Intellectual Freedom News 9/17/2021
Highlights
Censorship
- Central York students rallying against banned books, documentaries dealing with race | Local 21 News
- Book Ban, Including Sesame Street, Sparks Protest In Pennsylvania | York Daily Voice
- Students Fight Back Against a Book Ban that has a Pennsylvania Community Divided | CNN
- School official vows to review book ban that targeted Black authors | York Dispatch
- Central York School Board declines to reverse book ban after series of protests | York Daily Record
- School District Maintains Ban of Antiracist Books Despite Student Protests | Book Riot
- Manchester Township woman adds Central York’s banned books to her Free Little Library | York Daily Record
- Schools facing critical race theory battles are diversifying rapidly, analysis finds | NBC News
- Residents sound off to commissioners in library saga | County17
- Leander removes 13 books from high school book club lists amid parent concerns | Austin American-Statesman
- Leander Parent Uses Racial Slur In Opposing N.W.A. Song in School | Patch
- Leander Police investigating parent complaints about library book | CBS Austin
- Language crafted to ban all political symbols in classrooms | Pamplin Media
- Outraged by BLM, Pride ban, shoppers vow to boycott Newberg | Pamplin Media
- Pride issue remains a hot topic with library board | KAIT
- From eBay to OnlyFans, Trump’s anti-sex internet crusade is silencing LGBTQ culture | NBC News
- Sikh religion book to stay on Norwalk library shelf, despite complaint | The Hour
- Ohio Mayor Demands School Board Resign over Sexually Explicit Writing Assignment | Yahoo! News
Privacy & Cybersecurity
- Utah librarians talk about 9/11, the Patriot Act, and how they became privacy warriors | Salt Lake Tribune
- 20 years later, unchecked data collection is part of 9/11’s legacy | TechCrunch
- Apple Issues Emergency Security Updates to Close a Spyware Flaw | The New York Times
- Apple Cyber Flaw Allows Silent iPhone Hack Through iMessage | The Wall Street Journal
- Geofence Warrants Threaten Civil Liberties and Free Speech Rights in Kenosha and Nationwide | EFF
- Law Enforcement’s Use of Commercial Phone Data Stirs Surveillance Fight | The Wall Street Journal
More privacy news is available at the Voices for Privacy blog.
First Amendment, Free Speech, & Civil Liberties
- Reflections on 9/11: Anti-Muslim backlash ushered in era of grave threat to civil liberties and rights | Southern Poverty Law Center
- Americans less positive about civil liberties, AP-NORC poll says | WAGM AP
- Spy in Disguise: An FBI Informant’s Unlikely Role in Upcoming Supreme Court Case on Surveillance of Muslims | The Intercept
- Supreme Court finds Colo. Springs police acted unconstitutionally with pole camera surveillance | Colorado Politics
- Biden Ended Contracts with Private Prisons. So One May Turn To House Immigrants | NPR
- Transgender students’ rights shouldn’t be subject to partisan feuds | Brookings Institute
- Northampton schools to reexamine hate speech policy after ACLU says it’s too broad, bans anything that makes some ‘feel badly’ | MassLive
- Florida’s controversial ‘anti-riot’ law blocked by a federal court | MSNBC
- Data-driven policing’s threat to our constitutional rights | Brookings Institute
Net Neutrality & Broadband
- California net neutrality clash heads to court | Politico
- USForward: FCC Must Reform USF Contributions Now – An Analysis of the Options [PDF] | SHLB
Academic Freedom & Campus Speech
- PSU professor resigns, accuses school of becoming ‘social justice factory’ | Oregon Live
- Is It Ever OK to Enunciate a Slur in the Classroom? | Chronicle of Higher Education
Social Media
- Texas governor signs bill banning social media ‘censorship’ amid industry concerns of hate speech proliferation | Jurist
- Wisconsin Republicans pitch online anti-censorship legislation | The Denver Gazette
- Facebook keeps researching its own harms — and burying the findings | The Washington Post
- Facebook Says Its Rules Apply to All. Company Documents Reveal a Secret Elite That’s Exempt. | The Wall Street Journal
- Facebook Knows Instagram Is Toxic for Teen Girls, Company Documents Show | The Wall Street Journal
Journalism & Media
- More Than 100 Organizations and Community Leaders Demand That the FCC Investigate Decades of Racism in Media Policies | Free Press
Information Literacy & Disinformation
- How wellness influencers are fueling the anti-vaccine movement | The Washington Post
- As a doctor, I don’t hate the unvaccinated. But I rage at COVID disinformation profiteers | San Francisco Chronicle
- Military Intel Officials Highlight Efforts to Counter Online Disinformation | Nextgov
- Disinformation campaigns against brands are flourishing across social media | Security Magazine
- Democrats create bilingual tool to combat disinformation aimed at Latinos | NBC News
- House Panel Expands Inquiry Into Climate Disinformation by Oil Giants | The New York Times
International News
- These kids’ books depicting ‘joyful, queer stories’ are being censored in Hungary and Russia | CBC Radio
- Singapore news site suspended, critics fear censorship | Yahoo! News
- On Diversity: A Survey of Canadian Readers 2021 | Booknet Canada
- Infographic: Visualizing Internet Supression Around the World | Visual Capitalist
- How Hollywood Sold Out to China | The Atlantic
- Thousands of independent news accounts disappear from China’s “clean, healthy” internet | Verdict
- Police raids on movie screenings. Censors closing in. Hong Kong’s filmmakers fight to stay free | Los Angeles Times
- Curtin University lobbies for retraction of unethical AI study on Uyghur facial recognition | ABC News
- British diplomat uses social media to draw attention to removal of Chinese mosque minarets | ABC News
- Beijing court dismisses landmark #MeToo case as authorities censor discussion | The Washington Post
- Brazilian Senate repeals Bolsonaro decree against social media alleged censorship | MercoPress
- Russia: Broad Facial Recognition Use Undermines Rights | Human Rights Watch
Around the Web
- The Man Behind Critical Race Theory | The New Yorker
- Why investing in libraries is a climate justice issue | High Country News
- Oregon School Boards Association leaders admonish school board members: Follow the law, like it or not | The Oregonian
- An Anti-Vaccine Book Tops Amazon’s COVID Search Results. Lawmakers Call Foul | GPB NPR
- 11 Books That Were Banned For Ridiculous Reasons | Mental Floss
- How could anyone ever hate Anne Frank — why a fringe group declared war on the Holocaust’s most famous victim | Forward
- How CIA used Louis Armstrong as ‘trojan horse’ in Congo: Book | Daily Sabah
- ‘Forget the Alamo’ Depicts A Racist Heritage, Sparking Backlash | Pew Stateline
- Five banned books to get children excited about reading | tes
ALA News
- American Library Association announces LibLearnX will be virtual
- Tiffany H. Ly Selected as 2021 Miriam L. Hornback Scholarship Recipient
- Mia I. Glionna Selected as the 2021 Peter Lyman Memorial/SAGE Scholarship Recipient
- ALA Calls for 2022 L. Ray Patterson Copyright Award Nominations
- Melissa Grasso Selected as the 2021 Tom and Roberta Drewes Scholarship Recipient
- SRRT establishes the Herb Biblo Outstanding Leadership Award for Social Justice & Equality
- Applications Open for 2022 AASL Awards
- 60 libraries selected as NASA@ My Library Partners
- New ALA report on library programming offers recommendations to the field
- ALA President Patty Wong to host Connectivity Corner Instagram Live series on libraries, broadband access and digital equity
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