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/
Wouldn’t it be nice idealists were more common...
Began reading SciFi in the 1960s, but in recent years have all but given it up, due to the drivel that gets published in the name of SciFi nowadays.
Knowing that the Baen imprint might assure me of something readable is reassuring.