[Libs-Or] NOVEMBER 2020 Rights, Responsibilities & Reactions: Intellectual Freedom News

[Ekatrina Sotomayor]

Rights, Responsibilities & Reactions: Intellectual Freedom News - NOVEMBER
2020

Censorship

Twitter censors Trump's tweets about "disappearing" ballots
<https://nypost.com/2020/11/04/twitter-censors-trumps-tweets-about-disappearing-ballots/>
- New York Post

Baptist Couple Ask Court to Ban Book From Son's School
<https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/north-carolina/articles/2020-11-10/baptist-couple-ask-court-to-ban-book-from-sons-school>
- U.S. News & World Report
In Burbank schools, a book-banning debate over how to teach antiracism
<https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2020-11-12/burbank-unified-challenges-books-including-to-kill-a-mockingbird>
- Los Angeles Times5 books temporarily removed from reading list for
Burbank schools amid outcry from parents
<https://abc7.com/education/to-kill-a-mockingbird-4-other-novels-stir-outcry-in-burbank-schools/7936504/>
ABC7.com

North Carolina Lawsuit Challenges The Poet X Over Religious Viewpoint
<https://ncac.org/news/poet-x-lawsuit> - National Coalition Against
CensorshipBook 'White Fragility' banned from Florida high school after
parent complaints
<https://www.thecollegefix.com/book-white-fragility-banned-from-florida-high-school-after-parent-complaints/>
- The College FixEXCLUSIVE-Vietnam threatens to shut down Facebook over
censorship requests - source
<https://www.reuters.com/article/vietnam-facebook-shutdown/exclusive-vietnam-threatens-to-shut-down-facebook-over-censorship-requests-source-idUSL1N2I603T>
- Reuters'Welcome To The Party, Zoom': Video App's Rules Lead To
Accusations Of Censorship
<https://www.npr.org/2020/11/23/937336309/welcome-to-the-party-zoom-video-apps-rules-lead-to-accusations-of-censorship>
- NPR

Protests, First Amendment

Activists Turn Facial Recognition Tools Against the Police
<https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/21/technology/facial-recognition-police.html>
- New York Times

Protesters sue over Detroit police response; city countersues
<https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/detroit-city/2020/11/09/aclu-protesters-sue-detroit-police/6187305002/>
- Detroit News

Parlez-vous Free Speech? <https://www.oif.ala.org/oif/?p=23600> - ALA
Intellectual Freedom Blog

Clearview AI’s First Amendment Theory Threatens Privacy—and Free Speech, Too
<https://slate.com/technology/2020/11/clearview-ai-first-amendment-illinois-lawsuit.html>
- Slate Magazine

Professor Claims School Violated his First Amendment Rights by Punishing
him for Misgendering a Student
<https://www.foxnews.com/us/professor-continues-legal-fight-gender-pronoun-university>
- Fox News

Privacy

Zoom lied to users about end-to-end encryption for years, FTC says
<https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/11/zoom-lied-to-users-about-end-to-end-encryption-for-years-ftc-says/>
- Ars Technica

Biden Administration Cybersecurity Data Protection Law
<https://slate.com/technology/2020/11/biden-administration-cybersecurity-data-protection-law.html>
- Slate Magazine

How the NYPD obtains people’s personal data with no oversight
<https://nypost.com/2020/11/16/how-the-nypd-gets-peoples-personal-data-with-no-oversight/>
- New York Post

Three places where data is on the ballot this November
<https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/10/26/1011184/data-propositions-us-elections-california-michigan-massachusetts/>
- MIT Technology Review

Michigan voters approve warrant requirement for electronic data searches
<https://www.jurist.org/news/2020/11/michigan-voters-approve-warrant-requirement-for-electronic-data-searches/>
- The Jurist

Over 2,000 law enforcement agencies have iPhone encryption-breaking tools
<https://appleinsider.com/articles/20/10/25/over-2000-law-enforcement-agencies-have-iphone-encryption-breaking-tools>
- Apple Insider



