Intellectual Freedom News 9/15/2017
September 15, 2017 – Collated by OIF Staff and News Interns
Intellectual Freedom Highlights
- Nine days until Banned Books Week! Supporting our Thunderclap takes just a few clicks. We’ve almost reached our goal!
- The KC librarian on trial for defending a man’s free speech has been found not guilty | The Kansas City Star
- Personal Biases Must Not Impede Library Services | CBLDF
Censorship
- Surely there is literature that isn’t lewd; Students should not be reading profane books; Book’s message is inappropriate; Content is wrong for children | Thousand Oaks Acorn
- Large majority of writers fear censorship and ‘fake news’ | The Bookseller; “More than 80% of writers are concerned about censorship and ‘fake news’, according to the “alarming” findings of a study by PEN International.”
- YouTube’s Orson Welles of poop wants to sanitize cinema | Wired
Privacy
- ACLU and EFF sue Trump administration over cell phone searches at the border | Motherboard
- On the Equifax Data Breach | Schneier on Security
- Apple’s iOS 11 will make it even harder for cops to extract your data | Wired
- How to protect yourself from that massive Equifax breach | Wired
- ISPs claim a privacy law would weaken online security and increase pop-ups | Ars Technica (California)
- What is the Right to Be Forgotten and where did it come from? | TechWorld
- Prepare Now for Topical Storm Chrome 62 | Go to Hellman
See this week’s additional privacy news and updates on the Choose Privacy Week blog.
Access
- ASU partners with public libraries to advance citizen science | Arizona State University Now
- Access your library’s e-offerings from your phone with Libby | The Washington Post
- America Trusts the Library | OIF Blog; “A recent Pew poll indicates that a majority of Americans not only realize that they are often surrounded by misinformation, but also that the library can help them wade through it all.”
- Private Equity Firm Acquires Rita’s Italian Ice, Now Eying California Public Library | Huffington Post
Filters
- Stop SESTA: Whose voices will SESTA silence? | Electronic Freedom Foundation
- Chromebook controversy: ‘Every parent should be concerned’ about web-enabled school laptops, parents say | The Record (Ontario)
Net Neutrality
- Congress, don’t let net neutrality debate fall victim to executive orders | The Hill
- Rural Broadband Shouldn’t Come at the Expense of Being Affordable and Effective | New America
Academic Freedom/ Campus Speech
- UC Berkeley Chancellor Carol T. Christ: ‘Free speech has itself become controversial’ | Los Angeles Times
- The right to be right | The Harvard Crimson
- The Israel litmus-test and scholarly freedom | Los Angeles Times
- A nationwide movement protecting the student press from censorship gains momentum | Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press
- After Charlottesville, colleges vow to do something. But what? | The New York Times
- How a group of instructors is standing up to the right-wing outrage machine | The Chronicle of Higher Education
- What lies ahead in the campus-speech wars? | The Chronicle of Higher Education
First Amendment Issues
- Did school overstep when it disciplined students for appearing in photo wearing KKK-style hoods? | The Washington Post
- Poll: Most California Democrats want to restrict free speech from white nationalists | The Mercury News
- Study shows how people think about free speech | NPR
- Law against disturbing public meetings is unconstitutional, MN Supreme Court rules | Twin Cities Pioneer Press
- State high courts can provide greater free-speech protections | Newseum Institute
- What a Day to Celebrate Student Voice and Choice! | NCTE; This Sunday, September 17, is Constitution Day, the commemoration of the signing of the U.S. Constitution on September 17, 1787.
Hate Speech
- The Free Speech / Hate Speech Tradeoff | New York Times
- “Hate has no home here”: The post-Charlottesville school library | Knowledge Quest
- Facebook Enabled Advertisers to Reach ‘Jew Haters’ | ProPublica
Around the Web
- How people approach facts and information | Pew Research Center
- Americans are poorly informed about basic constitutional provisions | Annenberg Public Policy Center
- Former Downers Grove library trustee asks court to reverse Village Council decision | mysuburbanlife.com (Illinois)
- Pro-censorship library board member removed in Downers Grove | Comic Book Legal Defense Fund
- Amazon just deleted over 900 reviews of Hillary Clinton’s new book | Quartz
- The convoluted world of best-seller lists, explained | Vox
- Terms of service aren’t just annoying – they’re a failure | Wired
International Issues
- Library patrons allowed to surf porn, Ottawa mom discovers | CBC News (Canada)
- CUP and the censorship of historical truth | The Daily Campus (UConn)
- Futuristic ‘self access’ technology could replace library staff in Leicestershire | Leicester Mercury (UK)
- RT, Sputnik, and Russia’s new theory of war | The New York Times
- EU-US Privacy Shield under high scrutiny | Lexology
- China’s thought police are giving a master class in censorship | The Washington Post
Banned Books Week
- Celebrate September 24-30; Posters, Buttons and Totes in the ALA Store, Free Downloads, Rebel Reader Twitter Tournament, Thunderclap, and Stand for the Banned. #BannedBooksWeek
- TLA Banned Books Week Display Contest | Tennessee Library Association
- Forest Grove Library puts controversial books on trial | Hillsboro Tribune
- Celebrate Banned Books Week with these 7 Banned Horror Books | iHorror
- #BannedBooksWeek: A full slate of events | Index on Censorship
- Banned! Books in Drag; Seattle Public Library hosts drag show based around banned books | Capitol Hill Times
- Hunt for Freedom at SSU library celebrates the right to read | Sonoma State Star
- CBLDF Banned Books Week Handbook 2017 | CBLDF
- Take a Stand for Books | Arlington Public Library
- Teaching about Censorship and Banned Books in High School | Reading and Writing Haven
- Simon and Schuster is giving away a collection of Banned Books! | Simon and Schuster
- Ari Edelson, John Cariani, Andrea Frierson and More Join DLDF’s ‘BANNED TOGETHER‘ | Broadway World
- Lib Loop: Banned Books Week at local libraries | Sierra Sun
ALA News
- Senate boosts funding for IMLS, LSTA thanks to ALA grassroots; House approves full IMLS, LSTA and IAL funding for FY 2018 | District Dispatch
- Readers invited to participate in Rebel Reader Twitter Tournament during Banned Books Week
- Library Card Sign Up Month with Teen Titans #LibraryCardSignUp
- Webinar (United for Libraries): Troubled Library Boards: Prevention and Survival | Tuesday, October 17, 2017 @ 2 pm EST
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