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July 2021

Censorship

Does Conservative 'Bias' And 'Censorship' Exist On Social Media Platforms?
<https://www.tpr.org/podcast/the-source/2021-07-19/does-conservative-bias-and-censorship-exist-on-social-media-platforms>,
Texas Public Radio

Welcome to TikTok’s endless cycle of censorship and mistakes
<https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/07/13/1028401/tiktok-censorship-mistakes-glitches-apologies-endless-cycle/>,
MIT Technology Review

Apple ‘enabling government censorship’ of LGBT+ apps around the world,
report alleges
<https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/07/17/apple-lgbt-apps-censored/>, Pink News

First Amendment

A Major Supreme Court First Amendment Decision Could Be At Risk
<https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2021/07/13/major-supreme-court-first-amendment-decision-is-risk/>,
Washington Post

Constitutional lawyers call Trump’s First Amendment defense against Jan. 6
lawsuits ‘spurious
<https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/legal-issues/first-amendment-defense-trump-lawsuit/2021/07/09/caadc64c-e038-11eb-9f54-7eee10b5fcd2_story.html>’,
Washington Post

Supreme Court Rules Cheerleaders F-Bombs are Protected by the 1st Amendmen
<https://www.npr.org/2021/06/23/1001382019/supreme-court-rules-cheerleaders-f-bombs-are-protected-by-the-first-amendment>t,
NPR

Give Me a $#@%—SCOTUS Bolsters First Amendment in Cheerleader Case
<https://news.bloomberglaw.com/securities-law/give-me-a-scotus-bolsters-first-amendment-in-cheerleader-case>,
Bloomberg Law

What Cops Understand About Copyright Filters: They Prevent Legal Speech
<https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/07/what-cops-understand-about-copyright-filters-they-prevent-legal-speech>,
Electronic Frontier Foundation

Judge tears Florida’s social media law to shreds for violating First
Amendment
<https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/07/judge-tears-floridas-social-media-law-to-shreds-for-violating-first-amendment/>,
Ars Technica

Biden Hater’s Banners That Town Called Obscene Can Stay Up, Court Rules
<https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/27/nyregion/nj-biden-signs-profanity.html?smid=url-share>,
New York Times

Trump sues tech firms for blocking him, and fund-raises off it
<https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/07/us/politics/trump-lawsuit-facebook-google-twitter.html?smid=url-share>,
New York Times

Supreme Court Backs Donor Privacy for California Charities
<https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/01/us/supreme-court-donor-privacy.html?smid=url-share>,
New York Times

Two Justices Say Supreme Court Should Reconsider Landmark Libel Decision
<https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/02/us/supreme-court-libel.html?smid=url-share>,
New York Times

The Biden administration should take the First Amendment as seriously as
Facebook misinformation
<https://www.theverge.com/22585152/biden-white-house-facebook-vaccine-misinformation-section-230-first-amendment>,
The Verge

‘First Amendment auditors’ aim to cancel cops via YouTube
<https://nypost.com/2021/07/24/first-amendment-auditors-aim-to-cancel-cops-via-youtube/?utm_source=url_sitebuttons&utm_medium=site%20buttons&utm_campaign=site%20buttons>,
New York Post

Section 230 critics are forgetting about the First Amendment
<https://news.google.com/articles/CBMiZGh0dHBzOi8vd3d3LmNqci5vcmcvdGhlX21lZGlhX3RvZGF5L3NlY3Rpb24tMjMwLWNyaXRpY3MtYXJlLWZvcmdldHRpbmctYWJvdXQtdGhlLWZpcnN0LWFtZW5kbWVudC5waHDSAQA?hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US%3Aen>,
Columbia Journalism Review

Privacy

Weak US Privacy Law Hurts America’s Global Standing
<https://www.wired.com/story/weak-us-privacy-law-hurts-americas-global-standing/>,
Wired

How Fear of Government Surveillance Influences Our Behavior
<https://lithub.com/how-fear-of-government-surveillance-influences-our-behavior/>,
Literary Hub

How the HIPAA Law Works and Why People Get It Wrong
<https://www.nytimes.com/article/hipaa-law.html?searchResultPosition=4>,
New York Times

QR Codes Are Here to Stay. So Is the Tracking They Allow
<https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/26/technology/qr-codes-tracking.html?smid=url-share>,
New York Times

The Assault on Our Privacy Is Being Conducted in Private
<https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/13/opinion/data-privacy-rights.html?smid=url-share>,
New York Times

Instagram Debuts New Safety Settings For Teenagers
<https://www.npr.org/2021/07/27/1020753541/instagram-debuts-new-safety-settings-for-teenagers>,
NPR

Zoom Agrees To Settle A Privacy Lawsuit For $85 Million
<https://www.npr.org/2021/08/01/1023468165/zoom-agrees-to-settle-a-privacy-lawsuit-for-85-million>,
NPR


Diversity

Have Colorado educators cracked the code to digital diversity?
<https://pamplinmedia.com/pt/9-news/516567-411076-have-colorado-educators-cracked-the-code-to-digital-diversity->,
Portland Tribune

Opinion: A changing, better Oregon Way includes diversity
<https://katu.com/news/local/opinion-a-changing-better-oregon-way-includes-diversity>,
KATU

Google’s Latest Diversity Report Shows Jump in Departures Among Women of
Color
<https://www.theverge.com/2021/7/2/22560628/google-diversity-report-departures-black-women>,
The Verge

A Former Sony Employee Says She Was a Diversity “Token.” Shes Suing for
Discrimination
<https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/venessawong/sony-racist-discrimination-lawsuit>,
Buzzfeed News


Access

Access to Technology is Changing the U.S. Education System for Good
<https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2021/07/25/technology-changing-how-kids-learn-teachers-teach-education-system/7936443002/>,
USA Today

Newsom asks Biden to ensure Pentagon OKs use of satellite data for wildfire
program
<https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2021-07-30/newsom-asks-biden-to-ensure-pentagon-continues-to-provide-access-to-military-satellite-information>,
Los Angeles Times

Net Neutrality

Net neutrality battle looms
<https://www.axios.com/net-neutrality-battle-looms-biden-telecom-b1b5c45f-607a-45e4-acfc-e3fc517c47d9.html>,
Axios

Biden’s executive order puts net neutrality back in the spotlight
<https://www.theverge.com/2021/7/9/22570567/biden-net-neutrality-competition-eo>,
The Verge

Biden Urges More Scrutiny of Big Businesses, Such as Tech Giants
<https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/09/business/biden-big-business-executive-order.html?smid=url-share>,
New York Times

ISPs spent $235 million on lobbying and donations, “more than $320,000 a day
<https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/07/isps-spent-235-million-on-lobbying-and-donations-more-than-320000-a-day/>,
Ars Technica

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