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

[Ekatrina Sotomayor]

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


Censorship, First Amendment & Free Speech

Britain to create regulator for internet content
<https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/12/technology/britain-internet-regulator.html>
New York Times

Tennessee's Parental Oversight of Public Libraries Act would censor books,
jail librarians
<https://pen.org/press-release/tennessee-parental-oversight-public-libraries-act-censor-books-jail-librarians/>PEN
America

Librarians could face charges for ‘age-inappropriate’ material under
proposal
<https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/03/us/missouri-libraries-sexual-books.html>
New York Times

Missouri, Florida and the criminalization of libraries
<https://www.oif.ala.org/oif/?p=19903> American Library Association

‘Academic Freedom in the Age of Trump’ poster causes controversy,
censorship concerns at UW-Milwaukee
<https://www.dailycardinal.com/article/2020/02/academic-freedom-in-the-age-of-trump-poster-causes-controversy-censorship-concerns-at-uw-milwaukee>
Daily Cardinal

The electronic closet: Investigating accusations of queer suppression on
Facebook and Instagram <https://www.oif.ala.org/oif/?p=20082>  American
Library Association


Privacy

ALA IFC forms working group to respond to facial recognition technology
<https://www.oif.ala.org/oif/?p=20122> American Library Association Office
of Intellectual Freedom Blog

Hiding in plain sight: activists don camouflage to beat Met surveillance
<https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/feb/01/privacy-campaigners-dazzle-camouflage-met-police-surveillance>
The Guardian

Super Bowl commercials while librarianing
<https://www.oif.ala.org/oif/?p=19962> American Library Association

How schools may use kids phones to track and surveil them
<https://www.cnet.com/news/how-schools-may-use-kids-phones-to-track-and-surveil-them/>
cnet.com

More than 150 academics sign letter opposing facial recognition
surveillance on college and university campuses
<https://www.masslive.com/police-fire/2020/02/more-than-150-academics-sign-letter-opposing-facial-recognition-surveillance-on-college-and-university-campuses.html>
MassLive Media



Diversity & Access

Seattle facility approved for closure
<https://www.archives.gov/press/press-releases/2020/nr20-37> National
Archives

‘Frustrated’: Tribes finally get hearing with National Archives about
<https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/frustrated-tribes-finally-get-hearing-with-national-archives-about-sand-point-facility-closure/>
Sand
Point facility closure
<https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/frustrated-tribes-finally-get-hearing-with-national-archives-about-sand-point-facility-closure/>
Seattle Times

How States Are Expanding Broadband Access
<https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/reports/2020/02/how-states-are-expanding-broadband-access>
Pew Charitable Trusts


Net Neutrality

Opinion:  We need to talk about ‘Cloud Neutrality’
<https://www.wired.com/story/we-need-to-talk-about-cloud-neutrality/>  Wired

The Obama Open Internet Vote's 5th anniversary: Time to talk about network
neutrality for Big Tech
<https://www.forbes.com/sites/washingtonbytes/2020/02/26/open-internet-orders-5th-anniversary-calls-for-renewed-action-to-preserve-openness/#7360db044a21>
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

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Ekatrina Sotomayor
Access Services Assistant
Holgate Library
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