Diversity

How a BC library's Drag Queen Story Hour turned into a nationwide fight for
intellectual freedom
<https://www.cbc.ca/radio/docproject/how-a-b-c-library-s-drag-queen-story-hour-turned-into-a-nationwide-fight-for-intellectual-freedom-1.5786657>
- CBC

ALA Statement on Executive Order on Combating Race and Sex Stereotyping
<https://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/blogs/the-scoop/ala-statement-on-executive-order-on-combating-race-and-sex-stereotyping/>
- American Libraries Magazine

‘Words matter’: Why the UC Berkeley Library is embracing another term for
‘illegal aliens’ <https://news.lib.berkeley.edu/words-matter> - Berkeley
Library

Kamala Harris Gender Pronouns Bio Explained
<https://www.popbuzz.com/life/lgbtq/kamala-harris-gender-pronouns-bio-explained/>
- Pop Buzz

26 Children's Books About LGBTQ+ Heroes & Events
<https://www.romper.com/life/childrens-books-about-lgbtq-heroes-events-that-changed-the-world-35212961>
- Romper.com

BBC Studios Sets 20% Diversity Target For All New Productions
<https://deadline.com/2020/11/bbc-studios-diversity-target-1234623162/> -
Deadline.com

Access & Net Neutrality

Fahrenheit 412: New rule bans Allegheny County Jail inmates from receiving
books; reading limited to 214 select E-books
<https://www.pittsburghcurrent.com/fahrenheit-412-new-rule-bans-allegheny-county-jail-inmates-from-receiving-books-reading-limited-to-214-select-e-books/>
- Pittsburgh Current

Former FCC Chair Explains Why the Government Might Need 5G Access, Outlines
Biden Priorities
<https://www.telecompetitor.com/former-fcc-chair-makes-case-for-nationalized-5g-network-outlines-biden-priorities/>
- Telecompetitor

Snohomish County Lift Zones with free WiFi provided by Comcast will help
students participate in distance learning
<https://www.arlingtontimes.com/marketplace/snohomish-county-lift-zones-with-free-wifi-provided-by-comcast-will-help-students-participate-in-distance-learning/>
- Arlington Times

FCC Chief Who Ended Net-Neutrality says He'll Quit Jan 20
<https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/politics/2020/11/30/fcc-chief-who-ended-net-neutrality-says-hell-quit-jan-20/6464928002/>
- Detroit News

Five Reasons Why Title II Net Neutrality Is No Longer Relevant In Tech
Policy
<https://www.forbes.com/sites/roslynlayton/2020/11/12/five-reasons-why-title-ii-net-neutrality-is-no-longer-relevant-in-tech-policy/?sh=c20333e230c9>
- Forbes

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Rights, Responsibilities & Reactions is a monthly roundup of Intellectual
Freedom News compiled by the Multnomah County Library Intellectual Freedom
Committee.

We welcome suggestions of articles to include at lib.ifc at multco.us.  In
general, submissions should follow the following criteria: (1) News
articles; (2) Published in the relevant month; (3) Prioritize issues of
either local relevance or national interest.


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Ekatrina Sotomayor (she/her/hers)
Access Services Assistant
Holgate Library
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*Multnomah County operates on the ancestral homelands of the Multnomah,
Mollala, Kathlamet, Chinook, Clackamas, Tualatin Kalapuya and many other
Indigenous Nations. These Nations have become the Confederated Tribes of
Grand Ronde <https://www.grandronde.org/>, the Confederated Tribes of
Siletz Indians <http://ctsi.nsn.us/>, as well as the Chinook Nation
<http://www.chinooknation.org/> and Cowlitz Nation
<https://www.cowlitz.org/> in Washington State.** Land acknowledgements
recognize and honor the enduring relationship that Indigenous People have
with their traditional homelands. The effects of settler colonization are
still felt today and land acknowledgements are a small step down the path
towards repair, reconciliation, and cultural revitalization. *
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