Intellectual Freedom News 10/9/2020
Banned Books Week
- ALA releases list of Top 100 Most Banned and Challenged Books of the decade
- “Freedom to Read” still under attack in Missouri | KTTN/KGOZ Radio
- Considering ‘The Catcher in the Rye’ Challenging the Classics | School Library Journal
Censorship
- US Military Cadets Drop Out of ‘Malcolm X’ Screening Due to Trump Executive Order, William Jackson Harper Says | The Wrap
- Colleges Comb Diversity Programs for Content That Could Trigger Feds | Chronicle of Higher Education
- Diversity Work, Interrupted | Inside Higher Ed
- Toni Morrison book ban lifted by Colton school board | Daily Bulletin (CA)
Privacy and Cybersecurity
- The IRS Is Being Investigated for Using Location Data Without a Warrant | Vice
- Data and Democracy : A symposium considering how big data is changing our system of self-government | Knight First Amendment Institute
- Privacy Book Club: Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality by Cathy O’Neil | Future of Privacy Forum
More privacy news is available at the Choose Privacy Every Day blog.
First Amendment, Free Speech, and Civil Liberties
- Free to State: The New Free Speech (Interview)| The Washington Post
- Judge: Rhode Island vanity plate law likely violates First Amendment | The Boston Globe
- Floyd Abrams: The First Amendment is the soul of our democracy | The Dallas Morning News
- Voting is easier in Virginia now, unless you have a felony conviction | The Center for Public Integrity
- Conservative Supreme Court Justices Slam Ruling Legalizing Same-Sex Marriage | Voice of America
- ‘Anti-Vaxx’ Movement Shifts Focus to Civil Liberties | WebMD
- Vaccine Opposition Online Uniting Around ‘Civil Liberties’ Argument | ScienceBlog.com
- Federal judge rules First Amendment doesn’t protect Connecticut man arrested with sign warning of ‘Cops Ahead’ | The Hartford Courant (CT)
- ACLU of Iowa files lawsuit over statehouse ban | KCCI/CBS (Des Moines)
- ACLU Sues Over State Suspending Licenses Due to Unpaid Fines | U.S. News & World Report
Access
- Mellon Grant Helps UT Austin Scholars Preserve and Promote Audiovisual Heritage | InfoDocket/Library Journal
Net Neutrality & Broadband Access
- AT&T kills DSL, leaves tens of millions of homes without fiber Internet | ARS Technica
- Net neutrality: FCC not to address issues raised by US appeals court | Telecom Lead
Academic Freedom & Campus Speech
- University Seeks State AG’s Advice on Professor’s Facebook Post | Inside Higher Ed
- U.S. Senate Candidate Doug Collins Talks Campus Censorship at College Republicans Event | The Emory Wheel (GA)
- Surprising percentage of college students find violent censorship ‘acceptable’ to some degree | Fox News
- Opinion: Reassessing censorship | The Campus (PA)
Social Media
- House Lawmakers Condemn Big Tech’s ‘Monopoly Power’ and Urge Their Breakups | New York Times
- Facebook bans QAnon across its platforms | NBC News
- Facebook broadens crackdown on QAnon | Politico
- As QAnon grew, Facebook and Twitter missed years of warning signs about the conspiracy theory’s violent nature | The Washington Post
- Facebook and Twitter said they would crack down on QAnon, but the delusion seems unstoppable | Vox
- Twitter banished the worst QAnon accounts. But more than 93,000 remain on the site, research shows | The Washington Post
- A Facebook Ban Won’t Stop QAnon | Wired
- Facebook bans marketing firm running ‘troll farm’ for pro-Trump youth group | The Washington Post
- Facebook Keeps Data Secret, Letting Conservative Bias Claims Persist | NPR
- President Trump Calls For Section 230 Repeal As Facebook Yanks, Twitter Tags His COVID Posts | Deadline
- Report: A dispute resolution program for social media companies | Brookings
- “Defending Scoundrels”: 4 Moral Arguments for 4chan | Intellectual Freedom Blog
Journalism, Media, & Disinformation
- Media 2070: An Invitation to Dream Up Media Reparations | Media 2070
- Pro-Trump Appointees Investigate VOA White House Reporter For Anti-Trump Bias | NPR
- A new study shows how Trump and the RNC duped traditional media into covering mail-in voter fraud | NeimanLab
- Mail-In Voter Fraud: Anatomy of a Disinformation Campaign | Berkman Klein Center
- Thank you for posting: Smoking’s lessons for regulating social media | MIT Technology Review
- Protecting the Vote: How Internet Platforms Are Addressing Election and Voter Suppression-Related Misinformation and Disinformation | New America
- QAnon shows that the age of alternative facts will not end with Trump | Columbia Journalism Review
Copyright
International News
- Dan Levy Says Comedy Central India Censoring Of Same-Sex Kiss On ‘Schitt’s Creek’ “Harmful” To Inclusivity | Deadline
- Genshin Impact players say Chinese game censors ‘Taiwan’ and ‘Hong Kong’ chat | The Guardian
- Pakistan Court to Hear Petition for Banning Nawaz Sharif’s ‘Hate Speech’ on Monday | News18 India
- Belarus looks to decentralized tech to combat censorship | Reclaim the Net
- User safety or censorship? Turkey targets social media platforms | Deutsche Welle (DW)
Around the Web
- Iowa City Public Library to focus on DEI, alternatives to police intervention in new strategic plan | The Daily Iowan
- Reading a great book relief from isolation | Tahlequah Daily Press (OK)
- The hounding of a Scottish poet by trans activists | The Spectator
- British Censorship Board Watched Hours Of Paint Drying | NPR
- Opinion: Free Speech Guaranteed — Except When You Disagree with Us | Bacon’s Rebellion (VA)
- ACLU Hero Ira Glasser: How Freedom of Speech Protects You from Rulers Like Trump | The Daily Beast
- Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret is 50 (and still fabulous) | Entertainment Weekly
- Protesters hit by cars recently highlight a dangerous far-right trend in America |NBC News
- Joe Rogan Responds to Talk of Spotify Censoring His Podcast | Heavy
- Come Out With Pride reinvents festivities with virtual party, vehicle procession | Orlando Sentinel
- Rose-tinted glasses hamper real, critical learning | Intellectual Freedom Blog
- Library of Congress Acquires Archives of the National Woman’s Party | The New York Times
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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