Inside the Censorship and Exclusion Mess of the Hugo Awards - Various

 

Back to regular news tonight.

Because a wind storm brought down a tree yesterday and we lost power, Panzer couldn't post the news. To catch up, here's three posts about the 2024 Hugo Awards problems. There are two posts from Publishers Weekly and one from File 770. It's a complicated problem, so it makes more sense if the posts are read in order at the end of this post.

 

Panzer says, "This little kitty didn't know anything about this problem with the Awards, so he has nothing to say about it. He's just reporting these posts that clogged his news feed."

 

Note: You'll need to decide what to snack on while you read these.

 

To read post one tootle over to Resignations

To read post two tootle over to Glasgow Worldcon

To read or download post three (the report) tootle over to Censorship and Exclusion

NSA Surveillance is Making Writers Self-Censor - GalleyCat

They're know everything!

Panzer and I were out in the Catosphere today and we stumbled across some interesting news at our good friend GalleyCAT.

Writers are starting to see we have to be very careful about what we post online. We already have to be careful what we check out at the library and what we research on Google. Now we have to be careful what we post on social media online.

These are very scary times my bad boy lives in!

If you dare to read about the NSA, tootle over to NSA Surveillance is Making Writers Self-Censor - GalleyCat

Smashwords: PayPal Revises Policies to Allow Legal Fiction

 Have you heard the news?

Paypal decided to do an about face on their censorship policy that we told you about earlier this month.

Read all about it at  Smashwords: PayPal Revises Policies to Allow Legal Fiction: In a victory for free speech, PayPal today announced plans to revise their content policies to allow Smashwords writers full freedom to pub...

Panzer was out in the catosphere by himself again today. He says it's worth being grounded for the day to find this story!