[Libs-Or] Rights, Responsibilities & Reactions: Intellectual Freedom News, February 2019

[Lisa Taylor]

February 2019

Rights, Responsibilities & Reactions

Intellectual Freedom News


Censorship


John Oliver's bunny book triggers teacher investigation
<http://cbldf.org/2019/02/john-olivers-bunny-book-triggers-teacher-investigation/>
Comic Book Legal Defense Fund

Drag queen story hour in America's Bible Belt
<https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-47203976> BBC

Group asks school district to remove 14 books from libraries
<https://www.ocala.com/news/20190226/group-asks-school-district-to-remove-14-books-from-libraries>
Ocala Star Banner

Jodorowsky retrospective cancelled at El Museo del Barrio:  Are museums
abdicating their mission? A new cancellation raises troubling questions
<https://ncac.org/news/blog/jodorowsky-retrospective-cancelled-at-el-museo-del-barrio>
National
Coalition Against Censorship

The new censors won't delete your words -- they'll drown them out (Opinion)
<https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/global-opinions/the-new-censors-wont-delete-your-words--theyll-drown-them-out/2019/02/08/c8a926a2-2b27-11e9-984d-9b8fba003e81_story.html>
 Washington Post

Mother Upset After Son Kicked Out of Class Over Pledge of Allegiance

Privacy

Consumer privacy before congress this week: What we learned and what's next
<https://www.publicknowledge.org/news-blog/blogs/consumer-privacy-before-congress-this-week-what-we-learned-and-whats-next/>
Public Knowledge

ACLU, NAACP call on Congress to address discrimination in privacy laws
<https://www.cnet.com/news/aclu-naacp-call-on-congress-to-address-discrimination-in-privacy-laws/>
CNN

The Feds favorite iPhone hacking tool is selling on ebay for $100 -- and
it's leaking data
<https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2019/02/27/the-feds-favorite-iphone-hacking-tool-is-selling-on-ebay-for-100and-its-leaking-data/?wpisrc=nl_cybersecurity202&wpmm=1#53fbac645dd4>
Forbes

Many popular iPhone apps secretly record your screen without asking
<https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/06/iphone-session-replay-screenshots/>
TechCrunch

Cybersecurity 101 <https://techcrunch.com/tag/cybersecurity-101/> Tech
Crunch

Putting data privacy in the hands of users
<http://news.mit.edu/2019/riverbed-app-data-privacy-0220> MIT News


Diversity


<http://www.ala.org/advocacy/hatefulconduct>

Libraries and hate speech:  ALA's new resource 'Hateful conduct in
libraries: Supporting library workers and patrons
<https://www.oif.ala.org/oif/?p=16902>  American Library Association
Intellectual Freedom Blog


Racism and the American Library Association
<https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2019/02/01/american-library-association-criticized-response-racism-complaint>
Inside Higher Ed

Anchorage activists form 'Queen's Guard' to protect LGBT events
<https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2019/02/26/anchorage-activists-form-queens-guard-protect-lgbt-events>
Southern Poverty Law Center

Supreme Court takes up Trump administration's plan to ask about citizenship
in Census
<https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/courts_law/supreme-court-takes-up-trump-administrations-plan-to-ask-about-citizenship-in-census/2019/02/15/1e0ce8e8-3138-11e9-8ad3-9a5b113ecd3c_story.html?utm_term=.2920a419b2f2>
 Washington Post

Access

United States of America joins WIPO’s Marrakesh Treaty as 50th member in
major advance for the global blind community
<https://www.wipo.int/pressroom/en/articles/2019/article_0002.html> World
Intellectual Property Organization

Should libraries be keepers of their cities public data?
<https://www.nextgov.com/analytics-data/2019/02/should-libraries-be-keepers-their-cities-public-data/154856/>
Nextgov

Man uses library system's free access to create dyslexia app
<https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/oklahoma/articles/2019-01-28/a-man-uses-library-systems-free-access-create-dyslexia-app>
U.S. News & World Report

A turning point for scholarly publishing
<https://www.chronicle.com/interactives/Trend19-OpenAccess-Main> Chronicle
of Higher Education



Freedom of Speech

When colleges confine free speech to a 'zone', it isn't free
<https://www.aclu.org/blog/free-speech/student-speech-and-privacy/when-colleges-confine-free-speech-zone-it-isnt-free>
 ACLU

Mother upset after son kicked out of class over pledge of allegiance
<https://www.baynews9.com/fl/tampa/news/2019/02/14/mother-upset-after-son-kicked-out-of-class-over-pledge-of-allegiance?utm_source=National+Coalition+Against+Censorship+-+General+Newsletter&utm_campaign=6cbdb4a788-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_07_26_02_21_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c54334e8b0-6cbdb4a788-139396145>
Bay
News 9

Coalition alarmed by violation of student's rights in Florida
<https://ncac.org/news/coalition-alarmed-by-violation-of-students-rights-in-florida?utm_source=National+Coalition+Against+Censorship+-+General+Newsletter&utm_campaign=6cbdb4a788-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_07_26_02_21_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c54334e8b0-6cbdb4a788-139396145>
National Coalition Against Censorship


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*Lisa Taylor*
Library Assistant
Multnomah County Library
Central Library
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Pronouns: she/her
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