I'm sure Woody Allen will find another publisher, and I wouldn't have read his book anyhow, but this is a group of people trying to take away our freedom of choice. Am I wrong to be a little upset?
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03-06-2020, 06:09 PM #1Mighty Member
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Hachette employees are now censors.
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03-06-2020, 07:11 PM #2Invincible Member
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l don't agree with them, but no publisher has an obligation to publish anything and nobody has taken your freedom. If they published it, and then came and took it out of your hand, then that would be messing with your rights.
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03-07-2020, 01:01 PM #3DC/Collected Editions Mod
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Woody Allen can post his entire autobiography online any time he wants, so his right to free speech is not being infringed in the slightest.
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The role of a publisher is at least as much to select what not to publish as to select what to publish.
«Speaking generally, it is because of the desire of the tragic poets for the marvellous that so varied and inconsistent an account of Medea has been given out» (Diodorus Siculus, The Library of History [4.56.1])
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03-07-2020, 01:54 PM #5Mighty Member
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Select only what a group of people decide is "correct".
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03-07-2020, 01:57 PM #6Astonishing Member
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Its called buisness. You want their aid in getting you money, you play by their rules. Originally Posted by williamtheday
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03-07-2020, 02:00 PM #7Extraordinary Member
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Publishers decide to not publish at least a hundred manuscripts for each single manuscript that is published. Originally Posted by williamtheday
What is it that makes Woody Allen's manuscript worthy of being published? Just because he is white and rich and famous doesn't mean any publisher is obligated to publish him.«Speaking generally, it is because of the desire of the tragic poets for the marvellous that so varied and inconsistent an account of Medea has been given out» (Diodorus Siculus, The Library of History [4.56.1])
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03-07-2020, 03:05 PM #8BANNED
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Not even remotely. Originally Posted by williamtheday
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03-07-2020, 08:37 PM #9Invincible Member
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And what about Trader Joe's? Every time I go there, they stop selling something I like. They are taking away my freedom of choice!
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03-07-2020, 08:43 PM #10Unadjusted Human on CBR
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So Hachette...did a hatchet job to Woody Allens book...
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03-07-2020, 09:54 PM #11The Superior One
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Considering Woody's checkered past, I have a compromise solution -
They publish the book and Woody agrees to give his share of the profits to child abuse and exploitation prevention charities, everyone wins, unless Woody is motivated by greed rather than telling his story that is."So you've come to the end now alive but dead inside."
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03-08-2020, 11:31 AM #12Extraordinary Member
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They have the freedom to publish or not publish what they want. Not sure what that has to do with censorship. Originally Posted by jetengine
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03-08-2020, 11:41 AM #13Invincible Member
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Just to point this out...
There is actual Freedom Of Speech. That said, it's based on you being free from the government stopping you from speaking.
Freedom Of Choice/Freedom Of Expression?
Whole other can of sardines.
Even more so in a day and age where there is less of an impediment for someone to be able to put their work out for you to be able to see.
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03-08-2020, 06:11 PM #14Extraordinary Member
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If Allen really wants his story out there he has enough money to self publish it.
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03-08-2020, 07:57 PM #15The Superior One
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This is also true. People with a hell of a lot fewer resources than Woody have self-published successful books. Originally Posted by Zero Hunter
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