Highlights

• ALA partners with Humble Bundle to support ALA and the Freedom to Read Foundation
• Seeking to Award Personal Courage, Dedication, and Contributions to the Defense of Freedom of Expression with $500

Censorship

• LGBTQ+ display dispute in Sullivan County | WBRE/WYOU (PA)
• Baptist Couple Ask Court to Ban Book From Son’s School | U. S. News & World Report
• In Burbank schools, a book-banning debate over how to teach antiracism | Los Angeles Times

Privacy and Cybersecurity

• Electronic privacy rights group praises San Diego surveillance ordinances | ABC 10 San Diego
• Electronic Privacy Rights Coalition Praises San Diego Surveillance Ordinances | KPBS San Diego
• Zoom lied to users about end-to-end encryption for years, FTC says | Ars Technica
• A Nosy Paraprofessional: When An Employee Peeks at Student Internet Searches | Scales On Censorship, School Library Journal

More privacy news is available at the Choose Privacy Every Day blog.

First Amendment, Free Speech, and Civil Liberties

• Democracy Persists | ACLU
• We Cannot Allow Our First Amendment Freedoms to Become Wrongs | Freedom Forum
• Protesters sue over Detroit police response; city countersues | The Detroit News
• Measures against noncitizen voting stir debate | Arkansas Democrat Gazette
• Rights groups ask to join fight against Trump election suit | ABC News
• Opinion: Why Is the Federal Government Promoting Censorship Abroad? | National Review
• New York Civil Liberties Union Reaches Settlement with Rockland County Board of Elections | Rockland County Times

Copyright

• ‘Breakfast At Tiffany’s’ Lawsuit Over Rights To Truman Capote Novella Names Paramount Pictures | Deadline
• Twitch explains confusing copyright crackdown, urges users to delete videos | Ars Technica

Net Neutrality & Broadband Access

• Major tech CEOs discuss section 230 in hearing | Sonoma State Star

Academic Freedom & Campus Speech

• Appeals Court Rules Against University of Texas in Free Speech Lawsuit | The Texan
• FIU Student’s Racist Video Likely Protected by First Amendment | Miami News Times
• The War on “Porn” at Kent State | Intellectual Freedom Blog

Social Media

• No social media is safe: How election misinformation spread on LinkedIn, Pinterest and Nextdoor | The Washington Post
• Trump admin puts a hold on TikTok ban it seems to have forgotten about | Ars Technica
  • US government says it won’t enforce TikTok shutdown after court ruling | The Verge
• TikTok exec says she ‘misspoke’ in hearing about the app censoring Xinjiang content | CNN
• No social media is safe: How election misinformation spread on LinkedIn, Pinterest and Nextdoor | The Washington Post
• Facebook loses final appeal in defamation takedown case, must remove same and similar hate posts globally | TechCrunch
• Twitter may slow down users’ ability to ‘like’ tweets containing misinformation | TechCrunch
• WHO drops censorship of words ‘Taiwan’ and ‘China’ on social media after backlash | The Guardian
• Opinion: Realtors fight hate speech by members on social media | The Orange County Register (CA)

Journalism, Media, & Disinformation

• YouTube defends choice to leave up videos with false election claims | The Verge
• Twitter and Facebook’s election disinformation efforts may be too little, too late | MSNBC

International News

• Malayalam writer S Hareesh JCB Prize for Literature for his controversial novel ‘Meesha’ | Asianet Newsable
• TikTok executive says app used to censor content critical of China | Axios
• Zhang Yimou’s Censored ‘One Second’ to Debut at Government-Run Golden Rooster Festival | Variety
• Civil liberties group asks court to order release of delayed RCMP watchdog report | Canada’s National Observer
• ‘Not shocked or surprised,’ says Arundhati Roy after TN university withdraws her book from syllabus | Scroll.in
• Turkish Government is Tightening Media Censorship, Report Says | BalkanInsight
• Indian move to regulate digital media raises censorship fears | The Guardian
• Move to allow libraries to transmit digital versions of books | The Asahi Shimbun

Around the Web

• Philanthropy’s Techno-Solutionism Problem | Knight Foundation
• Federal Appeals Court Upholds Harvard’s Consideration of Race in Admissions | Education Week
• The Extortion of White Supremacy | Intellectual Freedom Blog
• Happy Birthday, Kurt Vonnegut! | Intellectual Freedom Blog
• Gearing up for the Challenge: Tips for Tackling Censorship | Knowledge Quest
• How a B.C. library’s Drag Queen Story Hour turned into a nationwide fight for intellectual freedom | CBC Radio Canada
• Troubled Blood by J.K. Rowling: More troubling than troubled | Mancunion
• Sixty years of the ‘Lady Chatterley’s Lover’ trial: A court case that defined free expression | Scroll.in
• Blog Post: The tradeoff between civil liberties and public health | American Enterprise Institute
• 26 Beautiful Children’s Books About The Most Impactful LGBTQ+ Icons | Romper
• Can you trust that Amazon review? 42% may be fake, independent monitor says | Chicago Tribune
• What If Racism Were A Crime? | Above the Law
• Joe Rogan and other creators are in trouble if Spotify has censorship power | The Diamondback (University of Maryland)
• Parler Games: Inside the Right’s Favorite ‘Free Speech’ App | Wired
• Report: Boston Public Library Announces Plan to Address Systemic Racism and Inequity | InfoDocket, Library Journal

ALA News

• Public libraries critical to health coverage during public health crisis

ALA Publishing

• New from ACRL – “Student Wellness and Academic Libraries: Case Studies and Activities for Promoting Health and Success”
• Designing and implementing a library risk management program
• Flexible online learning through modular design

Awards and Grants

• ALA Accepting Applications for the Julia J. Brody Scholarship for Public Librarians
• Submit a Nomination for the Prestigious Kilgour Technology Research Award
• LIS Students: Apply for the 2021 Larew Scholarship for Tuition Help

eCourses and Webinars

• RSVP For Free Core Virtual Forum Kick-off Events November 17!
• Create an Oral History Project with this December Core Classroom Session

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