Intellectual Freedom News 11/22/2024
Highlights
- Local librarian discusses impact of book censorship | Tucson.com (AZ)
- DAYLO honored with SCLA Intellectual Freedom Award | Your Island News (SC)
- IFLA Publishes “Championing Intellectual Freedom – Structuring and Focusing Library Efforts” Report | Library Journal
Censorship
- ‘Heartstopper’ Bellaire library board plans hearing on LGBTQ-themed books | Record-Eagle (MI)
- Court filing: Crawford County general fund too low to pay library lawsuit legal fees | Arkansas Democrat Gazette (AR)
- Attendees debate appropriateness of novel during Centralia School Board meeting | Chronicle (WA)
- Centralia School Board to consider new policy for approving course material | Chronicle (WA)
- School District Cancels High School Play After Obscenity Complaints | OnStage Blog (CA)
- List of nearly 400 purged library books is circulating among Tennessee school districts | Chalkbeat (TN)
- CCSD revising book review policy | Las Vegas Sun (NV)
- “All About Penises” book display at Ravena Library sparks outrage amongst parents | CBS6Albany (NY)
- Parents push Northern Michigan library to restrict book over ‘sexual content’ | MLive (MI)
- ‘Laramie Project’ play postponement draws censorship concerns from Phoenix students | FOX10 (AZ)
- ‘Extremists’: Alabama GOP chair, anti-censorship group blast each other over libraries | AL.com (AL)
- Book ban talk for school board | Republic-Times (IL)
- Duval School Board’s rightward turn on display in sex ed, book discussions | Jax Today (FL)
- “BookLooks” is for Book Haters | TapInto Phillipsburg (NJ)
- Utah just banned a 14th book from public schools. Here’s what it’s about. | Salt Lake Tribune (UT)
- List of Nearly 400 Purged Books Circulating Among TN School Districts | Memphis Flyer (TN)
- School district bans 400 books in response to anti-LGBTQ state law | LGBTQ Nation (TN)
- Budget cuts and ‘gay penguins’: Library debate fires up Bradford County Commissioners meeting | WVIA (PA)
- Huntsville-Madison County Public Library moves books out of children’s section | WAAY (AL)
- Community protests ignite heated debate over book bans at Albuquerque school board meeting | KRQE (NM)
- Library Review Committee wraps up evaluation of controversial high school titles | Fluvanna Review (VA)
- Controversy Over LBGT Flyer at Nampa Library Grows | Idaho Dispatch (ID)
Privacy & Cybersecurity
- Library of Congress emails hacked by ‘adversary’ | NBC4Washington (D.C.)
- Preparing for government surveillance in Trump 2.0 | Axios
- Inside Clear’s ambitions to manage your identity beyond the airport | MIT Technology Review
- Roblox is the latest target of state kids online safety bills | Verge
First Amendment & Civil Rights
- LGBTQ Community Concerned About Upcoming Event at Seattle Public Library | South Seattle Emerald (WA)
- Texas Education Board Backs Curriculum With Lessons Drawn From Bible | New York Times (TX)
- Pa. DOE recinds cultural, inclusive guidelines in lawsuit settlement | WKBN (PA)
- Trump Confirms Plans to Use the Military to Assist in Mass Deportations | New York Times
- ACLU files lawsuit seeking details on Trump’s plan for mass deportation | Washington Post
- Florida Fights Back Against Book Ban Lawsuit, Claims “Government Speech” Exemption | Tampa Free Press (FL)
- Johnson Says He Will Bar Transgender Women From Capitol Bathrooms | New York Times (D.C.)
