Intellectual Freedom News 9/27/19
Highlights
- Censorship beyond books | American Libraries
- Banned Books: Librarians push back against censorship | WTTW (IL)
- 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
- Censorship leaves us in the dark: A banned books reading list | NCAC
- Libraries ‘Keep the Light On’ During Banned Books Week | ALA News
- Join “Celebrate Banned Books Week”: a Facebook group designed to foster meaningful conversation and share engaging ideas for anyone who celebrates Banned Books Week.
- Harry Potter and the poorly-read exorcists | The New York Times
- Banned Books Week–Let’s keep our shelves controversial | Daily Utah Chronicle
- Banned Books Week: Oppose censorship and ‘keep the light on’ | People for the American Way
- What banned books tell us about the literary canon | The Mary Sue
- Have you ever read a book you weren’t supposed to read? | The New York Times
- Banned Books Week: A European perspective | Fine Books & Collections
- I’m with the Banned…Books, ALA, and City Lit Theater | Rebellious Magazine for Women
- Banned Books around the world | Bookseller
- Yes, Books Are Banned | Inside Higher Ed
- Literature locked up: A Banned Books Week 2019 reading list | PEN America
- Obscene, unpatriotic, blasphemous: Banned books through time | Al Jazeera
- “I wish we didn’t need Banned Books Week”: The real cost of banning books | NCAC
- History of comics censorship | CBLDF
- Why Barry Wittenstein and Jerry Pinkney want you to read these banned books | School Library Journal
- Alex Gino shares what it’s like to author the #1 most banned book | OIF Blog
Censorship
- Book challenges put small library in a bind | Portland Tribune (OR)
- Book discussing police brutality cleared to be read after CMS review process | WBTV (NC)
- Library weighing options before ‘filtering’ content | Coeur d’Alene Press
- Groups protest outside Drag Queen Story Hour Spartanburg library | Upstate.com (SC)
- Mid-Continent Library evaluating future of transgender program | KSHB 41 (KC)
- US prisons banning thousands of books ‘on arbitrary grounds’ | The Guardian
Privacy and Cybersecurity
- Amazon cracks down on third party apps over privacy violations | Wired
- Jeff Bezos Says Amazon is Writing its Own Facial Recognition Laws to Pitch to Lawmakers | Vox
- FTC may loosen children’s digital privacy rules | Digital News Daily
- How Your Private Illinois Tollway Data is Shared with Cops and Divorce Lawyers | WBEZ Chicago
- The iOS 13 privacy and security features you should know | Wired
- Amazon pushes Alexa privacy with new delete options | The Verge
- Vimeo collects facial scans without permission, lawsuit alleges | Ars Technica
- GDPR’s right to be forgotten limited to EU websites | Inside Privacy
- Should artificial intelligence be used to assess potential employees | OIF Blog
Additional privacy posts, news, and updates are available at the Choose Privacy Everyday blog.
Access
- Employers Used Facebook to Keep Women and Older Workers From Seeing Job Ads. The Federal Government Thinks That’s Illegal. | ProPublica
- 2019 Inclusive Intership initiative concludes in D.C. | American Libraries
- One-in-five Americans now listen to audiobooks | Pew Research Center
Net Neutrality & Broadband Access
Academic Freedom & Campus Speech
- Education Dept. takes aim at a center on Middle East studies. Scholars say that could chill academic freedom. | Chronicle of Higher Education
- Students’ attitudes toward controversial speech are changing. Here’s why. | Chronicle of Higher Education
- Michigan’s bias-response team uses indirect threats to chill free speech, appeals court finds | Chronicle of Higher Education
- Diversity of thought | Chronicle of Higher Education; “As polarizing forces threaten campus conversations, this guide can help you learn to better support productive debates and civic engagement at your institution.”
- The Senate takes on campus censorship | Wall Street Journal
Fake News, Free Press, Social Media
- Facebooks restricts speech by popular demand | The Atlantic
- The Pee Tape Is Real, but It’s Fake | Salon
- Hawley claims Facebook’s Zuckerberg admitted bias in censoring pro-life content | National Review
First Amendment & Free Speech
- Court: First Amendment protects ‘hate group’ label | Associated Press
- The controversial use of rap lyrics as evidence | The New Yorker
- A Pastafarian hilariously trolled a town council meeting. The stakes are profoundly serious. | Vox
Around the Web
- Who doesn’t read books in America? | Pew Research Center
- Books Won’t Die | The Paris Review
- Steal This Book? There’s a Price | The New York Times
- A hateful, conspiracy-filled book just got harder to buy. That’s no cause for celebration. | Washington Post
- These 15 Jewish heroes rescued books from the jaws of censors | Forward
- FOX censors Sarah Silverman’s salty complaint on Emmy red carpet about…censorship | Deadline
- A preview of the new Kurt Vonnegut Library and Museum is open for Banned Books Week | Mental Floss
- History of comics censorship | CBLDF
- A Brief History of Time–Censored for being unethical | OIF Blog
- Scientific Censorship: Not Merely a Problem of Yesterday | OIF Blog
International Issues
- One brother stabbed another. The journalist who wrote about it paid a price. | The New York Times
- Revealed: How TikTok sensors videos that do not please Beijing | The Guardian
- The growing threat to journalism around the world | New York Times
- New report on academic freedom and China | Inside Higher Ed
- The Irish For: How censorship has affected Irish language books | The Journal (Ireland)
- Kenya Publishers Association calls or thorough review of books | KBC (Kenya)
- Netflix and Amazon Prime may have to censor explicit content in India soon | Vice
ALA News
- Rainbow Round Table seeks nominations for outstanding service to the LGBTQIA+ community
- New from ACRL–Improving Library Services in Support of International Students and English as a Second Language Learners
- 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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