Intellectual Freedom News 3/26/2021
Highlights
- Deeper Dive with President Barb Stripling: Freedom to Read Foundation Report to Council | Intellectual Freedom Blog
Censorship
- North Allegheny students defend use of book ‘The Hate U Give’ in ninth grade English curriculum | Pittsburgh Post Gazette
- Ban textbooks that ‘promote’ or ‘support’ LGBTQ community, Tennessee lawmaker says | Kansas City Star
- Iowa bill banning race and sex ‘scapegoating’ expands from schools, universities to all government agencies | The Gazette
- Utah governor signs divisive measure to require porn filters | AP/Oregon Public Broadcasting
Privacy & Cybersecurity
- Exam-Proctoring Software Targeted in New Wave of BIPA Class Action Litigation | JDSupra
- US privacy, consumer, competition and civil rights groups urge ban on ‘surveillance advertising’ | TechCrunch
- Fourth Circuit Allows Baltimore Police Department’s Aircraft-Based Surveillance Program to Continue | JDSupra
More privacy news is available at the Voices for Privacy blog.
First Amendment, Free Speech, & Civil Liberties
- Mike Pheneger: A military veteran says DeSantis anti-protest law undermines 1st Amendment | Florida Politics
- How dissent gets criminalized: America’s right to insult the government is under attack | Salon
- Key Commission on AI Recommends Privacy and Civil Liberties Protections in Domestic Use | JDSupra
- ACLU, Duke Law’s First Amendment Clinic voice concerns over mass gathering ordinance | The Gaston Gazette
- Kansas Court Rules No-Surcharge Statute Unconstitutional | JDSupra
- Cincinnati Court Clerk Must Defend First Amendment Action Over Access Delays | Courthouse News Service
- Washington OKs bill to give voting rights to parolees | Oregon Public Broadcasting
- Families Say Athletic Bans Would Exact Toll on Rural Transgender Youth | Pew Stateline
- Transgender bills called bad for state; effect on commerce raised as a fear | Arkansas Democrat Gazette
- Appeals Court Judge Attacks Fundamental Principle Of 1st Amendment Law, Because He Thinks The Media Likes Democrats Too Much | Techdirt
Access
- AI-Powered Content Filtering Adds New Protection Powers | EdTech
- Wautoma Public Library goes fine-free starting Apr. 1 | Waushara Argus
Net Neutrality & Broadband Access
Academic Freedom & Campus Speech
- University of Florida suspends conservative student groups over COVID policy violations, reaps backlash | The Gainesville Sun
- At Odds With Her University Over Gender Identity | Inside Higher Ed
- Another Win for Christian Student Group at University of Iowa | Inside Higher Ed
Social Media
- All the Ways Congress Wants to Change Section 230 | Slate
- Utah governor vetoes bill limiting perceived social media censorship | Daily Herald
- Everything in Moderation: Artificial Intelligence and Social Media Content Review | JDSupra
- Facebook sued for ‘deceptive practices’ over disinformation on platform | Guardian
- Security Analysis Clears TikTok of Censorship, Privacy Accusations | ThreatPost
Copyright
- Free as in Climbing: Rock Climber’s Open Data Project Threatened by Bogus Copyright Claims | EFF
- Are Police Officers Attempting to Misappropriate Instagram’s Copyright Strike-Algorithms? | Intellectual Property Brief
- NFTs Are Reshaping Artists’ IP Rights | Bloomberg Law
- A Common Dilemma: Responding to Copyright Trolls | JDSupra
Journalism, Media, & Disinformation
- Protecting freedom without killing it: Combating vaccine disinformation | The Hill
- Meeting COVID-19 Misinformation and Disinformation Head-On | Johns Hopkins
- Russia outsources disinformation efforts to foreign troll farms | Roll Call
- ‘The Gospel Truth?’ Covid-19 vaccines and the danger of religious misinformation | BBC
- Disinformation Dozen: Two-Thirds of Online Anti-Vaccine Content Originates From Top 12 Anti-Vax Leaders | PR Newswire
- Bill to Examine Spread of COVID-19 Misinformation and Disinformation | Prince William Living
- Lawmakers Grill Tech C.E.O.s on Capitol Riot, Getting Few Direct Answers | The New York Times
- Social Media: Counter disinformation with digital literacy and more objective-based policies | The Edge
- The Power of Political Disinformation in Iowa | The New Yorker
- Dominion files $1.6 billion lawsuit against Fox News over false election fraud claims | ABC News
International News
- Critics fear censorship as Hungary plans to reform pop music | TRT World
- Stolen art on stolen land: Aboriginal art and copyright | Honi Soit
- In France, a Woman’s ‘Emancipation Journey’ Triggers Death Threats | Voice of America
- Kazakhstan adopts new accreditation requirements that journalists fear will promote censorship | Committee to Protect Journalists
- Civil rights groups urge EU lawmakers to rebuff online terrorist content law | Reuters
- Thai police raid printing house over book by pro-democracy leader | Arab News
- Myanmar Citizens Use Protester Toolkit to Skirt Internet Ban | Bloomberg
Around the Web
- Book Review: Dark Archives: A Librarian’s Investigation into the Science and History of Books Bound in Human Skin | Intellectual Freedom Blog
- Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh: Supporting Our Asian American And Pacific Islander Community | Patch
- Library of Congress Accepts OU Libraries’ Proposal to Change Subject Heading to ‘Tulsa Race Massacre’ | University of Oklahoma
- You Probably Don’t Remember the Internet: How do we memorialize life online when it’s constantly disappearing? | The Atlantic
- Pennsylvania representative introduces bill to ‘safeguard’ kids books from the ‘woke horde’ | WPXI (PA)
- Oh Joy Sex Toy Creator Says Amazon Withholding Payments After Affiliate Removal | CBR
- Peacock Is Removing Controversial Moments from Old WWE Shows | TVweb
ALA News
- Choice launches diversity, equity and inclusion initiative, Toward Inclusive Excellence
- ALA Endowment Trustees add minority-owned GQG Partners as newest fund manager
- ALSC launches Book & Media Awards Shelf website
- Free training to boost Census data literacy skills, improve planning and programs
- Resources for rightsizing collections, assessing learners using the AASL Standards, and more in the new Spring/Summer 2021 catalog from ALA Editions | ALA Neal-Schuman
ALA Publishing
- AASL’s guide to learning centers for school libraries
- The updated one-shot library instruction survival guide
Awards and Grants
eCourses and Webinars
- Core Webinar: Writing for the Web
- NMRT Seeking Job Search Webinar Panelists
- Choice announces new webinar event: When You Picture a Scientist, Who Do You See? A panel conversation on advancing diversity and inclusion in STEM
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