Law

[supergee]

If we accept the usual sloppy oversimplification of ascribing sentience and purpose to collective entities, we can say that every State aspires to the condition where everything not mandatory is forbidden and vice versa. However, the lawmaking process grows so complex that some activities wind up being both (e.g., any reasonably inclusive obscenity law violates itself), and lawyers must be called in to decide which applies.

Allegedly private entities such as Google and Facebook have also reached this level of complexity, and Worldcon is getting there: The title of one of this year’s Hugo nominees violates the convention’s Code of Conduct. (Because it also violates Facebook’s rules, I will simply direct the reader to the Best Related Work category.)

ETA: Link

Comments

[violsva]

Is this really a new thing, though? I seem to recall "Fuck Me, Ray Bradbury" being nominated previously.

[supergee]

Yes, but there was no Code of Conduct then.

[weofodthignen]

I'm not on Twitter and thus not good at navigating its chained posts, and the con's actual website had little in the way of obvious links, so it took me an inordinate number of clicks to get to Natalie Luhrs, "George R.R. Martin Can Fuck Off Into the Sun, or: The 2020 Hugo Awards Ceremony (RageBlog Edition)". Since this here ain't Assbook, may I suggest a link in your post?

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[mrissa]

Interesting that you have chosen to repeat this assertion as though it is fact.

And by "interesting" I mean "wow what a bad choice."