[Libs-Or] March 2020 - Rights, Responsibilities and Reactions: Intellectual Freedom News

[Ekatrina Sotomayor]

Rights, Responsibilities & Reactions Intellectual Freedom News - MARCH 2020

Censorship

Amazon bans, then reinstates, Hitler's 'Mein Kampf'
<https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/17/technology/amazon-hitler-mein-kampf.html>
-New York Times

Bored with the First Amendment, Scales on censorship
<https://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/?detailStory=Bored-with-the-First-Amendment-Scales-on-Censorship-schools-libraries>
School
Library Journal

Turkmenistan has banned use of the word 'coronavirus'
<https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/03/31/824611607/turkmenistan-has-banned-use-of-the-word-coronavirus?utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=nprblogscoronavirusliveupdates>
-NPR

First Amendment

YouTube not a 'public forum' with guaranteed free speech
<https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-51658341?intlink_from_url=https://www.bbc.com/news/topics/crr7mlg0gg3t/censorship&link_location=live-reporting-story>
- BBC News

Trump cannot block critics on Twitter federal court affirms
<https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/legal-issues/trump-cannot-block-critics-on-twitter-federal-court-affirms-in-ruling/2020/03/23/83ac302c-6d0b-11ea-a3ec-70d7479d83f0_story.html>
- Washington Post

Seattle NPR affiliate to stop airing live coronavirus briefings over
'patterns of false' information
<https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/seattle-npr-affiliate-to-stop-airing-live-coronavirus-briefings-over-pattern-of-false-information>
- Washington Examiner

KUOW statement on live White House Coronavirus Task Force briefings
<https://www.kuow.org/stories/kuow-statement-on-live-white-house-coronavirus-task-force-briefings-35a2>
-KUOW

Opinion:  It's a bad idea for journalists to censor Trump -- instead, they
can help the public identify what's true or false
<https://chicago.suntimes.com/2020/3/30/21199895/coronavirus-media-cnn-media-journalists-david-cuillier-conversation>
- Chicago Sun Times

Privacy

Data protection is about power, not just privacy
<https://www.publicknowledge.org/blog/data-protection-is-about-power-not-just-privacy/>
- Public Knowledge

EFF to Supreme Court:  Losing your phone shouldn't mean you lose your
Fourth Amendment rights
<https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/03/eff-supreme-court-losing-your-phone-shouldnt-mean-you-lose-your-fourth-amendment>
-Electronic Frontier Foundation

Government efforts to track virus through phone location data complicated
by privacy concerns
<https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/03/19/privacy-coronavirus-phone-data/>
- Washington Post

What are the rules wrapping privacy during COVID-19?
<https://techcrunch.com/2020/03/20/what-are-the-rules-wrapping-privacy-during-covid-19/>
-Tech Crunch

Trudeau leaves door open to using cell phone data to track Canadian
compliance with pandemic rules
<https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/cellphone-tracking-trudeau-covid-1.5508236>
- CBC

New York's Attorney General looks into Zoom's privacy practices
<https://nyti.ms/2UsbSym>  - New York Times

Diversity

APALA condemns rise in xenophobia and racism due to the novel coronavirus
outbreak <http://www.apalaweb.org/coronavirus-response/> - Asian Pacific
American Librarians Association

ALA seeks proposals for 2020-2021 diversity research grants
<http://www.ala.org/news/press-releases/2020/01/ala-seeks-proposals-2020-2021-diversity-research-grants>
- ALA

Remote control: civil rights lawsuit highlights how Comcast's monopoly
crushes media diversity
<https://prospect.org/power/remote-control-comcast-monopoly-crushes-diversity/>
- The American Prospect

Oregon Historical Society: Share your personal pandemic reflections
<https://katu.com/amnw/am-northwest-lifestyle-health/oregon-historical-society-share-your-personal-pandemic-reflections>
- KATU

Net Neutrality & Broadband Access

American Library Association recommends libraries leave WiFi open during
closures while continuing to follow any applicable local, state and federal
health and safety guidelines
<http://www.ala.org/news/press-releases/2020/03/american-library-association-recommends-libraries-leave-wifi-open-during>
- ALA

With schools closed, library parking lots are some families' only place for
internet
<https://www.wpr.org/schools-closed-library-parking-lots-are-some-families-only-place-internet>
- Wisconsin Public Radio

Opinion:  How parking a wireless school bus can help all students get back
to school
<https://www.google.com/amp/s/thehill.com/opinion/education/490174-how-parking-a-wireless-school-bus-can-help-all-students-get-back-to-school%3famp>-
The Hill

Internet Archive's National Emergency Library harms authors
<https://www.authorsguild.org/industry-advocacy/internet-archives-uncontrolled-digital-lending/>
- Authors Guild

Authors fume as online library 'lends' unlimited free books
<https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/03/authors-fume-as-online-library-lends-unlimited-free-books/>
- Ars Technica

Activists in Minecraft made a digital library to bypass government
censorship
<https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/activists-in-minecraft-made-a-digital-library-to-bypass-government-censorship/>
Privacy News Online blog

Working from home? Oregon pols seek ISPs aid amid outbreak
<https://pamplinmedia.com/scc/103-news/456381-372225-working-from-home-oregon-pols-seek-isps-aid-amid-outbreak>
- Pamplin Media

Health Information Kiosk available at Tyler Public Library
<https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/health-information-kiosk-available-at-tyler-public-library/ar-BB10aomE>
- KLTV

Gale and Washington State Library Support Middle School Student Reading
Development Through Large Print Books
<https://finance.yahoo.com/news/gale-washington-state-library-support-165700846.html>
- PR Newswire



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