Intellectual Freedom News 5/28/2021
Highlights
Censorship
- Scarborough schools failed to follow policy in pulling books from 7th-grade curriculum | Press Herald
- Attempts to ban teaching on ‘critical race theory’ multiply across the U.S. | Iowa Capital Dispatch
- White People’s Fear of Critical Race Theory is Based in Ignorance | Read Cultured
- House Republicans intorduce bill to ban teaching of critical race theory in Ohio | The Colombus Dispatch
- Cherokee County parents upset over Critical Race Theory teachings | CBS46
- Durham school board opposes bill they say would limit teaching about race, sex biases | WRAL
- Lechelt: On banning books. Specifically, ‘Monday’s Not Coming’ | Loudoun Times-Mirror
- North Carolina School District Appears to Ban Book One of a Kind, Like Me for Acknowledging Gender Identity Issues | National Coalition Against Censorship
- NCAC Asks New Jersey School District to Clarify Overly Broad Material Vetting Policy | National Coalition Against Censorship
Privacy & Cybersecurity
- The privacy paradox of public libraries | Jeroen de Boer
- Shoshana Zuboff Explains Why You Should Care About Privacy | The New York Times
- What Does Our Right to Privacy Mean in the Digital Age? | Law.com
- US towns are buying Chinese surveillance tech tied to Uighur abuses | TechCrunch
- Facial Recognition Technology’s Pervasive Role in American Life [podcast] | KQED
More privacy news is available at the Voices for Privacy blog.
First Amendment, Free Speech, & Civil Liberties
- Minnesota courts again turn back push to restore felon voting rights | Minneapolis Star Tribune
- Tennessee moves to the forefront with anti-transgender laws | AP
- ACLU sues Arkansas over ban on treatment for transgender youth | The Hill
- Civil rights groups sue West Virginia over new anti-trans sports bill | CNN
- Texas transgender sports bill fails to meet crucial deadline | Washington Examiner
- A teacher hangs a BLM flag at a school named for a Confederate general. Now she’s under investigation. | USA Today
- Ninth Circuit Rejects Student Claims Their School Distrtict Forced Them to Protest Guns | Courthouse News Service
- Blackness as Fighting Words | Virginia Law Review
- Federal judge finds Georgia anti-BDS law unconstitutional | Jurist
- Deep Dive: Free Speech – Perspectives on free speech in the 21st century | Chicago Humanities Fest (Video)
Access
- Cloudflare no longer blocks LGBTQ web pages | TechRadar
Academic Freedom & Campus Speech
- The Context Is the Entire Point | Inside Higher Ed
- What is at stake with Nikole Hannah-Jones being denied tenure | The Guardian
- We Are Critics of Nikole Hannah-Jones. Her Tenure Denial Is a Travesty. | The Chronicle of Higher Education
- North Dakota University System challenges law that bans partnerships with abortion providers | Grand Forks Herald
- Campus Group Sues Univ. of Alabama for Restricting Free Speech, Requiring ‘Permission to Speak’ | CBN News
- [South Dakota] Gov. Kristi Noem calls on public universities to engender ‘profound love of country,’ casts doubt on college civics curriculum | Grand Forks Herald
- Column: Yes, there is a case for using offensive words in classrooms — in certain situations | Chicago Tribune
Social Media
- Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis just signed a bill allowing people to sue big tech firms over alleged censorship — and the state to fine companies $250,000 | Business Insider
- Photographers’ new Instagram class action wants to upend online publishing | Reuters
- Texas House midnight deadline passes without vote on social media censorship bill | Concho Valley
- Florida’s New Social Media Law Violates the First Amendment | Bloomberg Opinion
Journalism and Media
Information Literacy & Disinformation
- Floyd’s Death Leads To Disinformation About Black Lives Matter Movement | NPR
- States Grapple With Disinformation Amid Vaccination Efforts | Government Technology
- Report Highlights How AI Could Amplify Future Disinformation Campaigns | Nextgov
- Russia is still the biggest player in disinformation, Facebook says | The Washington Post
International News
- Russia gives Google 24 hours to delete banned content | Reuters
- UK online safety bill raises censorship concerns and questions on future of encryption | Committee to Protect Journalists
- WhatsApp sues Indian government in bid to block ‘mass surveillance’ rules | CNN Business
- India: Copyright Infringement Vs Public Access To Knowledge — The SciHub Case | Mondaq
- Amid Systemic Censorship of Palestinian Voices, Facebook Owes Users Transparency | EFF
- Amid censorship fears, Hong Kong’s artists contemplate an uncertain future | CNN
Around the Web
- How the Tougaloo Nine transformed history | The Washington Post
- The Merritt Fund | Intellectual Freedom Blog
- Apply Now for a Banned Books Week Celebration Grant | Intellectual Freedom Blog
- ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar’ author Eric Carle dies at 91 | Associated Press
- Backlash Over Drag Queen Story Time on PBS Station for Children Aged 3 to 8 | Newsweek
- Activists Mobilize to Fight Censorship and Save Open Science | EFF
- Op-ed: Limiting teachers’ curriculum is just as bad as banning books | Chicago Tribune
- Alabama Will Now Allow Yoga In Its Public Schools (But Students Can’t Say ‘Namaste’) | NPR
- Why Conservatives Want to Cancel the 1619 Project | The Atlantic
- Boone library plans on ‘Activating Community Voices’ with rural library grant equity project | Ames Tribune
- Why more public libraries are doubling as food distribution hubs | News Times
ALA News
- Presidential inaugural poet Amanda Gorman to open The Library Marketplace: Exhibits, Stages, and Resources’ special day of exhibits at the 2021 ALA Annual Conference & Exhibition
- New Research Explores Social Media Learning
- United for Libraries to support free ‘Serving With a Purpose Virtual Fundraising Mini-Conference’
- Meet the 2020/21 class of Emerging Leaders
ALA Publishing
- College & Research Libraries News to move to online-only publishing model
- Advancing a culture of creativity in libraries
Awards and Grants
- IRRT announces grants to cover early bird registration for the 2021 virtual IFLA Congress
- ‘A Quiet Cadence’ wins W.Y. Boyd Literary Award for Excellence in Military Fiction
- Westerville Public Library to receive 2021 SustainRT Citation for Wellness in the Workplace
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