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

[Ekatrina Sotomayor]

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

COVID-19

COVID-19 Has Widened the ‘Homework Gap’ Into a Full-Fledged Learning Gap
<https://www.edsurge.com/news/2020-06-16-covid-19-has-widened-the-homework-gap-into-a-full-fledged-learning-gap>
- EdSurge

Google and Apple’s rules for virus tracking apps sow division among states
<https://www.politico.com/news/2020/06/10/google-and-apples-rules-for-virus-tracking-apps-sow-division-among-states-312199>
- Politico

A flood of coronavirus apps are tracking us. Now it’s time to keep track of
them.
<https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/05/07/1000961/launching-mittr-covid-tracing-tracker/>
- MIT Technology Review

Schools Turn to Surveillance Tech to Prevent Covid-19 Spread
<https://www.wired.com/story/schools-surveillance-tech-prevent-covid-19-spread/>
- Wired

COVID-19 Illustrates Why Congress Must Act Now on Broadband
<https://www.uschamber.com/series/above-the-fold/covid-19-illustrates-why-congress-must-act-now-broadband>
- US Chamber of Commerce


First Amendment, Censorship, Banned Books

U.S. drops to 45 in ranking of countries based on freedom of the press
<https://www.marketwatch.com/story/us-drops-to-45-in-ranking-of-countries-based-on-freedom-of-the-press-2018-04-25>
- Marketwatch

Reporters Covering George Floyd Protests Face Rubber Bullets, Arrests
<https://variety.com/2020/tv/news/protests-journalists-ali-velshi-msnbc-arrests-1234621374/>
- Variety

Arresting Dissent: Legislative Restrictions on the Right to Protest
<https://pen.org/arresting-dissent/> - PEN America

Trump Says He'll Deploy Military To States If They Don't Stop Violent
Protests
<https://www.npr.org/2020/06/01/867420472/trump-set-address-protests-against-police-killings-in-white-house-remarks>
- NPR

Trump Orders Troops to Leave D.C. as Former Military Leaders Sound Warning
<https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/07/us/politics/trump-military-troops-protests.html>
- New York Times

Judge Rejects Trump Request for Order Blocking Bolton’s Memoir
<https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/20/us/politics/john-bolton-book-ruling.html?auth=login-email&campaign_id=9&emc=edit_nn_20200622&instance_id=19603&login=email&nl=the-morning&regi_id=111829498&segment_id=31531&te=1&user_id=812285beb497629cc6a072f620eedba1>
- New York Times

Trump calls on Supreme Court, governors to ban flag burning
<https://www.wthr.com/article/trump-calls-supreme-court-governors-ban-flag-burning>
- WTHR

From Bumper Stickers to T-Shirts, Confederate Flags Now Officially
Off-Limits for Marines
<https://www.military.com/daily-news/2020/06/05/bumper-stickers-t-shirts-confederate-flags-now-officially-off-limits-marines.html>
- Military.com

Facebook will start labeling pages and posts from state-controlled media
<https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/04/media/facebook-state-media-label/index.html>
- CNN Business

Fight Censorship During Rainbow Book Month and Beyond
<http://www.ilovelibraries.org/article/fight-censorship-during-rainbow-book-month-and-beyond>
I Love Libraries

The Short, Fraught History of the ‘Thin Blue Line’ American Flag
<https://www.themarshallproject.org/2020/06/08/the-short-fraught-history-of-the-thin-blue-line-american-flag>
The Marshall Project

For black NASCAR fans, the Confederate flag ban is welcome but long overdue
<https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/14/us/nascar-black-fans-confederate-flag/index.html>
- CNN

Arizona May Criminalize Recording Cops in Public
<https://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2016-01-11/arizona-may-criminalize-recording-cops-in-public>
- U.S. News & World Report


Privacy

The EARN IT Act Won't Protect Children, But It Will Destroy Digital Privacy
<https://www.fee.org/articles/the-earn-it-act-wont-protect-children-but-it-will-destroy-digital-privacy/>
- Foundation for Economic Education

The EARN IT Bill Is the Government’s Plan to Scan Every Message Online
<https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/03/earn-it-bill-governments-not-so-secret-plan-scan-every-message-online>
- Electronic Frontier Foundation

Debate on surveillance and privacy heats up as U.S. protests rage
<https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-minneapolis-police-privacy-trfn/debate-on-surveillance-and-privacy-heats-up-as-u-s-protests-rage-idUSKBN23902V>
- Reuters

U.S. Watched George Floyd Protests in 15 Cities Using Aerial Surveillance
<https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/19/us/politics/george-floyd-protests-surveillance.html>
- New York Times

How to Protest Safely in the Age of Surveillance
<https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-protest-safely-surveillance-digital-privacy/>
- Wired

Zoom won't fully encrypt free calls so it can work with the FBI
<https://decrypt.co/31110/zoom-wont-encrypt-free-calls-so-it-can-work-with-the-fbi>
-
Decrypt

IBM gets out of facial recognition business, calls on Congress to advance
policies tackling racial injustice
<https://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/08/ibm-gets-out-of-facial-recognition-business-calls-on-congress-to-advance-policies-tackling-racial-injustice.html>
- CNBC

Boston becomes largest city on East Coast to ban face surveillance
<https://www.aclum.org/en/news/boston-becomes-largest-city-east-coast-ban-face-surveillance#:~:text=Boston%20becomes%20largest%20city%20on%20East%20Coast%20to%20ban%20face%20surveillance,-June%2024%2C%202020&text=The%20Boston%20City%20Council%20today,the%20world%20to%20do%20so.>
- ACLU


Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

Statements From Libraries and Library Organizations Re: Racism and
Increased Violence
<https://www.infodocket.com/2020/06/01/statements-from-library-organizations-re-racism-and-increased-violence/>
- Library Journal

ALA statement affirming the rights of transgender people
<http://www.ala.org/news/press-releases/2020/06/ala-statement-affirming-rights-transgender-people>
- ALA

Asian-Americans are using Slack groups to explain racism to their parents
<https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/06/22/1004312/asian-americans-are-using-slack-groups-to-explain-racism-to-their-parents/>
- MIT Technology Review

Artificial Intelligence researchers say scientific publishers help
perpetuate racist algorithms
<https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/06/23/1004336/tiktok-teens-kpop-stans-trump-resistance-its-complicated/>
- MIT Technology Review

Ridding Schools of Reading Trauma
<https://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/blogs/the-scoop/116407/> - American
Libraries Magazine

Weeding Out Racism’s Invisible Roots: Rethinking Children’s Classics |
Opinion
<https://www.slj.com/?detailStory=weeding-out-racisms-invisible-roots-rethinking-childrens-classics-libraries-diverse-books>
- School Library Journal

National Museum of African American History & Culture Releases “Talking
About Race” Web Portal
<https://nmaahc.si.edu/about/news/national-museum-african-american-history-and-culture-releases-talking-about-race-web>
- NMAAHC


Access & Net Neutrality

9 Million Students Lack Home Internet for Remote Learning
<https://www.govtech.com/network/9-Million-Students-Lack-Home-Internet-for-Remote-Learning.html>
- Government Technology

Opinion:  America’s digital divide is an emergency
<https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/06/23/americas-digital-divide-is-an-emergency/>
- Washington Post

College Programs in Prisons Go Remote
<https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2020/06/18/college-programs-prisons-adapt-covid>
- Inside Higher Ed


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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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