Intellectual Freedom News 9/10/2021
Highlights
- Banned Books Week to unite communities
- Reminder to register for ALA’s Inaugural Virtual Volunteer Fair on September 14, 2021 and to submit Volunteer Applications for Committees by September 30, 2021!
Censorship
- Campbell County Public Library: The books not closed on 22 challenged publications | County 17
- Saturday Essay: Don’t censor educational inquiry | Toledo Blade
- Missouri Relocates Gay History Exhibit From State Capitol | The New York Times
- Opinion — Nate Coulter: Freedom to read | Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
- Critical race theory bans are making teaching much harder | Vox
- Students at Central York High School hold protest after district bans materials by Black and Latino authors that discuss race in America | FOX 43
- Tea Party 2.0? Conservatives get organized in school battles | AP
Privacy & Cybersecurity
- ‘Panic made us vulnerable’: how 9/11 made the US surveillance state — and the Americans who fought back | The Guardian
- Apple delays iPhone photo-scanning plan amid fierce backlash | ABC News
- Mergers, acquisitions, and my tinfoil hat | LibrarianShipwreck
- Baltimore Officially Bans Private Use Of Facial Recognition Technology | JDSupra
More privacy news is available at the Voices for Privacy blog.
First Amendment, Free Speech, & Civil Liberties
- The Human Rights Violations of the 9/11 Era Are Still With Us | The Nation
- Florida’s new “anti-riot” law championed by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis violates First Amendment rights | Minneapolis Star-Tribune/Associated Press
- Texas Abortion Law Will Chill Online Advocacy Efforts for Reproductive Rights | Truth Out
- Religious exemptions to vaccine mandates could test ‘sincerely held beliefs’ | NBC News
- Limit on food distribution to homeless people in parks violates First Amendment, 11th Circuit rules | ABA Journal
- White House Urged to Shutter Privately Run Kansas Prison | US News
- No punishment for Tennessee cop who posted about setting up ‘Portland safari’ to ‘hunt liberals’ | Oregon Live
Access
- Catawba County Library eliminates late fees | Hickory Daily Record
- Why Have Libraries Gone Fine-free The Past Few Years? | Intellectual Freedom News
Net Neutrality & Broadband
- The Technology 202: Where are President Biden’s telecom picks? | The Washington Post
Copyright
- Supreme Court’s Patent Judge Ruling May Bedevil Copyright Board | Bloomberg Law
Academic Freedom & Campus Speech
- Former lecturer sues UNL for violating her free speech rights after protest | Daily Nonpareil
- Academic Freedom Came Under Attack in the Post-9/11 United States | Teen Vogue
Social Media
- Texas governor signs bill prohibiting social media giants from blocking users based on viewpoint | The Washington Post
Journalism & Media
Information Literacy & Disinformation
- The right-wing US textbooks that teach slavery as ‘black immigration’ | The Guardian
- Spanish-language Covid disinformation is aimed at Latinos as delta surges | NBC News
- Why are Kansas Republicans playing this strange, dangerous COVID disinformation game? | Kansas City Star
- Nikki Fried blasts Ron DeSantis for spreading ‘disinformation’ on vaccines | Florida Politics
- Pro-Russian Disinformation Systematically Spread Using Western Media Channels | Infosecurity Magazine
- Fears rise over disinformation in California’s recall election | The Hill
- One Woman’s Mission to Rewrite Nazi History on Wikipedia | Wired
International News
- Pakistan: Censoring Journalism in the Name of ‘Media Development’ | The Wire
- China’s media cracks down on ‘effeminate’ styles | BBC
- Barents Observer fights Russian censorship, opens Telegram channel | Barents Observer
- Far-right groups hit Germany’s flooded regions with conspiracy theories and disinformation | Coda
- Chinese social media site Weibo suspends 22 K-pop accounts | BBC
- Book burning at Ontario francophone schools as ‘gesture of reconciliation’ denounced | Windsor Star
- In Kenya, Influencers Are Hired to Spread Disinformation | WIRED
- Brazil’s President Bans Social Networks From Removing Some Posts | The New York Times
Around the Web
- Happy Birthday, Alison Bechdel! | Intellectual Freedom Blog
- Two New Works Tackle Censorship And The Power Of Speech | Forbes
- Is it Safe to Unblock Censored Content in a Foreign Country? | Maryland Reporter
- Can a Nonprofit Disrupt the Pricey Prison Phone Industry? | Bloomberg CityLab
- Should We Be Reading Huck Finn? | High Plains Public Radio
- When Education Standards Stereotype, Marginalize, and Eliminate Indigenous Peoples | Intellectual Freedom Blog
ALA News
- LIS Students: Apply for the 2022 Larew Scholarship for Tuition Help
- Carnegie-Whitney Grant awards up to $5,000 for guides to library resources
- Core Webinar: Motivate, Empower, and Engage Staff Through Coaching
- United for Libraries’ September 14 Learning Live session will highlight National Friends of Libraries Week, Oct. 17-23
- September Online Learning with RUSA
- IMLS funds $500,000 research project to study the value of U.S. library programming
- Booklist launches Booklist Reader for library patrons and the public
- 2021 YALSA Symposium
- David Satten-López Named 2021 Core/OCLC Spectrum Scholar
- Run for ALA office by filing an electronic petition
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