Intellectual Freedom News 11/17/17
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November 17, 2017 - Collated by OIF Staff and News Interns **Note: The Intellectual Freedom News will not be published next week so our fantastic staff and interns can enjoy their Thanksgiving holiday. We will resume publication on December 1.**
Intellectual Freedom Highlights
Responding to database challenges | Intellectual Freedom Blog; "EBSCO is an online database company whose products are in thousands of schools, colleges and universities’ around the world. In September of 2016, the products they developed for the K-12 market came under attack in Colorado and Alabama. The challenges were made concerning the inclusion of sexual content deemed inappropriate for school-age children."
Censorship
Conejo Valley Unified board passes book opt-out policy after changes made to draft amendment | Ventura County Reporter (CA) 7th graders assigned to read explicit book | KTNV (NV) Disney lifts ban on L.A. Times film critics | Los Angeles Times
Privacy
Criminals make student data public in escalating demands for ransom | NBC News TV stations are about to track you and sell targeted ads, just like Google and Facebook | Washington Post It’s time to tax companies for using our personal data | New York Times Hackers say they've broken face ID a week after the iPhone X release | Wired Florida court: Dead or not, privacy right remains alive | U.S. News and World Report See this week's additional privacy news and updates on the Choose Privacy Week blog.
Access
What I learned about the limits of school choice in New York City from a mother whose child uses a wheelchair | Chalkbeat
Free Press, Social Media, and Fake News
Manipulating Social Media to Undermine Democracy | Freedom House Cheap tricks: The low cost of internet harassment | ProPublica Twitter un-verifies accounts attached to the “alt-right” | Salon
Net Neutrality and Broadband Access
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Protect net neutrality and Internet freedom: World Wide Web inventor | USA Today When students can’t get broadband, career success proves elusive | EdTech Magazine
Academic Freedom/ Campus Speech
Defunding Black Panther research infringes on academic freedom | The Daily Californian
Try to discuss speech and academic freedom at Boise State, and nuance is the first casualty | Idaho Statesman
First Amendment Issues
Supreme Court agrees to hear three new First Amendment cases | The Washington Post Mass. schools wrestle with hate incidents | Telegram (MA) Hate crimes in the United States increased last year, FBI says | Washington Post ECC panel: 'Good speech' can conquer hate speech | Chicago Tribune The First (Terms of Service) Amendment | Huffington Post Policy Architecture and Internet Freedom | The Recorder
Around the Web
Removing racist monuments is about making history, not erasing it | Brookings Institute 'To Kill A Mockingbird' not the most controversial book in Mississippi classrooms | Clarion Ledger The dangers of tweeting at conferences | Chronicle of Higher Education Chalkboard controversy: Naughty graffiti and social media safety in a middle school library space | School Library Journal
International Issues
Chinese nationalism jostles with academic freedom in Australia | New York Times Beyond state control | Dublin Inquirer Books come under suspicion in post-coup Turkey | Deutsche Welle Manchester University accused of unprofessionalism and censorship | Mancunion Cambridge slammed for 'censoring' Palestine BDS event | Aljazeera
ALA News
John Phillip Immroth Memorial Award for intellectual freedom due December 1 Webinar - Privacy to Pornography: What Staff Need to Know about Intellectual Freedom (Free for FTRF and IFRT members)
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