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

[Ekatrina Sotomayor]

Rights, Responsibilities & Reactions Intellectual Freedom News - DECEMBER
2020

First Amendment

Murders of Journalists Doubled in 2020
<https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/22/world/americas/mexico-journalists-killings-double.html>
- New York Times

Record number of journalists imprisoned in 2020 - report
<https://www.reuters.com/article/global-rights-journalists-int-idUSKBN28P0DZ>
- Reuters

Tech giants complicit in "industrial-scale" repression in Viet Nam
<https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2020/12/viet-nam-tech-giants-complicit/>
- Amnesty International

In 2020, Congress Threatened Our Speech and Security With the “EARN IT” Act
<https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/12/2020-congress-threatened-our-speech-and-security-earn-it-act>
- EFF

Oregon police make 4 arrests amid COVID-19 protests at Capitol
<https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/12/21/oregon-police-arrests-covid-protests-salem-capitol/4003055001/>
- USA Today

Armed Protesters Break Into Oregon State Capitol Building, Break Windows,
Assault Journalists, Hit Police With Chemical Agent
<https://deadline.com/2020/12/armed-protesters-enter-oregon-state-capitol-building-assault-police-chemical-agent-1234660385/>
- Deadline

Judge finds city of Portland in contempt of order restricting less-lethal
impact munitions during protests
<https://www.oregonlive.com/crime/2020/12/judge-finds-city-of-portland-in-contempt-of-order-restricting-less-lethal-impact-munitions-during-protests.html>
- OregonLive

Portland protests: What happened in 2020, what’s next in 2021
<https://www.koin.com/news/protests/portland-protests-what-happened-in-2020-whats-next-in-2021/>
- KOIN News

First Five: The freedom issues that aren't going away
<https://mcdowellnews.com/opinion/columnists/first-five-the-freedom-issues-that-arent-going-away/article_1f8eeda2-4ae9-11eb-8828-abba78ee842b.html>
- McDowell News

Censorship

Remember to Report Censorship for 2020! - Intellectual Freedom Blog
<https://www.oif.ala.org/oif/?p=24087>  - ALA Intellectual Freedom Blog

Burbank Superintendent Bans Use Of N-Word In Schools, Makes Five Books
Non-mandatory For Classroom Work
<https://myburbank.com/burbank-superintendent-bans-use-of-n-word-in-schools-makes-five-books-non-mandatory-for-classroom-work/>
- My Burbank

Allegheny County Jail restores policy allowing physical books delivered to
inmates
<https://www.pghcitypaper.com/pittsburgh/allegheny-county-jail-restores-policy-allowing-physical-books-delivered-to-inmates/Content?oid=18482601>
- Pittsburgh City Paper

YouTube to Remove Misleading Videos about Outcome of the Presidential
Election
<https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2020/12/09/elections-2020-youtube-remove-misleading-videos-election-results/6506325002/>
- USA Today

Privacy

What We Know About Russia's Alleged Hack Of The U.S. Government And Tech
Companies
<https://www.npr.org/2020/12/15/946776718/u-s-scrambles-to-understand-major-computer-hack-but-says-little>
- NPR

As Understanding of Russian Hacking Grows, So Does Alarm
<https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/02/us/politics/russian-hacking-government.html?campaign_id=9&emc=edit_nn_20210103&instance_id=25601&nl=the-morning&regi_id=59120542&segment_id=48251&te=1&user_id=9a69fe78aebac1ea4f9488f93447e9a8>
- New York Times

The Cost of Facebook's Monopoly is User Privacy
<https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/segments/cost-facebooks-monopoly-user-privacy-on-the-media>
- On the Media

Final NDAA Calls for the Establishment of a National Cyber Director
<https://www.nextgov.com/cybersecurity/2020/12/final-ndaa-calls-establishment-national-cyber-director/170478/>
- Nextgov

How teachers are sacrificing student privacy to stop cheating
<https://www.vox.com/recode/22175021/school-cheating-student-privacy-remote-learning>
- Vox

Student Privacy and the Fight to Keep Spying Out of Schools: Year in Review
2020
<https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/12/student-privacy-and-fight-keep-spying-out-schools-year-review-2020>
- EFF

Podcast: Facial recognition is quietly being used to control access to
housing and social services
<https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/12/02/1012901/no-face-no-service/> -
MIT Technology Review

Delete Your Old Accounts (If You Can)
<https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/blog/delete-your-old-accounts/>  - New
York Times

Diversity

Douglas County Library Board hears the results of diversity statement
investigation
<https://sierranevadaally.org/2020/12/08/douglas-county-library-board-hears-the-results-of-diversity-statement-investigation/>
- Sierra Nevada Ally

The 2020 Ultimate List of Diverse Children's Books
<http://hereweeread.com/2019/11/the-2020-ultimate-list-of-diverse-childrens-books.html>
- Here Wee Read

MCL's Best Books of 2020 <http://bestof.multcolib.org/2020/>- Multnomah
County Library

The Joy of Native Storytelling Structures
<https://diversebooks.org/joy-of-native-storytelling/>  - We Need Diverse
Books

Indigenous Representation in Comics and Graphic Novels
<https://diversebooks.org/indigenous-representation-in-comics-and-graphic-novels/>
- We Need Diverse Books

In promoting the "myth of white self-sufficiency," the "Little House" books
rewrite history
<https://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/in-promoting-the-myth-of-white-self-sufficiency-the-little-house-books-rewrite-history/16545/>
- PBS

Access & Net Neutrality

The U.S. Internet Is Being Starved of Its Potential: 2020 in Review
<https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/12/us-internet-being-starved-its-potential>
- EFF

Will Net Neutrality Have Another Chance Under Biden?
<https://www.govtech.com/network/Will-Net-Neutrality-Have-Another-Chance-Under-Biden.html>
- GovTech

Library Access Beyond English <https://www.oif.ala.org/oif/?p=23786> - ALA
Intellectual Freedom Blog


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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.


-- 
Ekatrina Sotomayor (she/her/hers)
Access Services Assistant
Holgate Library
My schedule is Wednesday/ Thursday/ Sunday


*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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