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1 posted on 02/18/2021 8:39:18 PM PST by tbw2
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THE CONTROVERSY ABOUT BAEN’S BAR
by Eric Flint | Feb 17, 2021
https://ericflint.net/information/controversy-about-baens-bar/


2 posted on 02/18/2021 8:39:31 PM PST by tbw2
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And it now seems that this hit piece against Baen Books, which is one of the last big scifi publishers with conservative authors in their portfolio, was the intentional start of deplatforming them like Parler.

“Yesterday some nobody, wannabe writer, social justice twit released a hit piece “expose” about how posters on Baen’s Bar were fomenting insurrection or some such nonsense.

It was the usual bullshit hit piece (the sad part is, by saying the usual, half the country immediately knows exactly what I’m talking about). It was lots of pearl clutching over regular people not toeing their arbitrary political lines, misquotes, errors, quotes taken out of context, and some flat out lies.

However, this was clearly part of a coordinated attack in order to materially harm our business, because immediately after the hit piece was released complaints were filed with the various internet companies Baen uses for services to pressure them into kicking us off the internet. This hit piece was presented as “evidence”.

Without going into details the companies then contacted Baen about these “serious allegations” so last night Baen temporarily took down the Bar forum to protect the rest of the company from being deplatformed.”

Revenge of the Baen, the Jason Sanford Report, and the Quest for Justice (or is it Vengeance?)
https://poweredbyrobots.com/2021/02/18/revenge-of-the-baen-the-jason-sanford-report-and-the-quest-for-justice-or-is-it-vengeance/


3 posted on 02/18/2021 8:41:34 PM PST by tbw2
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Voltaire, the great gadfly writer of the Enlightenment, said ‘ I may not like your ideas, but I will defend to the death your right to say them’. It became a core value of America, this First Amendment belief.

The left has become way to successful at crashing free speech. This attack on Baen Publishing is nothing but an attempt to crash any dissent in the culture , even in the ghetto outlying realm of science fiction!

8 posted on 02/19/2021 12:09:49 AM PST by Nateman (Keep Liberty Alive! Article V)
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