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

[Brian McGUIRK]

Rights, Responsibilities & Reactions Intellectual Freedom News -

November 2021

Censorship

We’re Facing A Dangerous, Violent New Age of Comic Censorship
<https://wegotthiscovered.com/comicbooks/were-facing-a-dangerous-violent-new-age-of-comic-censorship/>
- We Got This Covered

‘Facebook Censors Jerusalem’: Campaign protests Meta’s alleged censorship
of Palestinian posts
<https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/meta-facebook-campagin-censorship-palestinian-posts>
- Middle East Eye

A Frenzy of Book Banning
<https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/12/opinion/book-bans.html?searchResultPosition=12>
- New York Times Opinion

My Book Was Censored in China. Now It’s Blacklisted — in Texas
<https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/23/books/review/far-from-the-tree-matt-krause-texas-book-blacklist-ban.html?searchResultPosition=3>
- New York Times Book Review

How 9 books started a fight over censorship and pornography in this Utah
school district
<https://www.sltrib.com/news/education/2021/11/29/how-books-started-fight/>
- Salt Lake Tribune

Big Tech Censorship of COVID Information Leads to Vaccine Hesitancy
<https://www.newsweek.com/big-tech-censorship-covid-information-leads-vaccine-hesitancy-opinion-1644051https://www.newsweek.com/big-tech-censorship-covid-information-leads-vaccine-hesitancy-opinion-1644051>
- Newsweek Opinion

First Amendment

Project Veritas and the Line Between Journalism and Political Spying
<https://www.nytimes.com/search?dropmab=false&query=first%20amendment&sort=best>
- The New York Times

Supreme Court Hears Free Speech Case on Politician’s Censure
<https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/02/us/politics/supreme-court-free-speech-censure.html?searchResultPosition=2>
- The New York Times

A Public Flagpole, a Christian Flag and the First Amendment
<https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/29/us/boston-flag-free-speech.html> - The
New York Times

State of Michigan employees told how to react to First Amendment auditors
<https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2021/11/09/michigan-first-amendment-auditors-video-public-buildings/6350167001/>
- Detroit Free Press

Is it a right to record police? Feds cite First Amendment, ask 10th Circuit
Court to agree
<https://gazette.com/premium/is-it-a-right-to-record-police-feds-cite-first-amendment-ask-10th-circuit-court/article_6aceacb2-622d-56e4-845e-95aa4f0ebf93.html>
- The Gazette

Privacy

Facebook, Citing Societal Concerns, Plans to Shut Down Facial Recognition
System
<https://www.nytimes.com/search?dropmab=false&query=privacy&sort=best> -
The New York Times

You Know the Saying: You Are the Product
<https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/02/us/politics/supreme-court-free-speech-censure.html?searchResultPosition=2>
- The New York Times

U.S. lawmakers call for privacy legislation after Reuters report on Amazon
lobbying
<https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-lawmakers-call-privacy-legislation-after-reuters-report-amazon-lobbying-2021-11-22/>
- Reuters


Diversity

Implementing diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts at conferences
<https://www.nature.com/articles/s41560-021-00926-2> - Nature

Dear White People: Here’s How to Honor Native Americans
<https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2021/11/dear-white-people-heres-how-to-honor-native-americans/>
- Mother Jones

After nixing diversity symbols, Newberg School Board fires superintendent
<https://www.statesmanjournal.com/story/news/education/2021/11/10/after-nixing-diversity-symbols-newberg-school-board-fires-superintendent/6377406001/>
- Statesman Journal

Access

Maryland police navigate new law opening access to disciplinary records
<https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2021/11/24/antons-law-makes-police-discipline-more-transparent/>
- Washington Post

Science community steps up to reform open access
<https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-03485-4> - Nature

Net Neutrality

Sen. Lindsey Graham: “I will do everything in my power” to block Biden FCC
pick
<https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/11/republicans-fight-biden-fcc-pick-gigi-sohn-claim-shell-censor-conservatives/>
-ARS Technica

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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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