Intellectual Freedom News 12/11/2020
Highlights
- OIF Seeks Information on 2020 Censorship Incidents
- A Constant Goal in a Changing Landscape: IFLA Launches Survey on Intellectual Freedom
Censorship
- Lincoln Parish Library budget meeting turns into heated debate | KTVE -TV (AR/LA) “After discussing many issues like censorship and what is an age appropriate book, the Lincoln Parish Library has voted “yes” to review the unattended child policy that was already in place and “yes” on keeping all the books on the shelves.”
- Lincoln library censorship question affects tax vote | Monroe News-Star (LA)
- Douglas County Library Board hears the results of diversity statement investigation | Sierra Nevada Ally
- Pittsburgh jail lifts controversial ban on book access for inmates | Jurist
Privacy & Cybersecurity
- New York City Council votes to prohibit businesses from using facial recognition without public notice | Venture Beat
- Apple and Google to Stop X-Mode From Collecting Location Data From Users’ Phones | Wall Street Journal
- Security News This Week: The US Used the Patriot Act to Justify Logging Website Visitors | Wired
- How our data encodes systematic racism | MIT Technology Review
- Why Data Privacy Is Crucial to Fighting Disinformation | NextGov
- Imagine a Nutrition Label—for Cybersecurity | Wall Street Journal
- Experts: Evidence to support search warrant on Rebekah Jones’ home flimsy | Florida Today
More privacy news is available at the Choose Privacy Every Day blog.
First Amendment, Free Speech, & Civil Liberties
- A First Amendment Agenda for the New Administration | Knight First Amendment Institute
- Reclaiming Free Speech for Democracy and Human Rights in a Digitally Networked World | New America
- Mr. Biden: How about a new push for First Amendment freedoms? | Freedom Forum
- Free Speech: Illusion vs. Practice | Intellectual Freedom Blog
- Supreme Court Backs Muslim Men in Case on No-Fly List | New York Times
- Supreme Court rejects appeal to limit transgender students | AP News
- Labor Department implements rule allowing employers to discriminate to protect ‘religious liberty’ | Jurist
- Funeral home settles landmark transgender bias case for $250,000 | Westlaw Today
- Selah equality group sues city, alleging sign removal censorship | Yakima Herald (WA)
Copyright
- Proposed U.S. Law Could Slap Twitch Streamers With Felonies For Broadcasting Copyrighted Material | Kotaku
- Update: Neil Young Drops Copyright Infringement Case Against Donald Trump | Digital Music News
- Two Turntables, No Microphone: Using Technical Diagram Is Not Copyright Infringement | The National Law Review
- Copyright and COVID-19: Has WIPO learned nothing from the pandemic? | InfoJustice
Access
- Library Access Beyond English | Intellectual Freedom Blog
- 2020 by the Numbers: Stats on Education, Access, and Reading | School Library Journal
Net Neutrality & Broadband Access
- How Biden’s FCC could fix America’s internet | Vox
- Think Local About the Digital Divide | The New York Times
- The volunteers blanketing cities with wireless internet | MIT Technology Review
- Will Net Neutrality Have Another Chance Under Biden? | Government Technology
Academic Freedom & Campus Speech
- Campus ‘free speech’ bill banning free-speech zones heads to Gov. Mike DeWine | The Columbus Dispatch
- Bresciani promises aggressive, quick response to racist social media posts | KVRR (ND)
- Education Department Blasts ‘Culture of Censorship’ at Colleges, Sets Up Free-Speech Email Hotline to Report Violations | The Wall Street Journal
Social Media
- FTC, 47 states file suits to break up Instagram and WhatsApp from Facebook | Ars Technica
- U.S. and States Say Facebook Illegally Crushed Competition | New York Times
- YouTube bans videos claiming Trump won | Ars Technica
- How should Facebook and Twitter handle Trump after he leaves office? | Brookings
- Opinion: Abdul-Hakim Shabazz column: Social media, censorship and free speech | News and Tribune (IN)
Journalism, Media, & Disinformation
- In 2020, Disinformation Broke The U.S. | Buzzfeed News
- In 2021, it’s time to refocus on health and science misinformation | NiemanLab
International News
- How film festivals can help combat Chinese censorship | The Washington Post
- Turkey’s Government Wants Silicon Valley to Do Its Dirty Work | Lawfare
- Twitter accused of censoring Indian critic of Hindu nationalism | The Guardian
- Sudanese Writer in Exile Knows Life’s ‘Violent Reality,’ and Its Flashes of Joy | Al-Fanar Media
- Drag queens sue Christian leader who called them ‘dangerous role models’ for reading books in full costume to young kids at a library – sparking protest that ended with a tragic suicide | Daily Mail
- Covid used as pretext to curtail civil rights around the world, finds report | The Guardian
- A museum of “banned books” opens in Estonia | Estonian World
- Tech giants call for ‘changes’ to Pakistani censorship laws | Aljazeera
Around the Web
- How Buffy’s “Hush” Speaks to Censorship | Slate
- Since when are the Berenstain Bears evangelical Christians — and do I still want them in our neighborhood library? | The Jewish News of Northern California
- Invisible Chapters: Writing the Black community into the stories of libraries, bookstores and publishing | Cronkite News – Arizona PBS
- ‘There’s a chilling effect’: Google’s firing of leading AI ethicist spurs industry outrage | Protocol
- Happy Birthday, Jason Reynolds! | Intellectual Freedom Blog
- What Trump Taught Us: If You’re Going to Do It, Do It Right (User-Generated Content in Library Discovery Systems) | Intellectual Freedom Blog
- History of censorship in America | Princeton Daily Clarion
- Conservative youth group will offer Burbank students free copies of sidelined books | Los Angeles Times
- Opinion: Covid and the New Age of Censorship | The Wall Street Journal
- Roald Dahl Family Apologizes For Children’s Author’s Anti-Semitism | NPR
- New Book “Irreversible Damage” Is Full of Misinformation | Psychology Today
ALA News
- Final push for COVID relief: ALA issues broad call for library advocates
- Actress, author and activist Natalie Portman to serve as 2021 National Library Week honorary chair
- Rainbow Round Table seeks nominations for 2021 awards recognizing outstanding service to the LGBTQIA+ community
- Registration Opens for 2021 AASL National Conference
- Hicks and Lester Seek 2022-2023 AASL Presidency
ALA Publishing
- A coloring book of quotes for library lovers
- Grounding library work in community engagement
- Examine resources used in the study of philosophy with the most recent guide in the Sudden Selector’s Guide series
Awards and Grants
- YALSA announces 2021 William C. Morris finalists
- Applications open for The Penguin Random House Library Award for Innovation
eCourses and Webinars
- ALA releases free practitioners’ guide, webinar series on adult media literacy education
- Free Webinar from Core on Building Virtual Team Cohesion at your Institution on January 13, 2021
- Positive Interactions: Making the Library a Welcoming and Empowering Place for People with Disabilties
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