Intellectual Freedom News 11/13/2020
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
- 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
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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