[Libs-Or] JANUARY 2021 Rights, Responsibilities & Reactions: Intellectual Freedom News

[Ekatrina Sotomayor]

Rights, Responsibilities & Reactions Intellectual Freedom News - JANUARY
2021

First Amendment:  Protests, Censorship, & Freedom of the Press

How one of America’s ugliest days unraveled inside and outside the Capitol
<https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/interactive/2021/capitol-insurrection-visual-timeline/>
-
Washington Post

How the Attack on the Capitol Happened, From Planning to Siege to Arrests
<https://www.gq.com/story/wednesday-capitol-attack-summary> - GQ

A day of crisis at the US Capitol, fact-checked
<https://www.politifact.com/article/2021/jan/06/day-crisis-us-capitol-fact-checked/>
-
Politifact

Unlawful assembly declared at Oregon Capitol as pro-Trump mob storms U.S.
Congress
<https://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-northwest-news/2021/01/protest-set-for-oregon-capitol-as-trump-stages-dc-rally-lawmakers-convene-to-confirm-electoral-college-vote.html>
-
Oregon Live

US Police Weigh Officer Discipline After Rally, Capitol Riot
<https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2021-01-24/us-police-weigh-officer-discipline-after-rally-capitol-riot>
- US News & World Report

ALA condemns violence on Capitol Hill, calls for advocacy
<http://www.ala.org/news/press-releases/2021/01/ala-condemns-violence-capitol-hill-calls-advocacy>
- ALA

New Jersey Library Association Statement Following January 6, 2021 the
Attack on Congress
<https://www.njla.org/assets/docs/NJLA%20Statement%20about%20010621.pdf>  -
New Jersey Library Association

Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler, an App That Drew Trump Supporters
<https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/09/technology/apple-google-parler.html?smid=em-share>
- New York Times

Twitter CEO defends Trump ban, warns of dangerous precedent
<https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-business-jack-dorsey-843c3e5fb72c0cfb89c1fd1132a525d8>
- Associated Press

Tech companies cutting off Parler could be a "kiss of death" for online
home of far-right extremists
<https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tech-companies-cut-off-parler-kiss-of-death-online-home-far-right-extremists/>
-
CBS News

Opinion:  Have Trump's Lies. Wrecked Free Speech?
<https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/06/opinion/trump-lies-free-speech.html> -
New York Times

Why the First Amendment can't protect Trump on Twitter or save Parler
<https://www.cnet.com/news/why-the-first-amendment-cant-protect-trump-on-twitter-or-save-parler/>
- CNET

January 2020 Tuesday Topic: Booksellers, The First Amendment, and
Controversial Texts
<https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#search/intellectual+freedom/FMfcgxwKkbrQdTtGzVPGBKpkdcjXcgCS?projector=1&messagePartId=0.1>
- OLA Intellectual Freedom Committee

Are Anti-Racism Book Challenges On The Rise?
<https://www.oif.ala.org/oif/?p=24322> - American Library Association

Amazon pulls white supremacist novel The Turner Diaries alongside QAnon
purge
<https://www.theverge.com/2021/1/12/22227049/amazon-the-turner-diaries-q-anon-purge-removal-capitol-attack>
- The Verge

Powell’s responds to protests over right-wing agitator Andy Ngo’s book: ‘We
carry a lot of books we find abhorrent’
<https://www.oregonlive.com/books/2021/01/powells-responds-to-protests-over-right-wing-agitator-andy-ngos-book-we-carry-a-lot-of-books-we-find-abhorrent.html>
- Oregon Live

The COVID-19 Pandemic’s Devastating Toll on Journalism
<https://pen.org/the-covid-19-pandemic-devastating-toll-on-journalism/> - PEN
America

PEN America Publishes First-Ever Guide for Artists at Risk
<https://pen.org/press-release/pen-america-publishes-first-ever-guide-for-artists-at-risk/>
- PEN America

The Coronavirus Crackdown on the Media Made 2020 a Terrible Year for Press
Freedom and Journalists Worldwide
<https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/12/30/press-media-freedom-2020-journalists-covid-19-pandemic/>
- Foreign Policy

Rising Up in Protest: A Year in Photos
<https://foreignpolicy.com/slideshow/best-photos-of-2020-world-protests/> -
Foreign Policy

