Intellectual Freedom News 2/26/2021
Highlights
- Student Journalists are Essential: Support Student Press Freedom Day
- Censorship of Student Journalists Persists Despite their Essential Role Reporting on COVID, Protests, Racial Justice and Elections, New White Paper Finds | Student Press Law Center
Censorship
- GOP Targets ‘Cancel Culture’ in School Lessons, Political Speech| Pew Stateline
- Bill to punish schools and public libraries for distributing “harmful material” to minors withdrawn by Senate author | The Statehouse File
Privacy & Cybersecurity
- State Privacy Laws Move Forward, but Are They Strong Enough? | Consumer Reports
- Northwestern sued over biometrics privacy in test proctoring software | EDScoop
- Treasury Watchdog Warns of Cellphone-Data Use Without Warrants | The Wall Street Journal.
- It is time for federal chief privacy officers | The Hill
- Clubhouse Chats Are Breached, Raising Concerns Over Security | Bloomberg
- Ambiguity in CPRA imperils content intended for underrepresented communities | IAPP Privacy Perspectives
- Off to the Races: Over 50 Privacy Bills Introduced in the State of New York | The National Law Review
- Your Data Is Way More Exposed Than You Realize |The Wall Street Journal.
- A Clearview AI Patent Application Describes Facial Recognition For Dating, And Identifying Drug Users And Homeless People | BuzzFeed
- Statement of ACLU of Vermont: Border Patrol’s Proposed “Video Surveillance System Project” | The Newport (VT) Daily Express
- “My Head is Sort of Private”: The Twilight Saga as Privacy Parable | Intellectual Freedom Blog
More privacy news is available at the Choose Privacy Every Day blog.
First Amendment, Free Speech, & Civil Liberties
- House passes Equality Act aimed at ending discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity | CNN
- House Passes The Equality Act: Here’s What It Would Do | NPR
- Supreme Court asked to decide if use of racial slur amounts to illegal discrimination | NBC News
- School District Asks U.S. Supreme Court to Decide Scope of Transgender Student Rights | Education Week
- Utah Governor Won’t Sign Bill Targeting Trans Youth: “These Kids Are Just Trying to Stay Alive” | them
- ACLU sues Denver-area subdivision for barring pride flags, social justice signs | Denver Post
- Anti-Picketing Bill Clears Idaho House Committee | Boise State Public Radio (ID)
- Rep. Takano reintroduces Act to outlaw incarceration camps | AsAm News
- Free speech and protest brought us here | Intellectual Freedom Blog
Access
- How School Librarians Adjusted to Remote Learning | EdTech
- Journal Article: “Why Is Access to the Scholarly Journal Literature So Expensive?” | Infodocket, Library Journal
- “Howard University Joins Open Libraries, Embraces Digital Access for Students” | Infodocket, Library Journal
Net Neutrality & Broadband Access
- FCC Pressured To Let Libraries Bridge Broadband Access During The Pandemic | TechCrunch
- Net neutrality law to take effect in California after judge deals blow to telecom industry | Washington Post
- Coronavirus put digital divide in the spotlight, says Raspberry Pi Foundation | Tech Republic
Academic Freedom & Campus Speech
- Freedom of Expression policy up for consideration for Iowa’s state-run universities | KCRG TV (IA)
- Republican senators to Tennessee’s public colleges: Stop athletes from kneeling during national anthem | Tennessean
- Legislation aims to bolster campus first amendment rights | Montana Kanin
- Obscure Musicology Journal Sparks Battles Over Race and Free Speech | The New York Times
- Fired for Tweeting? A Professor Says She Was Cut Loose in Retaliation | The Chronicle of Higher Education
Social Media
- The Government Needs to Find Big Tech a New Business Model | Atlantic
- Facebook Strikes Deal to Restore News Sharing in Australia | The New York Times
- What will changing Section 230 mean for the internet? | The Verge
- This browser extension shows what the Internet would look like without Big Tech | The Verge
- North Dakota House approves bill targeting social media companies for censorship | Grant Forks Herald
- Oklahoma bill that aims to stop censorship on social media sites headed to Senate | Oklahoma News 4, NBC
- Anti-porn activist’s ‘Stop Social Media Censorship Act’ gains traction in Missouri | MDJ Online
