Intellectual Freedom News 5/29/2020
Highlights
- ALA Executive Board Stands with APALA in Condemning Xenophobia, Racism | American Libraries; “The ALA Executive Board recognizes that ALA members, library workers, and our library communities are experiencing bigotry and attacks based on racial and ethnic heritage and we must stand in solidarity to work to stop these acts.”
Library Services & COVID-19 Resources
- ALA COVID-19 Response
- Pandemic Preparedness: Resources for Libraries | American Library Association
- Librarians recruited as COVID-19 hunters | American Libraries
- Third Snapshot Survey Reports Large Variation in Student Expectations and Outcomes | Knowledge Quest
- Where We Are Now: Libraries, COVID-19, and the Online Learning Challenge | School Library Journal
Censorship
- Trump campaign attempts to remove satirical cartoon from online retailer | The Guardian
- VICTORY: Redbubble Restores Nick Anderson Cartoon Following CBLDF Action | CBLDF; “CBLDF was joined by Association of American Editorial Cartoonists, American Library Association, Office For Intellectual Freedom, Authors Guild, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Freedom to Read Foundation, National Coalition Against Censorship, and PEN America in the letter urging Redbubble to restore Mr. Anderson’s work.”
- Will China’s entry into U.S. publishing lead to censorship? | Los Angeles Times
First Amendment and Free Speech
- Judges toss lawsuit alleging anti-conservative bias on social media | Endgadget
- Freedom Watch and Laura Loomer Lose Lawsuit Against Social Media Platforms | Volokh Conspiracy
- Freedom Watch, et al. v. Google, Inc. et al. | Judgment, District of Columbia Court of Appeals
Privacy and Cybersecurity
- Arizona sues Google over allegations it illegally tracked Android smartphone users’ locations | Washington Post
- ACLU sues facial recognition firm Clearview AI, calling it a ‘nightmare scenario’ for privacy | The Verge
- Democrats urge probe of allegations regarding TikTok and children’s privacy | Reuters
- Mozilla, Reddit, Twitter call on Congress to protect your browsing privacy | CNet
- ANA Urges Federal Lawmaker To Oppose California Privacy Proposal | Digital Daily News
- House expected to vote on search and browsing privacy this week | Ars Technica
- Trump tweet throws House surveillance debate into chaos | Ars Technica
Additional privacy posts, news, and updates are available at the Choose Privacy Every Day blog.
Access
- The Future of College Is Online, and It’s Cheaper | New York Times
- ‘A source of hope’: 1,500 books donated to students in home-isolation on the Navajo Nation | Salt Lake Tribune
- Expanding Online Student Success Strategies for the COVID Era | Peer to Peer Review | Library Journal
Net Neutrality & Broadband Access
- 5 steps to get internet to all Americans | Brookings
- Imagine weathering this without Internet. Many are — and Congress should help | Washington Post
- Schools are some families’ best hope for Internet access, but Virginia laws are getting in the way | Washington Post
- Making Internet service a utility—what’s the worst that could happen? | Ars Technica
- Key Elements of State Broadband Programs | Pew Charitable Trusts
- For some students, getting online means using a parking lot | Daily Dot
- The Broadband Gap—Who’s Not Online in America Today | Pew Charitable Trusts
Academic Freedom & Campus Speech
- Academic Freedom and COVID-19 in China | Inside Higher Ed
Fake News, Free Press, Social Media
- Twitter’s first fact-check on President Trump calls out “false claims” [Updated] | Ars Technica
- Trump Prepares Order to Limit Social Media Companies’ Protections | New York Times
- Full text of President Trump’s executive order aimed at preventing online censorship | NBC News
- Trump is threatening to close down social media companies. Can he actually do that? | Vox Recode
- Trump’s Order on Social Media Could Harm One Person in Particular: Donald Trump | New York Times
- Trump’s “Preventing Online Censorship” Executive Order Is Pro-Censorship Political Theater | Technology and Marketing Law Blog
- Are marginalized communities being censored online? | Forbes
- Meta-Information Literacy: Checking-in on Twitter’s Battle Against Disinformation | Intellectual Freedom Blog
- American nationalists’ European vacation: American groups have targeted European elections to try out online misinformation tactics ahead of the 2020 US presidential election | Politico
Around the Web
- Who I Am & The Books I Choose: Teacher Identities & Text Selection | Intellectual Freedom Blog
- Interview with Jed Dearybury, LGBTQ+ Advocate | Intellectual Freedom Blog
- How Do Libraries Clean Books? And More Questions From Our Readers | Smithsonian
- ‘Back To The Future’ writer wants Universal to destroy censored version of sequel | NME
- Reading Alternatives to Three Problematic Classics | School Library Journal
- Little House, Big Problem: What To Do with “Classic” Books That Are Also Racist | School Library Journal
- News Literacy Must Include Social Emotional Learning | School Library Journal
International Issues
- French contact-tracing app approved by lawmakers, to launch this weekend | Reuters
- India makes source code of contact-tracing app public | Reuters
ALA News
- Black Caucus of the American Library roundly condemns the death of George Floyd
- AASL Partners with StoryCorps to Launch StoryCorps Connect and Bring Individuals Together
- ALA Editions releases free PDF of coloring pages, writing prompts, and uplifting quotes
- ALA partners with the Women’s Suffrage Centennial Commission to donate 6,000 book sets to libraries
- Freedom to Read Foundation Offers 2020 Banned Books Week Grants; deadline May 31
- Webinar: Reimagining Programming during a Pandemic; June 1 | American Libraries
- AASL holds virtual membership meeting June 2
- 2020 Will Eisner Graphic Novel Grants for Libraries Recipients Announced
- Young activists and the public library
- ACRL, ARL, ODLOS, and PLA announce joint cultural competencies task force
- Mark your calendar, ALA Virtual: Community through Connection June 24-26, 2020
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