Intellectual Freedom News 10/16/2020
Censorship
- California School District Removes Ghost Boys Over Political Viewpoints | NCAC
- Okaloosa School Board questioned about removal of “White Fragility” from classroom | Northwest Florida Daily News
Privacy and Cybersecurity
More privacy news is available at the Choose Privacy Every Day blog.
First Amendment, Free Speech, and Civil Liberties
- TikTok and the First Amendment | Slate
- Justice Dept. sues to seize profits of tell-all Melania Trump book, citing White House nondisclosure pact | The Washington Post
- Free speech? Hate speech? NIOT explores | Sentinel-Tribune (OH)
Access
- Textbooks in Short Supply Amid COVID Quarantines | Inside Higher Ed
- American Technology Is Used to Censor the Web From Algeria to Uzbekistan | Bloomberg
Net Neutrality & Broadband Access
- What Sheltering in Place Teaches Us About Net Neutrality | No Jitter
- Internet Freedom Has Taken a Hit During the Covid-19 Pandemic | Wired
Academic Freedom & Campus Speech
- Philosophy Professor Untangles Thorny Matters in His New Book | Columbia News (NY)
- Instruction Under Surveillance | The Chronicle of Higher Education
- Zoom, Facebook and YouTube Threaten Academic Freedom | NCAC
Social Media
- Twitter and Facebook Contend With Concerns Over Election Interference, Censorship | The Wall Street Journal
- Twitter’s answer to election misinformation: Make it harder to retweet | Vox
- Judge Orders Twitter To Unmask FBI Impersonator Who Set Off Seth Rich Conspiracy | NPR
- Facebook Bans Content About Holocaust Denial From Its Site | The New York Times
- FCC will move to regulate social media after censorship outcry | The Verge
- Twitter Limited The Sharing Of New York Post Story – Is It Social Media Censorship? | Forbes
- YouTube cracks down on QAnon conspiracists | Ars Technica
- YouTube Becomes Latest Tech Giant to Curb QAnon | The Wall Street Journal
Journalism, Media, & Disinformation
- Journalists are struggling with mental health, financial hardship, and disinformation, according to a “startling and disturbing” survey | Neiman Lab
- The New York Times Guild Once Again Demands Censorship of Colleagues | The Intercept
International News
- German-Style Internet Censorship Catches On Around the World | Reason
- A Chinese app managed to scale China’s Great Firewall, then got taken down | Fortune
- Pakistan’s TikTok ban is about censorship, not China | CNN
- Is Media under self-censorship or Enforced Muzzling? | Modern Diplomacy
- Zhang Yimou’s ‘One Second’ Set for China Release After Lengthy Censorship Struggle | The Hollywood Reporter
- Five Eyes accessing social media poses threats to freedom – civil liberties groups | New Zealand Media and Entertainment
- Civil Liberties Group Urges EU To Limit Data Transfers To The UK Post-Brexit | Forbes
Around the Web
- Netflix’s Sarandos Decries Censorship Push In U.S.; Texas Grand Jury Indicts Over ‘Cuties’ | Digital News Daily
- Peloton removed QAnon hashtags from its platform as tech companies grapple with the conspiracy theory movement | Business Insider
- How a Road Trip Through America’s Battlegrounds Revealed a Nation Plagued by Misinformation | TIME
- Bette Greene, novelist whose ‘Summer of My German Soldier’ became a young-adult hit, dies at 86 | The Washington Post
- Stephen King, Margaret Atwood and Roxane Gay champion trans rights in open letter | The Guardian
- Pa. libraries launch ‘Hear Me Out’ to heal the state through civic dialogue | WHYY (PBS)
- Why a Children’s Book Is Becoming a Symbol of Resistance in Hungary’s Fight Over LGBT Rights | TIME
- Opinion: Covid has killed off our civil liberties | The Spectator
- Opinion: Defending Amy Coney Barrett, Ted Cruz Highlights the Threats That Democrats Pose to Civil Liberties | Reason
- Self-censorship a growing threat to publishing freedom, warns IPA | The Bookseller
- Why Pink Floyd’s ‘The Wall’ was banned by South Africa during the apartheid | Far Out Magazine
- Ruth Kluger, Author of a Haunting Holocaust Memoir, Dies at 88 | The New York Times
ALA News
- Libraries are invited to apply for the 2021 Will Eisner Graphic Novel Grants for Libraries: Due February 7, 2021
- Quickly Implement a Contactless Service for your Library in this Oct. 27 webinar
- How Employers Can Support Library Workers Who Are Caregivers During COVID-19 webinar
- United for Libraries to coordinate 15th annual National Friends of Libraries Week
- United for Libraries to designate Lloyd Manor a Literary Landmark™ in honor of Jupiter Hammon, first published Black poet
- LHRT seeking submissions for the Phyllis Dain Library History Dissertation: Due January 8, 2021
- Discover Best Practices for Managing Change in Library Technical Services
- ALA to distribute nearly $2 million in grants to help small and rural libraries meet community needs: Due December 2, 2020
- ALA welcomes new register of copyrights Shira Perlmutter
- ALA, libraries nationwide celebrate National Voter Registration Day
- ALA resource site assists libraries with UN Sustainable Development Goals
- ALA awards additional 100 Library Census Equity Fund grants
- Nominees sought for 2021 Coretta Scott King – Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement (Practitioner): Due December 7, 2020
- Celebrate YALSA’s TeenTober initiative with new resources
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