Jim C. Hines' "Roundup of Some “Anonymous Protesters” (#SFWA Bulletin Links) "

[james_davis_nicoll]

The latest issue of the SFWA Bulletin went out last week while I was at BEA, including both my article about cover art and treating women as people, and the Resnick/Malzberg Dialogues, arguing against censorship and suppression. I’m not going to rehash the points I made in my own piece, but one of the many fascinating things I found in the Dialogues was the idea that the people complaining were somehow anonymous cowards sniping from the shadows.

“Anonymous.” You keep using that word…

I’ve rounded up some of the people talking about the problematic aspects of the last few issues of the Bulletin. I won’t talk about the pages and pages of discussion from the SFWA Discussion Forums, but there have been a significant number of complaints there–all of which have people’s names attached.

Comments

[kgbooklog.livejournal.com]

Wait, Malzberg isn't even a member? Why does he have a permanent soapbox in the newsletter then?

[kgbooklog.livejournal.com]

Oh wait, if it was Malzberg who used the word "anonymous", he could have been referring to the fact that he's not allowed to know what's being posted on the secret forums.