “banning books silences stories” – the theme of this year’s “Banned Books Week” event – and that everyone needs to speak out against censorship.
- Crystallized banned books on display | “The crystallized banned book series celebrates and immortalizes the beauty, power and timelessness of books,” said the artist.
- More photos from the exhibit can be found on BannedBooks.com
- Watch: Banned Books Week 2018, UK Teen Edition | School Library Journal
- City Lit Theater announces celebration of ‘Banned Books Week’ | Broadway World
- Banned Books Week: Censorship of Books and More | Knowledge Quest
- Celebrate Banned Books Week at your library with Image Comics’ Library livestreams | CBLDF
- Banned Books Week 2018 focuses on author and reader activism | ALA News
Privacy
- New Mexico AG Files Lawsuit Alleging Tech Companies Illegally Track Children | Government Technology
- FBI Raises Alarm on Ed Tech and Student Data Privacy, Security | Education Week
- How Game Apps That Captivate Kids Have Been Collecting Their Data | New York Times
- Google Knows Where You’ve Been, but Does It Know Who You Are? | New York Times
- Internet group backs ‘national’ data privacy approach | Reuters
- States Loom as a Regulatory Threat to Tech Giants | Wall Street Journal
- 23andMe cuts off the DNA app ecosystem it created | Wired
- Google Case Asks: Can Europe Export Privacy Rules World-Wide? | Wall Street Journal
- Google is fighting a big, messy battle over whether expanding the ‘right to be forgotten’ amounts to censorship | Business Insider
- UK’s mass surveillance regime violated human rights law, finds ECHR | TechCrunch
See this week’s additional privacy news and updates on the Choose Privacy Everyday blog.
Net Neutrality and Broadband Access
- In Vermont, FCC chairman says states can’t regulate internet providers | WVNY (VT)
- Net neutrality or not, new research shows cell carriers throttle video content all the time | GeekWire
- FCC data exaggerates broadband access on tribal lands | Ars Technica
- About a quarter of rural Americans say access to high-speed internet is a major problem | Pew Research Center Facttank
- Ajit Pai helped Charter kill consumer-protection rules in Minnesota | Ars Technica
Access
- A war of the roses: Should libraries take a stance on 3-D gun printing? | OIF Blog
- 3D-Printed Guns: An Overview of Recent Legal Developments | Congressional Research Service
Copyright
Free Press, Social Media, and Fake News
- Warner: ‘overwhelming majority’ of Republicans would back social media regulations | The Hill
- Sessions Open to Probe of Social Media Giants, Sources Say | Bloomberg News
- Who will stand up for the First Amendment on internet platforms? | Brookings Institution
- Indicators of news media trust | Pew Research
- Teen Social Media Use Is Skyrocketing. But Don’t Panic, New Research Says | Education Week
- Teens and social media survey says: It’s complicated | School Library Journal
Academic Freedom & Campus Speech
- U. of Nebraska wondered whether conservative students were being silenced. Here’s what it found out. | The Chronicle of Higher Education
First Amendment and Free Speech
- Principal reverses decision on posting of misconduct story | The New York Times; “Student journalists at a Vermont high school who were asked by the principal to remove a story they broke about unprofessional conduct charges against a guidance director can now repost the article.”
- If you want a democracy, don’t censor student journalists | Maine Campus
- Why is freedom of speech an important right? When, if ever, can it be limited? | The New York Times
- Right of association isn’t infringed by disclosure of charitable donors to state, 9th Circuit says | ABA Journal
Around the Web
- To restore civil society, start with the library | The New York Times
- Invisible Rainbow | OIF Blog
- Happy Birthday, Roald Dahl! | OIF Blog
- The pack horse librarians of eastern Kentucky | NPR
International Issues
- The Real Google Censorship Scandal: It’s not about right-wing Americans. It’s about China. | The New York Times
- Brazil’s museum fire proves cultural memory needs a digital backup | Wired
- Vibrant Libraries, Thriving Schools: A National Strategy for School Libraries in Scotland, 2018-2023
- CPJ: Pakistan’s military curbing press freedoms using fear, intimidation | RadioFreeEurope
- EU acts against Hungary, citing academic freedom | Inside Higher Ed
- France goes to court to censor Google search globally | Forbes
ALA News
- Volunteer to serve on ALA, Council, and joint committees for 2019 – 2021
- I Love My Librarian! 2018 Award nominations now open
- Libraries invited to apply for Great Stories Club grants on Truth, Racial Healing & Transformation
- ALA’s new Graphic Novels & Comics Round Table is open for membership
- ALSC announces new Equity Fellowships
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