Privacy

Hacking 'Likely' Came From Russia, US Says in Belated Statement
<https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/05/us/politics/us-russia-hacking.html> -
New York Times

How the Covid-19 Pandemic affected our Privacy in 2020
<https://www.vox.com/recode/22189727/2020-pandemic-ruined-digital-privacy>
- Vox

WhatsApp Alternatives Signal, Telegram Grow in Popularity after App Updates
Privacy Policy
<https://www.newsweek.com/whatsapp-privacy-policy-update-alternative-secure-chat-apps-signal-telegram-1560084>
- Newsweek

These 6 browser extensions will protect your privacy online
<https://techcrunch.com/2021/01/10/these-6-browser-extensions-will-immediately-improve-your-privacy-online/>
- Tech Crunch

Diversity

ALA 2021 Youth Media Awards <https://ala.unikron.com/> - ALA Youth Media
Awards

Read Native Challenge 2021 <https://ailanet.org/readnative21/>  - American
Indian Library Association

2021 Rise: A Feminist Book Project List
<https://risefeministbooks.wordpress.com/current-book-list/?fbclid=IwAR0xnUAWiR9K3kuDIYXuH4O3j3hT-mhvefAfWPyunMoYkxPqbQLpP94iFBc>
- Rise: A Feminist Book Project for Ages 0-18

Donald Trump executive order banning diversity training suspended by Labor
Departmen
<https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2021/01/07/trump-diversity-training-ban-labor-department-suspends-executive-order/6586373002/>t
- USA Today

7 months after George Floyd’s death, corporations are still ‘diversity
washing’ instead of making actual change
<https://www.businessinsider.com/diversity-washing-greenwashing-george-floyd-corporations-black-lives-matter-2021-1>s
- Business Insider

AASL, ALA, and 48 state-level school library associations post letter to
President-Elect Biden
<https://knowledgequest.aasl.org/aasl-ala-and-48-state-level-school-library-associations-post-letter-to-president-elect-biden/>
- Knowledge Quest

What do dress codes in the workplace signal about diversity and inclusion
<https://www.bizjournals.com/nashville/news/2021/01/08/what-do-dress-codes-in-the-workplace-signal-about.html>?
- Nashville Business Journal


Access & Net Neutrality

Hong Kong protest-related website says user’s access blocked
<https://www.reuters.com/article/hongkong-security-website/hong-kong-protest-related-website-says-users-access-blocked-idUSL4N2JL02J>-
Reuters

Covid-19 relief package will help families in need of internet access
<https://www.consumerreports.org/broadband-access/covid-19-relief-package-will-help-families-in-need-of-internet-access/>
- Consumer Reports

A Quiet and ‘Unsettling’ Pandemic Toll: Students Who’ve Fallen Off the Grid
<https://www.npr.org/2020/12/29/948866982/a-quiet-and-unsettling-pandemic-toll-students-whove-fallen-off-the-grid>
- NPR

Defending the Fifth Freedom
<https://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/2021/01/04/defending-fifth-freedom-information-access-prisons/>
- American Libraries Magazine

Democrats victory in Georgia Senate runoff could save net neutrality
<https://www.theverge.com/2021/1/6/22216843/georgia-runoff-net-neutrality-fcc-jon-ossoff-raphael-warnock-democrats-senate>
- The Verge

Comcast data cap blasted by lawmakers as it expands into 12 more states
<https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/01/comcast-data-cap-blasted-by-lawmakers-as-it-expands-into-12-more-states/>
-  Ars Technica

Media Literacy:

ALA releases free practitioners' guide, webinar series on adult media
literacy education
<http://www.ala.org/news/member-news/2020/12/ala-releases-free-practitioners-guide-webinar-series-adult-media-literacy>
- American Library Association

News, fake news and "alternative facts": tips for evaluating information
<https://multcolib.org/blog/20201117/news-fake-news-and-alternative-facts-%E2%80%8Btips-evaluating-information>
- Multnomah County Library

Poynter's International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN)
<https://www.poynter.org/ifcn/> - Poynter

Media Literacy Now - Resources for Educators and Parents
<https://medialiteracynow.org/resources-for-teachers/> -
Medialiteracynow.org

Information Literacy
<https://www.lynda.com/Higher-Education-tutorials/Information-Literacy/368046-2.html?org=multcolib.org>
- Lynda.com



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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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