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by deogeo
2444 days ago
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> If a book is harmful to a publisher's brand because of social/PR/profit ramifications, then it makes sense for them to drop it. That's not a free speech issue. Depends. If you limit free speech considerations to only the law, then no. But if you expand it to which ideas are not allowed to spread, regardless of how they are suppressed, then it is. For example, being fired after making a comic the sponsors of a newspaper don't like [1]. Then there was the totally "voluntary" Comics Code Authority, without whose permission it was at one time impossible to sell comics in the US. The Motion Picture Production Code [3] was similar. To call that "not a free speech issue" is to view free speech very narrowly. [1] https://www.kcci.com/article/long-time-iowa-farm-cartoonist-... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comics_Code_Authority [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion_Picture_Production_Code |
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