Intellectual Freedom News 3/13/20
Highlights
- APALA condemns rise in xenophobia and racism due to the novel coronavirus outbreak
- ALA Statement on COVID-19 | American Libraries
- Libraries Respond: Combating Xenophobia and Fake News in light of COVID-19 | American Library Association
- Green-Dots Mean Go — How One Librarian Protects Her Students’ Privacy | Intellectual Freedom Blog
- Pandemic Preparedness: Resources for Libraries | American Library Association
Censorship
- Censoring Anne Frank: how her famous diary has been edited through history | History Extra
- In a plan to bring yoga to Alabama schools, Stretching is allowed. ‘Namaste’ isn’t. | New York Times
- South Carolina Court Strikes Outdated Anti-LGBTQ Curriculum Law as Unconstitutional | Lambda Legal Defense Fund
- Hachette says it won’t publish Woody Allen’s book | New York Times
- MO Bill Proposes Parental Review Board for “Age-Inappropriate” Material, Legal Penalties for Noncompliance | Library Journal
- Will library bill lead to censorship? | Tullahoma News (TN)
Privacy and Cybersecurity
- On balancing personal privacy with public interest | IAPP Privacy Advisor
- House Passes Bill Preserving F.B.I. Surveillance Powers | The New York Times
- Why your privacy could be threatened by a bill to protect children | CNET
- Free speech isn’t a free pass for privacy violations | Slate
- We Asked TV Owners to Find Their Privacy Settings. Here’s What Happened. | Consumer Reports
- How to stop your smart home spying on you | The Guardian
- Student privacy laws still apply if coronavirus just closed your school | Ars Technica
- Dressing for the Surveillance Age | The New Yorker
Additional privacy posts, news, and updates are available at the Choose Privacy Every Day blog.
Access and Service in a Time of Coronavirus
- Coronavirus bill lifts some restrictions on telehealth | Multichannel News
- Coronavirus school closures expose digital haves and have-nots | Wall Street Journal
- Coronavirus School Closings Expose Digital Divide | U.S. News & World Report
- A Mini Clearinghouse on Coronavirus, Created by Two School Librarians | School Library Journal
- AT&T waives data cap during coronavirus; Comcast keeps charging overage fees | Ars Technica
- The government couldn’t shut down the internet, right? Think again. | Washington Post
- Amazing (and Free) Resources from the Library of Congress | Knowledge Quest
- Libraries and pandemic preparedness | American Libraries
- After the census: How to use the “mother of open data sets” more than once a decade | American Libraries
Net Neutrality & Broadband
- Opinion: How Trump’s attack on net neutrality created a legal mess for the entire internet | Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
- FCC under fire from senators over rural broadband funding limitations | The Verge
- Coronavirus exposes the digital divide’s toll | Axios
Academic Freedom & Campus Speech
- Coronavirus and the great online-learning experiment | Chronicle of Higher Ed
Libraries & Hate Crimes
- Noose found hanging in Hillside Public Library | Metro Times
Fake News, Free Press, Social Media
- Trump escalates fight against press with libel lawsuits | The Hill
- Surge of misinformation stumps Facebook and Twitter | New York Times
- To Fight Covid-19, Curb the Spread of Germs—and Rumors | Wired
- Twitter expands hateful conduct rules to ban dehumanizing speech around age, disability and now, disease | TechCrunch
- Facebook pulls Trump campaign ads for fake census claims | Ars Technica
- Music criticism in the time of stans and haters | Columbia Journalism Review
First Amendment & Free Speech
- Redefining Free Speech for the Digital Age | Slate
- WV Bible class bill heads to governor | Charleston Gazette-Mail (WV)
- When Protestors Carry Guns, Does It Impede Others’ Free Speech? | The Trace
Around the Web
- Cyber Safety In Schools: Why It’s Time To Think Beyond Your Content Filter | Security Boulevard
- Voices for a more complete women’s history | Intellectual Freedom Blog
- ‘Song of the South’ Will Never Be On Disney+, Bob Iger Confirms | /Film
- American Dirt: Book review and controversy analysis | Intellectual Freedom Blog
- Censoring Anne Frank: how her famous diary has been edited through history | History Extra
- Satire’s Censors Should Lighten Up | Foundation for Economic Education
- The love of reading is the love of freedom | Courier-Tribune (NC)
- Little Free Library Unveils 100,000 Box, Celebrates with Giveaway | School Library Journal
International Issues
- Chinese social media censoring ‘officially sanctioned facts’ on coronavirus | The Guardian
- Toronto’s head librarian digs in deeper in her defence of free speech | National Post
- Woody Allen memoir may still go ahead in France, despite controversy | The Guardian
- We Will Publish Woody Allen’s Axed Book, RT Editor Says | The Moscow Times
- Made-in-China Censorship for Sale | Wall Street Journal
- Fighting censorship with emoji | Abacus
- How a huge Minecraft library is fighting global censorship | Creative Review
ALA News
- Public Library Association announces 2020 award winners
- America’s libraries report for duty as 2020 census opens
- ALCTS presents a guide to graphic novels
- AASL to host webinars for school library preparation faculty and instructors; Tuesday, March 24
- ALSC and ACM accepting applications for Forum on Service to Immigrants/Refugees; due March 31
- ALA calls for 2020 L. Ray Patterson Copyright Award nominations; due April 1
- ALA seeks proposals for 2020 Diversity Research Grants; due April 15
- Learn how to build your own digital scholarship/humanities curriculum with this LITA webinar; April 22
- K-8 libraries invited to apply for $5,000 award recognizing outstanding programming; due May 4
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