Intellectual Freedom News 8/21/2020
Censorship
- Stanford educators, students criticize bans of Toni Morrison’s ‘The Bluest Eye’ | The Stanford Daily
- Complaint over book, instruction sparks community conversation on race | Eagle Times
Privacy and Cybersecurity
- Cellphone apps designed to track covid-19 spread struggle worldwide amid privacy concerns | The Washington Post
- College contact-tracing app readily leaked personal data, report finds | Ars Technica
- McConnell Appears Set to Quietly Suffocate Long-Debated F.B.I. Surveillance Bill | New York Times
- Getting Your Name off People-Search Sites Is Nearly Impossible | Consumer Reports
- Service Bought Phone Location Data from Apps, Contract Confirms | Vice
- Facial Recognition Is a Threat to People of Color | Bloomberg Law
Additional privacy news for are available at the Choose Privacy Every Day blog.
First Amendment, Free Speech, and Civil Liberties
- U.S. Urges Supreme Court to Let Trump Block Twitter Critics | Bloomberg
- Facial Recognition Start-Up Mounts a First Amendment Defense | The New York Times
- Charlottesville Three Years Later: The First Amendment Confronts Hate and Violence | The Los Angeles Review of Books
- Civil liberties group still waiting for UNT response | Denton Record-Chronicle
- State Supreme Court grants reprieve to Seattle news outlets in police subpoena case | The Seattle Times
- White House Seeks New Hearing In Battle Over Journalist’s Press Pass | MediaPost
- How the Supreme Court Dropped the Ball on the Right to Protest | POLITICO
- Explore the First Amendment Freedom to Assemble | Freedom Forum
Access
- How Will Public Libraries Adapt To New School Year Norms? | Book Riot
- School Librarians Face Reopening Challenges | American Libraries
- Still waiting for a library book? It might be in a coronavirus quarantine | The Sacramento Bee
- Library Supporters Urge Action as Senate Recesses Without Relief Bill | Publishers Weekly
Net Neutrality & Broadband Access
- ‘A national crisis’: As coronavirus forces many schools online this fall, millions of disconnected students are being left behind | The Washington Post
- Charter Spectrum Tells FCC Broadband Caps Are ‘Popular’ As It Tries To Kill Merger Conditions Preventing Them | Techdirt
- How hate speech reveals the invisible politics of internet infrastructure | Brookings Institute
Academic Freedom & Campus Speech
- A College’s ‘Free Speech Areas’ Face Supreme Court Review | The New York Times
Fake News, Free Press, Social Media
- Health misinformation pages got half a billion views on Facebook in April | MIT Technology Review
- TikTok removes 380,000 videos in U.S. for violating hate speech policy | Nasdaq
- Facebook Removes QAnon Groups as It Expands Anti-Violence Policy | Wall Street Journal
- Anti-vaccine group sues Facebook, claims fact-checking is “censorship” | Ars Technica
- Facebook blocks users from linking to new Plandemic hoax video | The Verge
- Pew: 73% of Americans believe social media platforms censor political speech | VentureBeat
- Anti-vaccination group sues Facebook over ‘censoring’ posts | The Hill
- Why the surge in racist misinformation about Kamala Harris is so worrisome | Vox
- Save Disgusting Social Media From Censorship | InsideSources
- Spotting Misinformation and #FakeNews: 10 Resources To Teach Students Media Literacy | School Library Journal
Copyright
- Report finds content pirates make $1 billion per year stealing and reselling TV shows and movies | TechRepublic
International News
- Australian university criticized for censoring voices supporting human rights in Hong Kong | Hong Kong Free Press
- Libraries remove vital trans teen book after disgraceful far-right letter writing campaign linking LGBT+ lives to paedophilia | Pink News UK
- Facebook Staff Demand Policy Changes on India Hate Speech | The Wall Street Journal
- How bad policy led South Korea into a Net Neutrality nightmare | Medianama
- Taiwan to Ban Chinese Media Apps Over Security Concerns | Radio Free Asia
- Drag Queens Take Political Activist To Human Rights Commission | Star Observer
- Chinese Publisher Removes Burke’s French Revolution Book From Shelves | Radio Free Asia
- Pakistan province pushes crackdown on publishers | Bangkok Post
- Portnoy and the complaints of the Australian censors | The Syndey Morning Herald
- Nigerian lesbian love film to go online to avoid censorship board | Reuters
Around the Web
- Trump’s Attack on the Postal Service Is a Threat to Democracy—and to Rural America | The New Yorker
- Judge Blocks Idaho Law Limiting Sports Participation by Transgender Females | Education Week
- Black-ish: What Was So Controversial About That Shelved Episode? | Vanity Fair
- Disinformation for profit: How a Florida ‘dealmaker’ turns conservative outrage into cash | The Washington Post
- The newsroom was the beating heart of a local newspaper. What’s lost when the owner shuts it down? | The Washington Post
- Sons use e-books to help virus-stricken dad, other patients | AP News
- Reflections on the O’Hanlon Mural | Intellectual Freedom Blog
- One School Reads Unite Students and Staff | School Library Journal
- J.K. Rowling’s Magical Thinking is Censorship | Intellectual Freedom Blog
ALA News
- ALA Connect Live Monthly Series. Join the conversation August 27, 2020 2pm ET. With the academic school year kicking off, let’s gather to discuss how libraries are approaching reopening during the coronavirus. Connect with fellow librarians and leaders within our community to discuss how to approach and tackle the difficult questions that the new school year brings.
- Digital Access at Home grants; due August 26
- Libraries invited to apply for ALA’s ‘Resilient Communities: Libraries Respond to Climate Change’; due August 28
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