Comic Book Legal Defense Fund fundraiser in NYC with Little Brother! -- POSTPONED TO AUGUST
Bugger. One of the people involved in my Comic Book Legal Defense Fund benefit event in NYC this Sunday has taken ill and we've had to postpone the event until August. Sorry everyone -- hope I'll get to see you Monday at 5PM at Books of Wonder near Union Square. All advance ticket holders will
have their ticket donation refunded.
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We've just announced the first of two events in New York as part of the book tour for my young adult novel Little Brother: a charity fundraiser for the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund at the nightclub Comix. The CBLDF is a fantastic organization who work tirelessly to defend comics professionals, distributors and retailers from laws that censor the content of comics (often in response to the decades-old moral panic that comics are warping the morals of our children). I'm an annual donor to CBLDF and it tickles me to be able to support them in other ways.
There's going to be one other New York event, a free reading at a midtown bookstore, that I'll be announcing in the next day or so. I hope I see you at one or both events!
Link, Link to tour scheduleOn May 25 join Cory Doctorow to celebrate the premiere of LITTLE BROTHER, his New York Times Best Selling Young Adult Fiction debut! Cory will present an all-ages reading & Q&A to benefit the First Amendment legal work of the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund!
Addressing internet and government security, censorship, and civil liberties in a post-9/11 atmosphere, LITTLE BROTHER tackles timely issues while telling a smart, funny, and jam-packed-with-pop culture story...
Proceeds from this event will benefit the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund. The CBLDF provides legal defense on behalf of artists, retailers, and librarians facing criminal and civil prosecution for First Amendment related actions. The Fund also fights unconstitutional legislation that threatens First Amendment rights. Most recently, the CBLDF won a three year legal battle in Georgia, where Gordon Lee, a retailer, faced up to two years in prison for allegedly distributing a comic book containing drawings of Picasso in the nude to a minor. All charges were dismissed, but only after more than three years and $100,000 of CBLDF resources were spent to prove Lee's innocence..
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#1: Wow, exaggerated sense of entitlement much?
I considered this more about the CBLDF than Cory or Little Brother.
In the words of one of my favorite comments not my own, Please tell the individual with the gun to your head forcing you to read this that he has my permission to fire.
If someone were to make a steampunk binding of Corey's book, would BoingBoing implode?
This is truly tiresome boredsoup. On the other hand you could always go back to Digg.
Anyone who hates on this post hates Freedom of Speech and hates America.
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The main reason I started reading Boing Boing is because I was interested in what Cory was up to after reading some of his books. I'm very interested in first amendment issues. I'm somewhat interested in comics. I live in NYC. I might go to this if I had an idea how much it cost, and more likley would go to the free event.
So that about covers it. I'm interested in the whole post.
If I weren't interested I wouldn't bother to read it.
I'm not singling out poster #1, but what I don't get is people who not only bother to waste their time reading something they aren't interested in , but take the time to clutter up the space with how uninterested they are. How pathetic is that anyway.
Unless you are Iggy Pop , there is nothing less interesting to me than how bored or uninterested in something you are.
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This blatant pimpin' of Little Brother makes Boredsoup so angry that he can't even spell!
OutRAGEous!
Cory must be stopped!
Cry "Censorship!" and let slip the naked molerats of civil liberty!
One should always support good people.
Okay, time to play "guess the Midtown book store Cory's talking about."
Borders? (Kips Bay or Penn Plaza?)
Barnes and Noble? (Fifth Avenue?)
Rizzoli?
Kinokuniya? (dark horse candidate!)
Or is it just outside the technical boundaries of Midtown, opening up the field?
@12; Previous troll repellent techniques have proven ineffective. I say let's starve 'em out by turning a blind eye. Additional benefit: lower blood pressure. Wadd'ya think?
Begone, foul CATFOTFICs! We like the Progress of Cory posts! Especially those of us who LIVE in the NYC area and are pleased as punch that we're about to be able to get autographed copies!
Ross @12 - Sounds like a good idea. But do we still get to take our shots?
@18 Nothing stops me. It's between you and your liver.
like a bunch of lab rats with pleasure center electrodes madly pumping the lever.... you all realize of course that any liquor you consume means less potential liquor in the world for me? (lousy,selfish.....)
Well, I have to go work with high voltage electricity and power tools, so the world's supply of potable ethanol is safe for the moment, but come sundown...
aw, take the bottle with you...
#7 is a level of cluelessness I haven't previously encountered before: A DUPLICATE of a post by a CATFOTFIC, whining boringly about "censorship" of CATFOTFIC posts!
OK so some of Corys work was good and some bombed a bit for me. But I would rent a plane to skywrite about Little Brother not because it is good sci-fi but because it introduces real effective rebellion against the corrupt system to the minds of teens, and even gives them a few tips on how to do it. Will it stop the apathy? Dont know, but I can hope it starts something.
That would be the now-FORMER #7. Hooray! CATFOTFICs banished!
