Intellectual Freedom News 9/20/19
Highlights
- ALA Announces eBooks for All Campaign | American Libraries
- Nominations open for 2020 IFRT John Phillip Immroth Memorial Award
- Searching for Intellectual Freedom Bloggers 2020 – Apply by September 30th. Click to retweet.
Banned Books Week
- “Keep the Light On” with these helpful tools | OIF Blog
- For librarians, Banned Books Week is a chance to discuss censorship, intellectual freedom with students | School Library Journal
- Easy ‘Banned Books Week’ programming for the busy academic librarian | OIF Blog
- Literature locked up: Banned Books Week 2019 | PEN America
- Libraries ‘Keep the Light On’ During Banned Books Week | ALA News
- Countdown to Banned Books Week 2019 | Facebook
- No shipping needed with DIY digital Banned Books Week files for sale through ALA Store.
- Join “Celebrate Banned Books Week”: a Facebook group designed to foster meaningful conversation and share engaging ideas for anyone who celebrates Banned Books Week.
- Curbing censorship | Boise Weekly
- Persecuted authors championed during Banned Books Week | Patch
Censorship
- Drag Queen Story Hour: glittery entertainment or gender-bending provocation? | The San Diego Union-Tribune
- Drag-queen debate spotlights creepy trend on right | Orange County Register
- Mother says she complained about police brutality book; CMS says they received no criticism | WSOC-TV (NC); ‘All American Boys’
Privacy and Cybersecurity
- Secret F.B.I. Subpoenas Scoop Up Personal Data From Scores of Companies | New York Times
- You Watch TV. Your TV Watches Back | The Washington Post
- Australian not-for-profit’s encryption solution to privacy breaches | Tech Republic
- Review: Everybody lies: Big data, new data, and what the internet can tell us about who we really are | OIF Blog
- Millions of Americans’ medical images and data are available on the Internet | Ars Technica
- The Real Risk of Data Breach and What Schools Can Do to be Prepared | JD Supra
- Newsletter: CEOs Support a Federal Privacy Law, but for All the Wrong Reasons | Los Angeles Times
Additional privacy posts, news, and updates are available at the Choose Privacy Everyday blog.
Access
- Students in Iowa City school district will soon have expanded access to large area libraries | KCRG ABC News
- The Constitution, annotated: The Constitution explained in plain English | Library of Congress Blog; ” To celebrate this year’s Constitution Day, the Library is launching the Constitution Annotated, a website that provides online access to a massive Senate document that has served for more than a century as the official record of the U.S. Constitution. “
- New deals could help scientific societies survive open access | Science Magazine
- San Francisco Public Library eliminates overdue fines | NBC Bay Area
- Examples of changes to the EPA website that undermine public access to scientific information | EDGI
Net Neutrality & Broadband Access
- Intellectual Freedom Fighters, Part 5: Rural internet access groups | OIF Blog
- Comcast’s Internet Essentials delivers low-cost broadband to people with disabilities | CNet
- The homework gap: Teacher perspectives on closing the digital divide | Common Sense Media
- Are slow internet connections holding back American schools? | Brookings
- Cities, not rural areas, are the real Internet deserts | The Washington Post
- Response: Too uneducated to understand the importance of home Internet? | Benton Institute for Broadband & Society
Academic Freedom & Campus Speech
- Wheaton College students sue city, say rights to free speech, religious liberty were violated by guards booting them from Millennium Park, restricting access | Chicago Tribune
- The left-wing threat to campus free speech is abating. The right-wing threat is not. (Opinion) | The Week
Fake News, Free Press, Social Media
- Finally, Facebook put someone in charge | The Atlantic
- Facebook plans launch of its own “Supreme Court” for handling takedown appeals | Ars Technica
- I create fake videos. Here’s why people believe even the obvious ones | Fast Company
- Combating Anti-Social Media | Media Post
- Press freedom advocates troubled by suit against Iowa paper | The New York Times
- Antitrust and “Big Tech” | Congressional Research Service (PDF)
First Amendment & Free Speech
- Arizona artists win suit over same-sex wedding invitations | The New York Times
- The Right Wing’s War on the L.G.B.T.Q. Community | The New Yorker
- Judge partially blocks law aimed at oil pipeline protests | The New York Times
- Does the First Amendment protect speech made by Artificial Intelligence? | Freedom Forum Institute
- Federal appeals court rules commissioners’ prayer practice unconstitutional | Freedom Forum Institute
- School officials need a First Amendment lesson | Freedom Forum Institute
Around the Web
- The connection between video games and mass shootings isn’t just wrong—it’s racist | MIT Technology Review
- Why Americans Don’t Fully Trust Many Who Hold Positions of Power and Responsibility | Pew Research Center
- Steal this book? There’s a price | The New York Times
- The discovery dark ages: How filter bubbles, dark patterns, and algorithms propagating bias impede the spread of knowledge | Medium
- Common Sense Media and ‘positive messages’ about youth | OIF Blog
- Three out of four U.S. consumers read books or listened to audiobooks in the past six months, the NPD Group says | NPD Group
International Issues
- Next Drag Queen Story Time at library likely to be the last | The Daily Courier (Canada)
- Chinese censorship prompts complaint from ruling party-linked newspaper editor | Radio Free Asia
- Musa Kart freed by top Turkish appeals court order | CBLDF
ALA News
- ALA launches national campaign against e-book embargo
- Public Library Association launches 2020 health insurance enrollment project
- ALA announces National Library Legislative Day to be held in May 2020
- Introducing the Libraries Transform Book Pick
- To be considered as a volunteer for the ALA, Council, and Joint committees for the 2020-2022 term, forms must be submitted no later than September 30, 2019.
- Nominate a superstar librarian for the I Love My Librarian award before Oct. 21, 2019.
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