Review: Off-Topic: The Story of an Internet Revolt
This is the live document of what happened in the Goodreads community.
This book was removed a while ago from the GoodReads site itself. Some said it wasn't "a real book". That is was a story that was never told.
But the story wanted to be told. People stood up against removal of your words, arbitrary enforcements that remove your speech from sight, against the transformation of a site for booklovers in a site for marketing, against so called rules that enable unwanted thoughts to be struck down and no longer heard.
These are your words.
The story wanted to be told, and we listened. We put your words together, tied the pages, and made this collection of your words a document of the September/October 2013 protests of Goodreaders to censorship.
I've seen people and media ignoring the real extent of the deletions. This book will give you numbers and examples.
I've seen misunderstandings of why people object. This book will give you answers.
We have been told long ago, that the internet will become private yards, walled gardens from where only approved speech will be heard. Sooner or later, the private owner "curates" their space from unwanted speech.
When censorship came to GoodReads, this is what happened.
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