[Libs-Or] Rights, Responsibilities and Reactions - Intellectual Freedom News - June 2019

[Lisa Taylor]

June 2019

Rights, Responsibilities and Reactions - Intellectual Freedom News

Censorship

Oregon prisons ban dozens of technology and programming books over security
concerns
<https://www.salemreporter.com/posts/891/oregon-prisons-ban-dozens-of-technology-and-programming-books-over-security-concerns>
Salem Reporter

Arizona prisons lift ban on book about mass incarceration
<https://www.npr.org/2019/06/21/734502003/arizona-prisons-lift-ban-on-book-about-mass-incarceration>
NPR

New Hampshire prisons ban books critical of prison system, award winners
<https://bookriot.com/2019/05/28/new-hampshire-prisons-ban-books/> Book Riot

UCA removes sign celebrating Gay Pride Month from outside library
<https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2019/jun/18/uca-removes-sign-celebrating-gay-pride-month-outsi/>
 Arkansas
Democrat Gazette

Who has your back?  Censorship edition 2019
<https://www.eff.org/wp/who-has-your-back-2019>  Electronic Frontier
Foundation

Freedom of Speech

Librarians protest against CIA presence at ALA conference in Washington,
D.C., submit resolution
<https://www.libraryjournal.com/?detailStory=statement-against-cia-at-ala>
Library Journal

Free Speech Tracker <http://freespeechproject.georgetown.domains/> Georgetown
University



Privacy

Lynda's Privacy Problem <https://www.oif.ala.org/oif/?p=17968>  -  American
Library Association's Intellectual Freedom Blog

Sex, drugs, and self-harm:  Where 20 years of child online protection law
went wrong
<https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/06/13/sex-drugs-self-harm-where-years-child-online-protection-law-went-wrong/?utm_term=.bcb35f5e5d21>
Washington
Post

Schools are deploying massive digital surveillance systems.  The results
are alarming
<https://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2019/05/30/schools-are-deploying-massive-digital-surveillance-systems.html>
Education
Week

YouTube under Federal investigation over allegations it violates children's
privacy
<https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/06/19/facing-federal-investigation-youtube-is-considering-broad-changes-childrens-content/?utm_term=.2d6f7e6a8ece>
Washington Post

He won a landmark case.  He's going to jail anyway.
<https://nyti.ms/2MKgGgD> New York Times

The Lofgren-Amash Amendment would check warrantless surveillance
<https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/06/lofgren-amash-amendment-would-change-rules-warrantless-surveillance?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTnpreVpEaGpNek00TldSaSIsInQiOiJtOGRnWFpZcGk4dDBWakFIQjFRQXpBaGhvR00yVUhNM0YyRnF5cHJcL1Z6RFdFSk5Ub09aZ3g0R2lFVVhKTUpYcjM3K3Z4V1ZNMkJZTFRhVkJ6ZGs1RGRYZk45aTFWbUY1SFwvaEI3N2NQNXltRUh3RzE3QVo1SWtDTkw4TWhqelhXIn0%3D>
 Electronic
Frontier Foundation

Access

Internet blackouts:  the rise of government-imposed shut-downs
<https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/internet-blackouts-rise-government-imposed-shut-downs-190614091628723.html>
 Al
Jazeera

The Digital Public Library of America has re-released the Mueller Report as
a well-formatted ebook instead of a crappy PDF
<https://boingboing.net/2019/05/24/pdfs-suck.html> boingboing

As Kanopy's popularity grows, can your library continue to  afford it?
<https://www.indiewire.com/2019/06/new-york-public-library-drops-kanopy-netflix-alternative-too-expensive-1202153550/>
Indie
Wire

Diversity

Joy Harjo becomes the first Native American US Poet Laureate
<https://www.npr.org/2019/06/19/733727917/joy-harjo-becomes-the-first-native-american-u-s-poet-laureate>
 NPR

An updated look at diversity in children's books
<https://www.slj.com/?detailStory=an-updated-look-at-diversity-in-childrens-books>
School Library Journal

Carnegie Medal goes to first writer of colour in its 83 year history
<https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/jun/18/carnegie-medal-first-writer-of-colour-elizabeth-acevedo-the-poet-x>
The Guardian

Technology

How A.I. could be weaponized to spread disinformation
<https://nyti.ms/2XwQgzN> New York Times

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Rights, Responsibilities & Reactions is a monthly roundup of Intellectual
Freedom News compiled by the Multnomah County Library Intellectual Freedom
Committee
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