- Trump’s FCC Pick Wants to Be the Speech Police. That’s Not His Job | WIRED
Academic Freedom & Student Speech
- This major Texas university is allegedly banning the use of LGBTQ+ language | Into (TX)
- Trump likely to use antisemitism claims to launch crackdown on US universities | Guardian
- Judith Butler talks academic freedom and democracy | Michigan Daily
- What Is Behind FIRE’s Attacks on AAUP? | Inside Higher Ed
- In Defense of FIRE | Inside Higher Ed
- Conservative professors and students are suing California’s community colleges, and winning | CalMatters (CA)
Legislation
- Statewide legislation to address book challenges while protecting First Amendment | WWMT (MI)
- Texas Bill Takes Aim at Online Speech About Abortion Pills | Reason (TX)
- House Republicans Target McBride With Capitol Bathroom Bill | New York Times
State & Local Governance
Net Neutrality & Broadband Access
- Net Neutrality Policy Could Shift Again With Trump’s New FCC Chair | CNET
- Analyst: Sixth Circuit Should Hit Pause on Net Neutrality Case | BroadbandBreakfast
- Trump picks Big Tech critic who wrote ‘Project 2025’ chapter to lead FCC | Al Jazeera
Journalism & Media
- The First Amendment Will Suffer Under Trump | Nation
- Trump Resumes His Endless War Against the First Amendment | New Republic
Social Media
- America’s News Influencers | Pew Research Center
- Why Free Press Is Leaving Twitter | Free Press
- Liberals Are Left Out in the Cold as Social Media Veers Right | New York Times
- The rise of Bluesky, and the splintering of social | MIT Technology Review
- The blurred line between X and the Trump administration | MSNBC
- Brendan Carr wants to focus on 3 things – including a TikTok ban – as Trump’s FCC chair | USA Today
Disinformation & Media Literacy
- How rumors and lies hurt people trying to recover from disasters like Helene | USA Today
- How Tulsi Gabbard Became a Favorite of Russia’s State Media | New York Times
- Voting may be over, but this election worker is still debunking disinformation | 19th
- Dr. Oz, Tapped to Run Medicare, Has a Record of Promoting Health Misinformation | New York Times
- A former staffer exposes how Russia’s disinformation machine worked in Central African Republic | AP
International
- End of an affair: news media quit X over ‘disinformation’ | ENCA
- EU disease agency may quit Musk’s X over disinformation | E&E News/Politico
- New Zealand Veers Sharply Right, Leaving Jacinda Ardern’s Era Behind | New York Times (New Zealand)
- Disinformation and deepfakes played a part in the US election. Australia should expect the same | Conversation (Australia)
- From the UK to Germany to Singapore: Police are watching what you post | FIRE
- China’s Surveillance State Is Selling Citizen Data as a Side Hustle | WIRED (China)
Around the Web
- Trump’s promises to conservatives raise fears of more book bans in U.S. | Los Angeles Times
- Hector receives ArLA’s Intellectual Freedom Award | Sentinel-Record
- What does Trump’s Agenda47 say about education? What to know after Linda McMahon’s selection | USA Today
- Trump Chooses Longtime Ally Linda McMahon to Run Education Dept. | New York Times
- It’s famous and among the most-removed books in Florida school districts. What is it? | Tallahassee Democrat
- Remembering queer lives lost to hate | Advocate
- Trump taps Russ Vought, one of the authors of Project 2025, to lead budget office again | CBS News
- Shouting Racial Slurs, Neo-Nazi Marchers Shock Ohio’s Capital | New York Times
- U.S. Proposes Breakup of Google to Fix Search Monopoly | New York Times
- What Trump’s pledge to close Dept. of Education means for students, GOP-led states like Texas | Texas Public Radio
- ‘Get Somebody Else to Do It’: Trump Resistance Encounters Fatigue | New York Times
- I’m A Queer School Librarian, And Book Bans Enrage Me — ‘My Straight Students Feel Unsafe Around A Gay Self-Help Book’ | Your Tango
- Why Trump Has Such an Unusual Hold on Our Cultural Politics | New York Times
- Trump vowed to push schools to the right on gender and race. Now he can. | Washington Post
- Axios Explains: “Woke” and the backlash to the term | Axios
- What Democrats Are Getting Wrong About Transgender Rights | New York Times
- Armstrong: A Colorado librarian weighs in on book bans | Complete Colorado
- Book bans and you: How censorship will influence our future | A&T Register
- Book Bans Harm Kids | Scientific American
- The Greatest Cancel Culture Warrior in America Is Donald Trump | New York Times
- Oklahoma initiative kicks off by training librarians to help with telehealth visits | Oklahoman
- Percival Everett, Author of ‘James,’ Wins National Book Award for Fiction | New York Times
- Post election, educators anticipate classroom censorship | Public News Service
- Conservative Placentia-Yorba Linda trustees safeguard superintendent after elections | Daily Pilot
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