Intellectual Freedom News 10/23/2020
Censorship
- ‘I think it’s a fight worth having’: Concerned parents oppose controversial book at Lake Norman Charter School | WCNC (Charlotte)
- Domestic Violence Programs That Support Black Lives Matter Lose Government Funding, Police Cooperation | HuffPost
- Hulu Shushes “Sunny” | Intellectual Freedom Blog
- Hamilton starts new book-vetting process after parent complaints | Holland Sentinel
Privacy and Cybersecurity
- The Police Can Probably Break Into Your Phone | The New York Times
- CBP Refuses to Tell Congress How it is Tracking Americans Without a Warrant | Vice
- Adblockers installed 300,000 times are malicious and should be removed now | Ars Technica
- How a Protest at the U. of Miami Reignited the Student-Surveillance Debate | Chronicle of Higher Education
- Federal Agencies Warn of Online Predators’ Access to Children During Pandemic | Data Privacy + Security Insider
More privacy news is available at the Choose Privacy Every Day blog.
First Amendment, Free Speech, and Civil Liberties
- Former Alachua County Library employee sues after demotion due to anti-‘Black Lives Matter’ Facebook post | WCJB (Gainsville, FL)
- Wilmette Library Trustee, Lobbyist Sues City Over Ban on Lobbying by Elected Officials | WTTW (Chicago)
- Constitutional lawyers publish children’s book on First Amendment | Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press
- Is the Traditional ACLU View of Free Speech Still Viable? Ira Glasser Speaks Out. | The Intercept
- “Mighty Ira:” A Documentary About The Man Who Defined American Civil Liberties | GBH/NPR (Boston)
- The Supreme Court Case That Could Jeopardize LGBTQ Rights | ACLU
- There’s No Constitutional Right to Civics Education, a Federal Judge Reluctantly Concludes | Education Week
Copyright
Net Neutrality & Broadband Access
- Broadband Internet Promises Are Left Unfulfilled in Many Rural Areas | The Wall Street Journal
- USDA invests $20M in broadband access for New Mexico | KRQE
Academic Freedom & Campus Speech
- Opinion: Right-Wing Trolls Attacked Me. My Administration Buckled | Chronicle of Higher Education
Social Media
- TikTok Cracks Down on QAnon and Hate Speech | New York Times
- TikTok’s QAnon ban has been ‘buggy’ | TechCrunch
- FCC Chair Ajit Pai says new rules are coming for Section 230 | Protocol
- Republicans on Senate panel subpoena Facebook, Twitter CEOs | The Hill
- F.T.C. Decision on Pursuing Facebook Antitrust Case Is Said to Be Near | The New York Times
- Censorship and Getting Social Media Right | The Wall Street Journal
- Why Social Media Is So Good at Polarizing Us | The Wall Street Journal
- With Zuck’s Blessing, Facebook Quietly Stymied Traffic to Left-Leaning News Outlets | Gizmodo
- Social media censorship threatens to widen rift in U.S. | Boston Herald
- Social media’s struggle with self-censorship | The Economist
- Is Facebook too big to know? The Markup has a plan (and a browser) to wrap its arms around it | Neiman Lab
- The Refusal Conference | The Algorithmic Fairness and Opacity Group, UC Berkeley
- Opinion: Conservatives must fight Big Tech or lose | Jewish News Syndicate
Journalism, Media, & Disinformation
- Prism, a news site led by women of color, centers the voices of marginalized people in its reporting | Nieman Journalism Lab
- As Local News Dies, a Pay-for-Play Network Rises in Its Place | The New York Times
- Clapper: America is a ‘ripe target’ for disinformation | CNN
- 50 former intelligence officials warn NY Post story sounds like Russian disinformation | The Hill
- False Political News in Spanish Pits Latino Voters Against Black Lives Matter | The New York Times
- Opinion | Trump’s continuing vandalism of the Voice of America | The Washington Post
- You Are Here: A Field Guide for Navigating Polarized Speech, Conspiracy Theories, and Our Polluted Media Landscape | MIT Press (Open Access e-book)
International News
- Thailand calls on telcos and ISPs to censor information about pro-democracy protests | The Register
- UK says Russia was preparing cyber-attacks against the Tokyo Olympics | ZDNet
- Thai authorities seek to censor coverage of student protests | ABC News
- Row in Hungary around children’s book fuels fears of rising homophobia | The Jakarta Post
- Last of Communist Liam O’Flaherty’s banned novels sees the light in Ireland | People’s World
- Medvedchuk vs Stus case. How come books are now being banned in Ukraine | Unian
Around the Web
- Banned Books Week: a monument of free expression | Technician
- Lady Chatterley’s Lover – the book with 13 sex scenes that stunned 1960s Britain | The Mirror
- Why denouncing white supremacy creates safety, security, and racial equity | Brookings
- Texas social workers can now turn away LGBTQ, disabled clients | NBC News
- Latinx Heritage Month features Drag Queen Story Hour as final event | The Mesa Press (San Diego)
- Ransomware gang donates part of ransom demands to charity organizations | ZDNet
- Why the US government is suing Google | Vox
- A Black, gay dad never saw his family reflected in children’s story books – so he wrote his own | PinkNews
- Is the Truth Liberal? | Intellectual Freedom Blog
ALA News
ALA Publishing
- Impactful community-based literacy projects
- ACRL releases “Fostering Change: A Team-Based Guide”
- SAA selects Millar’s book “A Matter of Facts” for One Book, One Profession 2020/2021
- Essential textbooks and course resources spotlighted in new catalog from ALA Editions | ALA Neal-Schuman
Awards and Grants
- Dickerson, Lehtonen, Schulz, Stovall, Takahashi, selected for ALSC Equity Fellowship
- ALA, Capital One announce 20 rural libraries selected for Community Connect: Digital Access at Home grants
- Mesquite Independent School District named National School Library of the Year
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