Intellectual Freedom News 7/09/2021
Highlights
- Intellectual Freedom: A Manual for Library Workers – Editors and contributors discuss the latest edition | American Libraries Magazine
Censorship
- [Kentucky] State ed commissioner condemns anti-CRT legislation as ‘censorship bills’ | Bowling Green Daily News
- Bob Bullock Texas history museum pulls out of ‘Forget the Alamo’ book event after conservative pressure | KXAN
- Zeiger Elementary faces backlash for putting book with transgender hero on display | MEAWW.com
- Why are states banning critical race theory? | Brookings
- LCPS committees recommend keeping controversial books in high schools | Loudoun Times-Mirror
- Committee Recommends Controversial School Library Books Stay | Loudoun Now
- Editorial: Banning books from the classroom would be a mistake | Loudoun Times-Mirror
Privacy & Cybersecurity
- Bill Would Ban Facial Recognition in Public Housing | Nextgov
- Biden to Urge More Scrutiny of Tech Mergers and Data Privacy | The New York Times
- Maine Becomes First State To Pass Broad Government Ban on Facial Recognition Technology | CPO Magazine
- New York Law Firm Helps Explain City’s New Biometric Data Protection Law | Find Biometrics
More privacy news is available at the Voices for Privacy blog.
First Amendment, Free Speech, & Civil Liberties
- Florida’s social media free speech law has been blocked for likely violating free speech laws | Vox
- US Supreme Court to hear Maine religious school tuition case | AP
- Donor disclosure requirement violates First Amendment rights of association, SCOTUS rules | ABA Journal
- US Supreme Court rejects appeal by florist who refused to serve same-sex couple | Jurist
- Michigan Supreme Court bypasses Court of Appeals to hear LGBTQ case | M Live
- Black lawmakers seek DOJ review of Louisiana State Police | Independent
- Lawmaker Wants to Grill Officers on Critical Race Theory Before Approving Promotions | Government Executive
- The War on History is a War on Democracy | New York Times Magazine
- Clarence Thomas and Neil Gorsuch call to revisit landmark First Amendment case New York Times v. Sullivan | CNN
- ACLU of Arizona accuses MCAO of coercing guilty pleas | 3TV/CBS 5
Net Neutrality & Broadband
- Designing digital services for equitable access | Brookings
Copyright
- Cop’s Effort to Censor Witness Video With Copyrighted Taylor Swift Song Backfires | Common Dreams
- LA Court Abusing Copyright Law To Take Down (Unauthorized) Recording Of Britney Spears Hearing | TechDirt
- Riot Games Launches Royalty-Free Album For Streamers | Bloomberg
- Disney trademarked Loki, the Marvel movie character. Some fans of the Norse god were not happy. | The Washington Post
Access
- Apache Junction library board opens materials to all ages | Apache Junction Independent
- Prince William Libraries are now fine-free | Inside Nova
Academic Freedom & Campus Speech
- College students skeptical of GOP crackdown on critical race theory | Axios
- Critical race theory is just the new buzzword in conservatives’ war on campuses | The Washington Post
- Duval County Teachers Speak Out Against Critical Race Theory Ban | WJCT
- Why is the Florida legislature surveying college professors and students on political beliefs? | Savannah Now
- Nikole Hannah-Jones Declines U. of North Carolina’s Tenure Offer, Plans to Join Howard U. | Chronicle of Higher Education
- Lessons from Nikole Hannah-Jones’s tenure battle | Columbia Journalism Review
- The rise of a generation of censors: Law schools the latest battlement over free speech | The Hill
- Anti-American,’ Pushing ‘Marxism,’ and More: Do You Recognize Your College Here? | Chronicle of Higher Education
Social Media
- Social Media Platforms as Common Carriers? | Reason
- Social Media Platforms and the Dangers of Censorship Creep | Reason
- Twitter Denies Working With Governments After Accusations of Censoring Complaints in China | Newsweek
- Judge Throws Out Vaccine Critics’ ‘Censorship’ Lawsuit Against Facebook | MediaPost
- Hunting down bots and ‘bad guys’ on social media | .coda
- Trump sues Twitter and Facebook for banning him, claims “trillions” in damages | Ars Technica
Journalism & Media
- Dissenting US Supreme Court justices question libel protections for media organizations | Jurist
- What I Learned from the Nonprofit News Revolution | Columbia Journalism Review
- The coronavirus has closed more than 70 local newsrooms across America. And counting. | Poynter
Information Literacy & Disinformation
- Why Generation Z falls for online misinformation | MIT Technology Review
- Opinion: Justice Gorsuch is concerned about Internet disinformation. But his solution is backwards | The Washington Post
- Global Democracies Need to Align to Fight Disinformation | WIRED
- From corporate America to conspiracy theory promotion: How a Minnesota man made a career out of anonymously amplifying dark plots | The Washington Post
International News
- TikTok back in Pakistan after court revokes ban | Channel News Asia
- LGBTQ Social Media Groups at Most Major Chinese Universities Shuttered Overnight | Variety
- The Cybersecurity 202: Group maps alleged victims of NSO Group surveillance tool | The Washington Post
- Assassination of president plunges Haiti into conspiracy theories, rumor and fake news | .coda
Around the Web
- Hungary levies fine over sale of book about ‘rainbow families’ | Reuters
- The Rise of Self-Censorship | Psychology Today
- FBI launches flurry of arrests over attacks on journalists during Capitol riot | The Washington Post
- Opinion: We lose the teaching power of stories when lawmakers seek to ban ‘racism’ from the conversation | Cleveland.com
- TikTok is taking the book industry by storm, and retailers are taking notice | NBC News
- How An Anti-Vice Crusader Sabotaged The Early Birth Control Movement | NPR
- How a Neo-Nazi race war novel from 1978 helped inspire the Capitol insurrection | Raw Story
- Makerspaces in Libraries: On Challenges to our Democratic Values | Emerging Libraries and Information Perspectives
- How Fake Accounts and Sneaker-Bots Took Over the Internet | ThreatPost
- Why tech needs to focus on the needs of marginalized groups | World Economic Forum
ALA News
- ALA welcomes more than 9,000 to virtual gathering
- Call for Volunteers for Newly Created ALA Code of Conduct Committee and expanded Policy Monitoring Committee & Council Orientation Committee
- A Conversation with School Administrators at AASL National Conference
- ALA’s Committee on Diversity Announces Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Scorecard for Library and Information Organizations
Publishing
Awards and Grants
- MAGIRT Honors Award for 2021 presented to Carol McAuliffe and David Bertuca
- Janet Lee receives 2021 John Ames Humphry/OCLC/Forest Press Award
eLearning
- Discovering Family History in Library Collections: A RUSA Webcast Series
- United for Libraries’ July 27 Learning Live session will continue education on Gift Acceptance Policies
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