Intellectual Freedom News 10/30/2020
Highlights
- ALA Statement on Executive Order on Combating Race and Sex Stereotyping; “The American Library Association opposes the Executive Order on Combating Race and Sex Stereotyping and all other actions that result in the curtailment of free expression and social justice, and pledges to continue to pursue social justice and further our work against systems of oppression.”
- Call for Intellectual Freedom Award Nominations!
- ALA decries latest FCC failure on net neutrality
Censorship
- Parents sue NC charter school, calling ‘Poet X’ novel an ‘assault’ on Christianity | The Charlotte Observer
- Federal lawsuit filed over controversial book offered to Lake Norman Charter students | WSOC TV 9 Charlotte
- Injustice Watch Mailed Its Judicial Election Guide To 1,000 Detainees At Cook County Jail. They Never Received Them | Block Club Chicago
Privacy and Cybersecurity
- Police are using facial recognition for minor crimes because they can | Cnet
- Activists Turn Facial Recognition Tools Against the Police | The New York Times
- Twitter Surveillance Startup Targets Communities of Color for Police | The Intercept
- Key findings about Americans’ views on COVID-19 contact tracing | Pew Research Center
- Surveillance to body cams: Tech under the spotlight in U.S election | Reuters
More privacy news is available at the Choose Privacy Every Day blog.
First Amendment, Free Speech, and Civil Liberties
- The complex and dynamic legal landscape of LGBTQ student rights | Brookings
- New Book Examines How The 1st Amendment Sits At The Forefront In An Election Year | NPR
- What Kind of First Amendment Do We Want? | Slate
- School employee, asked to take Black Lives Matter mask off, wants apology | ABC News, Salt Lake City
- Nearly 1,000 instances of police brutality recorded in US anti-racism protests | The Guardian
Copyright
- Netflix Will See More Copyright Litigation After Eleventh Circuit Ruling | Law.com
- Cybercriminals Are Using Fake Copyright Infringement Notices to Bypass 2FA on Facebook | Digital Information World
- The music industry has taken another step toward a legal fight with Twitch | The Verge
- Defending Fair Use in the Omegaverse | Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)
- Fan Artists Fear Retaliation over Warner Bros. Copyright Claims | MuggleNet
Net Neutrality & Broadband Access
- Library Pledge for Digital Inclusion | International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA)
- Report: “FCC Reaffirms Order Rolling Back Net Neutrality Regulations” | InfoDocket/Library Journal
- In Forced Net Neutrality Review, FCC Finds Itself Agreeable | Android Headlines
- Pai’s FCC squeezes in one more vote against net neutrality before election | Ars Technica
- Monopolistic U.S. ISPs Take Full Advantage Of The Covid Crisis | Techdirt
Academic Freedom & Campus Speech
- Rejection of anti-abortion student group labeled ‘hate group’ reversed at University of Northern Iowa | The Gazette
- Transcript: Free to State: The New Free Speech | The Washington Post
- A Tale of Two Chicagos | RealClearEducation
Social Media
- Facebook Manipulated the News You See to Appease Republicans, Insiders Say | Mother Jones
- Social Censorship: Should Social Media’s Policy Be Free Speech? | Forbes
- Mark Zuckerberg Said Facebook Will Have Fewer Bans After The Election | Buzz Feed News
- AP Explains: The rule that made the modern internet | Star Tribune (Minneapolis)
- Despite cries of censorship, conservatives dominate social media | Politico
- Facebook, NYU researchers tussle over political ads on the social network | Cnet
- A Bilingual Tool That Fights Misinformation On WhatsApp | NPR
- Social Media and Democracy: The State of the Field, Prospects for Reform | Cambridge University Press (Open Access e-book) (PDF)
- The weirdly specific filters campaigns are using to micro-target you | MIT Technology Review
- Instagram censored one of these photos but not the other. We must ask why | The Guardian
- Days Before Election, Tech CEOs Defend Themselves From GOP Accusations Of Censorship | NPR
- At Hearing, Republicans Accuse Zuckerberg and Dorsey of Censorship | The New York Times
- U.S. Has Authority to Ban TikTok, Government Lawyers Say | The Wall Street Journal
- Glenn Greenwald leaves The Intercept, claiming he was ‘censored’ over an article he wrote on Joe Biden | The Chicago Tribune
Journalism, Media, & Disinformation
- U.S. Agency Targets Its Own Journalists’ Independence | NPR
- How America Escapes Its Conspiracy-Theory Crisis | The New Yorker
- Most U.S. Voters See Misinformation Online and Many Believe It | BNN Bloomberg
- “Fake News”: Preventing Falsehoods in Candidate Statements in Ballot Pamphlets | Volokh Conspiracy
- Mail-In Voter Fraud: Anatomy of a Disinformation Campaign | Berkman Klein Center
- The fight against fake news and electoral disinformation | Oxford University Press Blog
- Americans blame unfair news coverage on media outlets, not the journalists who work for them | Pew Research Center
- Media, Democracy and the Emerging Electorate of Young Voters | Knight Foundation
- Blocking content on social media may actually draw more attention to it | Deseret News
- ‘Tsunamis of Misinformation’ Overwhelm Local Election Officials | The New York Times
International News
- Putin announces support for ban on comparing USSR & Hitler’s Germany after book claims ‘Soviets were worse than Nazis’ | RT Question More
- Japanese Hentai Is Now Banned in Australia | Vice
- Mufti Of Russia’s Mordovia Region Fined For Distributing ‘Extremist’ Books | Radio Free Europe
- Al-Manassa editor Nora Younis on censorship in Egypt | Committee to Protect Journalists
- Tech asks EU for hate-speech moderation protection | Light Reading
- DAN WOOTTON: Book bans and border control: The absurdity of new Covid rules is clear to see | The Sun (London)
- Growing fear of speaking out: Survey finds Indonesia’s civil liberties under threat | The Jakarta Post
Around the Web
- Opinion: Trump’s newest executive order could prove one of his most insidious | The Washington Post
- Opinion: Peaceful assembly can’t happen without the option of gun-free events | The Washington Post
- To Learn the Truth, Read My Wikipedia Entry on Sichuan Peppers | The New York Times
- Data Disappeared | Huffpost Highline
- An Auction to Defend Art | National Coalition Against Censorship
- Librarian, Read Thyself | The Rambling
- Apple, Google and a Deal That Controls the Internet | The New York Times
- Miles Taylor, a Former Homeland Security Official, Reveals He Was ‘Anonymous’ | The New York Times
- Shelter in Headspace: Survival Tips for the Information War | Intellectual Freedom Blog
- Maryland Libraries’ Antiracism Programming Goes Global | Programs that Pop | Library Journal
- Zoom Faces More Allegations of Censorship | Insider Higher Ed
ALA News
- Aldrich, Garcia, Pelayo-Lozada, seek 2022-23 ALA presidency
- ALA Nominating Committee Councilors-at-Large candidates announced
ALA Publishing
Awards and Grants
- National Friends of Libraries Week wraps up 15th annual celebration; Award applications due Dec. 4
- I Love My Librarian Award nominations will close Nov. 9
eCourses and Webinars
- Core Webinar Explores Information Technology Fluency and Poster Design
- United for Libraries Past President Peter Pearson to speak on California Public Library Advocates webinar Nov. 12
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