Intellectual Freedom News 10/2/2020
Banned Books Week
- ALA releases list of Top 100 Most Banned and Challenged Books of the decade
- LGBTQ themes found in half of the past decade’s 20 most-banned books | NBC News
- Finding Freedom in Reading with Banned Books Week | The Corvallis Advocate (OR)
- Dangerous material; celebrating banned books | Smoky Mountain News
- Middle School Librarian Creates Banned Books Week Bitmoji Library | School Library Journal
- Perspective: For Banned Books Week, I read the country’s 10 most challenged books. The gay penguins did not corrupt me | The Washington Post
- City entities promote anti-censorship series | Daily American (PA)
- Banned Books Week: Readers aspire to challenge censorship through literature | The Kansas State Collegian
- Watch Gene Luen Yang in Conversation with the National Council of Teachers of English | CBLDF
- OIF Releases Annual Report on Challenges to Intellectual Freedom | CBLDF
Censorship
- Muscatine Community College cans controversial play based on ‘Peanuts’ | Dispatch-Argus (IA)
- Trump ban of ‘un-American’ diversity training roils corporate America | USA Today
- Judge blocks TikTok ban in second ruling against Trump’s efforts to curb popular Chinese services | The Washington Post
- Lawsuit filed against Henderson Co. [KY] Detention Center, alleges censorship claims | WFIE 14 News (IN)
- Why an L.A.-area school district banned, then quietly reinstated Toni Morrison’s ‘The Bluest Eye’ | The LA Times (CA)
- Judge says government’s suit over Bolton book can proceed | ABC News
- Beyond Magenta: When Gatekeeping Becomes Censorship | BookRiot
Privacy and Cybersecurity
- What Does Privacy Really Mean Under Surveillance Capitalism? | Literary Hub
- Hacker Releases Information on Las Vegas-Area Students After Officials Don’t Pay Ransom | The Wall Street Journal
- California’s New Privacy Rights Are Tough to Use, Consumer Reports Study Finds | Consumer Reports
- Furloughed Rutgers employees’ identities stolen | My Central Jersey
- How It Feels When Software Watches You Take Tests | The New York Times
- Report: Despite more cyberthreats during COVID-19, most businesses are confident about cybersecurity | Tech Republic
More privacy news is available at the Choose Privacy Every Day blog.
First Amendment, Free Speech, and Civil Liberties
- Opinion: Trump’s Assault on Twitter is an attack on the First Amendment | The Washington Post
- How today’s tech disputes tee up tomorrow’s First Amendment fights | National Journal
- Journalists condemn attack on 1st Amendment in Burlington | WCAX-TV 30 (VT)
- First Amendment Rights: Who Harasses Kids and What Political Agenda Makes that OK? | Ark Valley Voice (CO)
- izzit.org Expands U.S. Constitution Education Library with First Amendment | GlobeNewswire
- Small Town Selectboards Grapple With Racism, Free Speech | Vermont Public Radio (VPR)
- CBP Wants to Destroy Records of Misconduct. We Can’t Let Them. | ACLU
- Court Nominee Expressed Doubt That Title IX Protects Transgender Students | Education Week/School Law
- An Exercise in Doublespeak: Pompeo’s Flawed “Unalienable Rights” Commission | Just Security
Access
- SPARC: “Pandemic Amplifies Trouble with Restrictive Licensing and E-Textbooks” | InfoDocket/Library Journal
- New From IMLS: “Rural Libraries in America: An Infographic Overview” | InfoDocket/Library Journal
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Announces Open Access Publishing Policy & Joins Coalition S | InfoDocket/Library Journal
- New Resource: The Open Access Books Toolkit From OAPEN Now Available | InfoDocket/Library Journal
- Society of American Archivists (SAA) Council Approves Guidelines on Access to Research Materials | InfoDocket/Library Journal
- Our Process for Curbside Pickup | Knowledge Quest
Net Neutrality & Broadband Access
- AT&T took $283 million but didn’t deploy required broadband, Mississippi says | Ars Technica
- Broad Coalition Urges Court Not to Block California’s Net Neutrality Law | Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)
- Biggest names in net neutrality join fight to save California law | Benton Institute for Broadband & Society
