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Intellectual Freedom News
June 22, 2016
Office for Intellectual Freedom
- OIF and Intellectual Freedom in Orlando – the full line up of socials, sessions, and meetings.
- Banned Books Read Out @ #ALAAC16 – Saturday and Sunday from 9am – 5pm outside the exhibit hall.
- Intellectual Freedom Round Table Awards Reception & Member Social – Saturday, 6/25/16 @ 7:00-9:00 pm at the Regency Hyatt Orlando in Room Bayhill 17. Food will be served, and a cash bar will be available.
- Take the Cake: A Generational Talkback – Monday, 6/27/16 @ 1:00-2:30 pm. For many years, intellectual freedom, a core value of librarianship and many colleagues in the publishing world, has looked to a near First Amendment absolutism. Today, a growing concern over the need for more diversity in publishing, a greater sensitivity to the abuses of power and privilege, has given rise to a stronger commitment in the field to social justice. Are these values in conflict? Is one value replacing another? In an era of trigger warnings, revenge porn, and an emerging global community of new voices, what does IF mean today? What are our responsibilities as one generation of publishers and librarians begins to give way to another?
Censorship
- FL; The Perks of Being a Wallflower; Column: Banning ‘The Perks of Being a Wallflower’ will only attract more young readers | Tampa Bay Times
- Book challenge prompts review of school district policy | Tampa Bay Times
- VA; Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art; Letter: Why I support the museum | The Virginian Pilot
- NY; George; Be Who You Are: The transgender issue in local schools and libraries | Ithaca
- TX; Phil Bildner; Author alleges school bias after backing book with transgender kid | Austin Statesman
- Subversion Not OK at RRISD: School district faces accusations of censorship | Austin Chronicle
- VT; Kate Messner; Kate Messner’s Wish | Intellectual Freedom Blog
Legislation & Filtering
- Montana; Billings library board sticking with its internet access policy | Billings Gazette
- Court upholds Obama-backed net neutrality rules | Politico
- Internet Filtering, School Faculty, and Trust: A Modest Proposal | Internet At Schools
- Losing—And Then Winning: The Story of Virginia’s HB 516 | NCTE
- NC Cyberbullying Law Unconstitutional, NC Supreme Court Says | The News & Observer
- The Dangers of Internet Filtering | American Libraries
Privacy
- Stop the Government’s Hacking Loophole | No Global Warrants
- Protecting Patron Privacy:Libraries Are Failing to Use HTTPS | American Libraries
- FBI is developing software to sort, track and profile citizens by their tattoos | The Next Web
- Artist’s campaign targets biometric surveillance | Christian Science Monitor
- Why Twitter gave a woman’s home address to her cyberstalkers | The Washington Post
Around the Web
- Should We Censor What Teens Read? | Huffington Post
- After Snowden, Can Technology Save Our Digital Liberties? | OpenDemocracy
- The Pirate Library Controversy | Public Libraries Online
- FBI: ISIS Hacked Arkansas Library Association’s Website | Arkansas Matters
- Teachers need free-speech protection, too (Noah Feldman) | The Virginain-Pilot
- Defying China, Hong Kong Bookseller Describes Detention | New York Times
- Book Bans Are Political Proxy Wars, And Conservatives Are Losing | The Federalist
- Peter Thiel just gave other billionaires a dangerous blueprint for perverting philanthropy | Fusion
- Proposed Mexican-American Studies Textbook: Chicanos Want to ‘Destroy This Society’ | Texas Observer
- Pornucopia: Critics say that porn degrades women, dulls sexual pleasure, and ruins authentic relationships – are they right? | Aeon
- DIVERSITY 102: THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS BATTLE OVER “ILLEGAL ALIEN” | Lee and Low
- Lyons: Activist thwarts library’s ‘evaluation’ of a special section | Herald Tribune
- New Hanover County Schools tells noted novelist Clyde Edgerton to stay away | Charlotte Observer
- Banning religious schools from voucher program is not discrimination, federal judge rules | ABA Journal
- FAN 111 (First Amendment News) Flying Dog Brewery Launches First Amendment Society | Concurring Opinions
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