Intellectual Freedom News 9/3/2021
Highlights
Censorship
- Gillette residents call for controversial library books to be moved | Powell Tribune
- Leander ISD board adopts policy changes after high school book club title review | Community Impact
- “The Bluest Eye” remains a point of contention in Chelsea | The Sun Times News
- Nashville school board pledges to fight racism, white privilege amid critical race theory ban | Tennessean
- Cedarburg mural removed by school board reborn [off-site] in Grafton | FOX6
- Ahead of First Friday Pride Parade, Carbondale leaders rebuke letter sent to business owners | Aspen Daily News
- Woman Calls for Banning of LGBTQ Books at Indy Public Library | WKFR
- Teachers protest bills targeting critical race theory, race education | ABC News
- ‘Afraid to teach’: School’s book ban targeted Black, Latino authors | York Dispatch
- Whitefish Bay tax levy passes overwhelmingly after effort by some parents to stop it over how race is taught | Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Privacy & Cybersecurity
- The US Army is using a controversial facial-recognition technology that uses images from social media to identify people, documents show | Business Insider
- The Surveillance State That the U.S. Left Behind in Afghanistan | New Republic
- Why college students need to use a VPN — and how to pick the right one | USA Today
- An Explosion in Geofence Warrants Threatens Privacy Across the US | WIRED
- Data privacy laws in the US protect profit but prevent sharing data for public good – people want the opposite | The Conversation
- A Technical Explainer on Apple’s Concerning Privacy Changes | New America
- Normalizing Surveillance | Lawfare
- Apple delays plans to roll out CSAM detection in iOS 15 | TechCrunch
- Defenders of patron Privacy: After challenging the Patriot Act, four librarians reflect on privacy in the digital age | American Libraries
More privacy news is available at the Voices for Privacy blog.
First Amendment, Free Speech, & Civil Liberties
- Supreme Court Struggles With Campus Speech Question in Recent Decision | Intellectual Freedom Blog
- GOP bans on school masks draw federal civil rights challenges | Politico
- Are Censures of Politicians a Form of Free Speech or a Threat to It? | The New York Times
- Divided Supreme Court leaves Texas abortion law in place | PBS News / AP News
- Federal judge says Alabama laws against panhandling violate 1st Amendment | Advance Local
- Colorado judge reopens lawsuit of Muslim inmate alleging First Amendment violations | Denver Gazette
- Updated: Virginia Supreme Court rejects Loudoun Schools’ appeal to reinstate suspended teacher | Loudoun Times-Mirror
- Settlement reached in ACLU’s First Amendment lawsuit against Woonsocket mayor | Boston Globe
- We Work at the A.C.L.U. Here’s What We Think About Vaccine Mandates. | The New York Times
- Perspective: Protect assembly and petition by preserving listening at public meetings | Freedom Forum
Net Neutrality & Broadband
- New PLA Survey Highlights Role of Libraries in Digital Equity | American Libraries
- Infrastructure Bill Passed by Senate Includes Historic, Bipartisan Broadband Provisions | Pew Charitable Trusts
Copyright
Academic Freedom & Campus Speech
- New legislation puts into question what universities can and cannot teach | Iowa State Daily
- Tracking Attacks on Scholars’ Speech | Inside Higher Ed
- The Limitations of FIRE’s Database | Inside Higher Ed
Social Media
- YouTube suspends payments to Brazilian accounts over election disinformation | Reuters
- The rise of Rumble, the conservative alternative to YouTube | Deseret News
- Texas Senate Passes Bill That Would Punish Social Media Companies For Alleged Political Censorship | Houston Public Media
- About half of Americans use social media to follow COVID-19 vaccine news | Pew Research Center
Journalism & Media
- Partisan divides in media trust widen, driven by a decline among Republicans | Pew Research Center
- Beyond Atonement: CJR looks back at its coverage of race over six decades | Columbia Journalism Review
Information Literacy & Disinformation
- Disinformation in a time of Covid-19: Anti-vaxxer media coverage | Maverick Citizen
- Truth Seekers Summit: ‘Weapons of Mass Disinformation’ | Rolling Stone
- Reddit Moderators Demand The Platform Take Action Against Covid Disinformation | Forbes
- Conservative hoaxers face record $5.1 million fine for election robocalls that spread disinformation | WLWT
- How can we use technology to weed out online disinformation? | The Star
- Fighting vaccine disinformation is crucial to ending the pandemic | CNN
International News
- Canadian ISP takes web-blocking debate to the country’s Supreme Court | Complete Music Update
- The CCTV that has to spot a face in 22 million | The Times
- First they came for Kama Sutra | Times of India
- Egypt orders removing books, publications inciting violence from mosques nationwide in 2 weeks | Egypt Today
- Banned and blocked: LGBT+ websites censored from Russia to Indonesia | Thomson Reuters Foundation
- The Israeli Activists Putting Orthodox Women Back in the Picture | Haaretz
- Russia’s Internet censors demands Google, Apple remove an opposition app from their stores | The Washington Post
Around the Web
- Book Review: You Can’t Say That! | Intellectual Freedom Blog
- The New Puritans | The Atlantic
- Hate crimes in US rise to highest level in 12 years, says FBI report | The Guardian
- An App Called Libby and the Surprisingly Big Business of Library E-books | The New Yorker
- Advancing the Autistic Community: Three Helpful Approaches | NISO
- An Illustrated Guide to Post-Orwellian Censorship | MIT Press Reader
- ‘I Helped Destroy People’: Terry Albury, an idealistic F.B.I. agent, grew so disillusioned by the war on terror that he was willing to leak classified documents — and go to prison for doing it. | The New York Times
- Censorship discussion overshadows new Pasadena Unified coronavirus protocols | Pasadena Star News
- Virginia school board to pay $1.3 million in transgender student’s suit | NBC News
- 3rd conservative radio host who condemned vaccines dies of Covid | Politico
- FBI Bankrolled Publisher of Occult Neo-Nazi Books, Feds Claim | Vice
- Danbury officer suspended for remarks during library run-in | AP
- The Only Bookstore on Najafi Street | Atlas Obscura
- Mrs. Kasha Davis brings ‘Drag Story Hour’ to TV with new kids’ show | Rochester City Newspaper
- Ypsilanti mother pens memoir, “I Was a Stripper Librarian: From Cardigans to G-Strings” | Michigan Live
- Netflix’s ‘Lady Chatterly’s Lover’ Ushers in a New Era of Horny Literary Adaptations | InsideHook
ALA News
- Robert (Jay) Malone named executive director of ACRL
- National survey finds libraries play expanded role in digital equity, bridging gaps in access to technology
- Run for ALA office by filing an electronic petition
- ALA Announces New Endowment Trustees
- Scholarship Application Now Open
- Eleven libraries recognized in American Libraries’ 2021 Library Design Showcase
- ALA invites libraries to apply for Let’s Talk About It: Women’s Suffrage humanities discussion project
- Applications open for 2022 Virtual Bill Morris Seminar: Book Evaluation Training
- AASL Partners with Pokémon to Offer Pokémon Clubs
- Congressional Hispanic Caucus endorses Build America’s Libraries Act
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