- FCC Drops Appeal, Will Provide Data About Net Neutrality Commenters To New York Times | Digital Daily News
- The EU Makes It Clear That ‘Zero Rating’ Violates Net Neutrality | Techdirt
Academic Freedom & Campus Speech
- 3 Universities Face U.S. Inquiries Into Free-Speech Controversies | The Chronicle of Higher Education
- How a Fight Over a Black Lives Matter Statement Transformed an Academic Association | The Chronicle of Higher Education
- Standing Up for Professors | Inside Higher Ed
- 2020 College Free Speech Rankings |Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)
Fake News, Free Press, Social Media
- Trump-Backed Rules for Online Speech: No to Porn, Yes to Election Disinformation and Hate Speech | Slate
- Time to ratchet up the fight against misinformation in Spanish. Take a look at this solution. | Poynter
- US Senate to subpoena Facebook, Google, Twitter CEOs over censorship issues | Apple Insider
- Former Facebook manager: “We took a page from Big Tobacco’s playbook” | Ars Technica
- Judge grants TikTok a reprieve, ban will not go into effect tonight [Updated] | Ars Technica
- Protecting the Vote: How Internet Platforms Are Addressing Election and Voter Suppression-Related Misinformation and Disinformation | Open Technology Institute
- Many Americans Get News on YouTube, Where News Organizations and Independent Producers Thrive Side by Side | Pew Research Center
- Vaccine opposition online uniting around ‘civil liberties’ argument | American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
- National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) Releases Social Media Strategy FY 2021-2025 | InfoDocket/Library Journal
- Not Real News: An Associated Press Roundup of Untrue Stories Shared Widely on Social Media This Week | InfoDocket/Library Journal
- The Justice Department hypes phantom censorship with an attack on Internet platforms’ core protection | The Washington Post
Copyright
International News
- Navigating Literary Censorship—and Worse—in Iran | Literary Hub
- Instruction Under Surveillance: Chinese students stuck overseas bring censorship concerns into newly global online classrooms | The Chronicle of Higher Education
- Thirty per cent of Canadians are concerned about political censorship online, poll reveals | CTV News
- Duterte Lashes Out at Facebook After It Takes Down Fake Accounts | The New York Times
- Ontario police used COVID-19 database illegally: Civil rights group | Toronto Sun
- ‘Are you black or are you dirty?’ Italy’s racist school books | Wanted in Rome
- Report: “Open Access: An Analysis of Publisher Copyright and Licensing Policies in Europe, 2020” | InfoDocket/Library Journal
- Civil-liberties groups caution against ‘extreme’ COVID measures in Quebec | iPolitics
Around the Web
- Critical race theory, and Trump’s war on it, explained | Vox
- The U.S. reckoning on race, seen through other nations’ eyes | Star Tribune (MN)
- Ohio Library Board Reverses Decision to End ALA Membership for ‘Leaning to the Left’ | Publishers Weekly
- What Is ALEC? Learn About the Organization Writing Your State Laws | Teen Vogue
- The Library as Ballot Box | American Libraries
- USPS workers quietly resist DeJoy’s changes with eye on election| The Washington Post
- How J.K. Rowling’s New Book Became The Most Controversial Novel Of The Year | Bustle
- Certain ‘Aqua Teen Hunger Force,’ ‘The Boondocks’ Episodes Retired Due to ‘Cultural Sensitivities’ | Variety
- Censorship in the time of war: How the DoD controlled information | The Mighty
- Nearly Half of Citizens Believe There is Online Censorship | Infosecurity
- Reddit Bots Are Hunting Down Racists, One Post at a Time | Wired
- How Censorship Created Frankenstein’s Most Iconic Line | Screen Rant
- A neighbor’s book club is multiplying to confront social issues across Dallas | Advocate (TX)
- Nicola and David Yoon To Launch YA Romance Imprint By and About People of Color | School Library Journal
ALA News
- Study finds journaling strengthens school librarian practice
- Booklist announces new Publications Advisory Board
- ACRL 2021 Conference going virtual due to COVID-19
- 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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