- Lawmaker Proposes Penalty for Social Media Censorship | KNEB (NE)
- What Cheap Speech Has Done:(Greater)Equality And Its Discontents | UC Davis Law Review (Forthcoming)
Copyright
- Woody Allen Memoir Publisher Threatens Lawsuit Against HBO Over ‘Allen V. Farrow’ Docuseries | Deadline
- Here’s Why Taylor Swift Is Fighting With A Utah Theme Park | Forbes
Journalism, Media, & Disinformation
- The Librarian War Against QAnon: As “Do the research” becomes a rallying cry for conspiracy theorists, classical information literacy is not enough. | The Atlantic
- Journalists and the looming superstorm of climate disinformation | Columbia Journalism Review
- Democrats attack fake news, and Republicans cry foul | Politico
- How Americans Navigated the News in 2020: A Tumultuous Year in Review | Pew Research Center
- IFLA Responds to Call by UN Special Rapporteur for Inputs About Human Rights Impacts of Measures Against Disinformation | Infodocket, Library Journal
- How memes became a major vehicle for misinformation | Axios
- The Documenters model: How City Bureau makes information accessible to all | Knight Foundation
- Can Libraries be “Antibodies” Against the “Infodemic”? | Intellectual Freedom Blog
International News
- This Week is Freedom to Read Week in Canada! | CBLDF
- In Canada, Did a Comedian’s Joke Go Too Far? | New York Times
- WhatsApp to move ahead with controversial “take it or leave it” privacy policy update despite India’s strong stand against it | Financial Express
- Why plans for vaccine passports are raising civil liberties fears | iNews UK
- YouTube couple fights back against censorship of Bohemian Rhapsody in new challenge | Gay Times
- China reveals extent of censorship with BBC ban: Gordon Chang | ExBulletin
- Civil liberties group unveils bill to replace ‘dangerous’ Coronavirus Act | Law Society Gazette (UK)
- Bitcoin ban, censorship and the papa state | The Times of India
- A French Appeals Court Has Found Jeff Koons Guilty of Copyright Infringement Again—and Hiked Up His Fines | Artnet
Around the Web
- Black History Month: The Tougaloo Nine Try Integrating Local Library Through Read-In | WLBT-TV (MS)
- ‘Nobody Listened to Me’: The Quest to Be MTG | Politico “I’m an Alpharetta resident, and I didn’t want this ‘Drag Queen Story Hour,’” she continued. “And nobody listened to me.”
- How higher education is failing Black Americans in the Midwest | Crain’s Chicago Business
- Libby is stuck between libraries and publishers in the e-book war | Protocol
- How Black cartographers put racism on the map of America, illuminating injustice and reimagining cities | FirstPost
- Lawrence Ferlinghetti, poet and Beat icon, was an American treasure | The Star
- Chicago Lists 40 Statues That Could Be Problematic For Public Review — Including 5 Of Abe Lincoln | Block Club Chicago
- Statue provokes social movement, demand for changes in Puyallup | KIRO 7 (WA)
- Amazon Faces Questions Over Removal of Book by Conservative Author | The Wall Street Journal
- No time to spare: Exploring the middle class time squeeze | Brookings
- Our Authors: Racine author’s first book is on free speech | The Journal, Racine, WI
- Before HBO’s His Dark Materials, the Series Was Banned – Here’s Why | CBR (Comic Book Resources)
- Benton County Sheriff’s Office Holds Book Drive to Restock Jail Library Cart | KUAF 91.3 Public Radio (Fayetteville, AR)
ALA News
- First ever National Library Outreach Day to take place during National Library Week
- New PLA Benchmark Briefings allows for library peer comparison
ALA Publishing
- New from ACRL – “Training Research Consultants: A Guide for Academic Libraries”
- Virtual programs and insights from a time of crisis
- Insight into sound recordkeeping practices
Awards and Grants
- Call for Applications for the NMRT Student Chapter of the Year Award
- Madison Public Library Receives 2021 ALSC/Candlewick Press “Light the Way” Grant
- Phillips receives 2021 Hugh C. Atkinson Memorial Award
- McChesney Named Recipient of ALSC’s 2021 Distinguished Service Award
- 2021 ACRL section award recipients announced
eCourses and Webinars
- Core Webinar: Developing Your Storytelling Skills for Library Assessment
- Core Webinar: Accessibility & Inclusive Design to Enable Success
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