Ok, I get it -- this is one of those threads thats supposed to get you to think about corporate censorship along with just plain reasonable 1st amendment censorship.
I find it even funnier that at the bottom of the screen right near this box we have a "Defeat Censorware" link (something that is run by private businesses and not by the gov't).
Little Brother rise up against the corporate oppression! Do your part. (Again, personally, I don't care...I censor things on my site all the time...then again, I don't write books about corporate censorship!)
Why I have started removing rather than disemvowelling CATFOTFIC comments about Little Brother:
It is a truth universally acknowledged that anyone who is complaining about having seen too many entries concerning Little Brother must surely have seen those entries' comment threads as well.
In those threads have appeared many explanations as to why Cory is blogging this book tour; why other readers want to hear about it; and how to avoid entries on subjects that fail to take one's fancy (hint: use the scrollbar). And yet, we continue to see a steady stream of first-time commenters whose complaints strongly resemble many of the previous complaints, but betray no acquaintance with the replies and explanations posted in those previous comment threads.
As the gentle reader is no doubt aware, I was in fact born yesterday, and therefore these manifestations are a complete mystery to me. In consequence of dealing with them, my nerves have become quite overset, and my liver has turned upside-down. I am thus obliged to dispense with these comments entirely, as I Simply Cannot Cope.
(Eeek. Eheu. Alas. Et cetera.)
Hi, Clif. You've got hold of the wrong end of the stick. There's nothing corporate about this. The actual issue is harassment.
yeah, there are apparently so few neurons involved that conditioning by deletion is the only way to scrape them off our shoes.
I don't see this as "corporate". This is personal.
A while ago, I raised the question of the advisability of codifying in common law the concept of internet trespass. A touchy, explosive subject among free thinkers. My first thought is that willful, repeated intrusion after being plainly warned is indeed trespass. My fondness for unbridled liberty doesn't sit entirely well with this because of the obvious abuse potential.
I am tired of the limitless supply of the irresponsible though. What's better? Reason with them? Sanction them? Disemvowelment? Deletion? Bans? Or simple legal prosecution? Web ASBOs?
Fines?
We are going there sooner or later. Is it better to take control at the beginning and shape it? Or let the gummint do its signature work?
If BoingBoing undertook landmark litigation to stop and recover damages from willful trolls, would be a day of infamy? Or remembered as a watershed moment in human progress?
Or you could just give me their addresses and I'll key their cars, put dogshit in their mailboxes, break their windows and otherwise communicate with them in their native tongue.
But Teresa, how are we supposed to know when to drink our shots?
Just kidding, one or two trolls can be amusing, but these seemed to multiplying at an alarming rate. I applaud your move.
As a self complacent newbie I will unashamedly ask a question (that I love saying aloud): What the fuck's a CATFOTFIC?
You people and your geeky acronyms....
CATFOTFIC?
(websurcheeng)
....
(ping!) (*)
"complaining about the flavor of the free ice cream"
Bwhahahwhahawhah!
Nice. Is that a new acronym? Or is this further proof that I'm getting old? Wait, I gotta chase the kids off my yard.
(*) Yes, my surchenjen goes "ping" and it always finds me exactly what I"m looking for.
Internet trespass? I like it, though I don't know how it would be enforceable beyond a case by case basis. You damn kids get off my virtual lawn!
That said, my own damn kid was looking through my copy of David Hajdu's The Ten-Cent Plague this morning, and he asked me why people thought comic books were threatening back in the '50s. We had a nice talk about why neither comics nor videogames are likely to mean the End of Western Civilization. And then I found this post, so we can continue the conversation...
and Antinous scores a googlethump! The crowd goes wild!!!
Greg, I proposed it here. Glad to see it catching on!
Wow! I have the TOP site on a search for CATFOTFIC on Google!
I've never been a top find before. It's sort of cool...except that I bet I would be on skrikkimadoolconfustiburgers too.
Takuan, how does Antinous score a googlethump? I don't even see an Antinous comment in this thread.
nope, Antinous beat ya
http://www.boingboing.net/2008/04/24/-next-thursday-may-1.html#comment-173259
Oops. Antinous proposed it first. Sorry.
I swear I didn't know about his before posting mine. Drat that Antinous...he's before me in the alphabet too!
Well, at any rate, it's an idea whose time has come.
Xopher: I proposed it here. Glad to see it catching on!
Nice.
Oh, someone asked for a URL to my surchenjen, since it always finds what I'm surcheeng for. The problem is it runs on owls for fuel, and it'd be environmentally unsound to have everyone use it.
Plus I'm getting seriously low on owls.
I may have to start breeding them.
Uh-huh.
Greg, I thought your surchenjen was the Hollywood movie one...you know, where you can type in "Mac virus that kills alien starship" and get one, and that works on a Unix system, so all you have to do is find the right icon.
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Aw, Teresa, I was expecting a build-up to "Reader, I deleted them."
#1 posted by Halloween Jack , May 19, 2008 7:00 AM
#1: Wow, exaggerated sense of entitlement much?
Heh.
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