Intellectual Freedom News 7/17/2020
Privacy and Cybersecurity
- Defending Black Lives Means Banning Facial Recognition | Wired
- House Members Renew Calls for Privacy Bill After Pandemic Pause | MeriTalk
- Is it time to delete TikTok? A guide to the rumors and real privacy risks | Washington Post
- The Technology 202: Tech to contain coronavirus on college campuses sparks fresh privacy concerns | Washington Post
- Four states are sharing driver’s license info to help find out who’s a citizen | NPR

First Amendment, Free Speech, and Civil Liberties
Access
- Summersville Public Library issues statement following incident | WVVA NBC (WV)
- Trump admin undercuts CDC, seizes control of national COVID-19 data | Ars Technica
Net Neutrality & Broadband Access
- Collins, Manchin want broadband boost for rural libraries | Manistee News Advocate
- Research notes before and during COVID-19 on Digital Inequity | Intersections (ALA Office of Diversity, Literacy, and Outreach Services blog)
Academic Freedom & Campus Speech
- Princeton Professors want to punish research they deem racist | Forbes
- [Webinar video & recap] Free speech and Black Lives Matter on campus | PEN America
Fake News, Free Press, Social Media
- Facebook and Instagram ban all posts promoting conversion therapy | The Verge
- How literary censorship inspired creativity in Victorian writers | Pressenza
- Who gets the banhammer now? | New York Times; “In a single week, some of the internet’s biggest platforms banned users and groups they had tolerated for years. What changed?
- Twitch unbans Trump after two-week suspension for ‘hateful conduct’ | The Verge
- Editing history: Hong Kong publishers self-censor under new security law | Reuters
- The conservative alternative to Twitter wants to be a place for free speech for all. Turns out, rules still apply | Washington Post
- Twitter, the New York Times and why cancel culture is not about free speech | The New Statesmen
International News
- To ‘protect young minds,’ Hong Kong moves to overhaul schools | New York Times
Around the Web
- Mat-Su, Maya, and Rape in Literature | Intellectual Freedom Blog
- The spectre of censorship and intolerance stalks today’s left | The Guardian
- Books removed from school because they were outdated, not contaminated by the coronavirus | PolitiFact
ALA News
- ALA COVID-19 resources guide path to reopening and recovery
- The electronic resources troubleshooting guide
- Constructing library buildings that work
- ALA, Capital One invite rural libraries to apply for Community Connect: Digital Access at Home grants; due August 26
- Recruiting and retaining younger generations for library boards, Friends groups, and Foundations
- ALA summons support for Library Stabilization Fund Act
- ALA Council approves Core; dissolves ALCTS, LITA and LLAMA
- Libraries invited to apply for ALA’s ‘Resilient Communities: Libraries Respond to Climate Change’
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