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Well, well, well... look who makes a guest appearance at the 14:30 mark.
Careercow Chuck Wendig / Charles Wendig / TerribleMinds - Terrible author, terrible person, ruined Internet Archive's online library
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Well, well, well... look who makes a guest appearance at the 14:30 mark.
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This is Maureen Johnson, btw. So quirky! That was a good picture, so here's a much more recent one:
I guess podcasting is a pretty unhealthy occupation. It gives you way too much time to binge-eat. That does explain why she's so upset that the cops didn't offer her a seat when she went to report her 'assault'. She should have just gone down there in her scootypuff, problem solved.
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She loves mysteries, she should be able to figure out why she's lonely, and where all the cake disappeared to (those mysteries are connected!). I think she's just pissed off that a young, fit, and healthy guy refused to give her any attention when he got stuck in an elevator with Miss Piggy, here. Well, windbag Chuck is giving her attention, that's a real consolation. I can't wait until she names her 'assaulter' so I can put up his photos and compare and contrast the two.
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It seems Young Adult Novelist is a soft way of saying wine aunt going through midlife crisis.
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Wendig is currently trending (and being shat on by everyone) because he apparently just won his suit against the Internet Archive.
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So he has graduated into a truly evil fuck who should be hated by everyone.
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He's locked down his twitter and clicking or searching his name in trending will pull up pages of people (including lefty genderspecials) explicitly fantasizing about his death. I haven't seen anything like it in a while.
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I can't really archive at the moment but here a just a few random screencaps I took just now. It's nearly endless torrents of hate.
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Chuck Wendig is bringing people together in wishing him harm. It would be almost heartwarming, if it wasn't because he helped made the world worse for everyone with internet access.
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This is who one should point to whenever you want to show what the average lefty wokie SJW person is or the end goals of their politics.
Seriously, this man is literally raising his wife's son. The soy-cuck made flesh, uncannily so. At least for once people are coming together to hate on this fag.
Seriously, this man is literally raising his wife's son. The soy-cuck made flesh, uncannily so. At least for once people are coming together to hate on this fag.
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Good, I hope the bullying and harassment doesn't stop anytime soon.
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Can't believe the Internet got cucked by this soyjack looking ass. Usually it's the other way around. 
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SoyjakCan't believe the Internet got cucked by this soyjack looking ass. Usually it's the other way around.
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When I used to listen to D&C I'd never though one of his subjects would be made the punching bag of the internet.
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So he whined and it's the publishers who sued.
Searching for Cuck Wingdings and the IA lawsuit is very out of date, but Google brought up this 2020 article:
Nice headline:
Searching for Cuck Wingdings and the IA lawsuit is very out of date, but Google brought up this 2020 article:
Nice headline:
The Assassination of the Internet Archive by the Coward Chuck Wendig
The Internet Archive is one of the most valuable resources that has ever graced researchers. As an archival tool, it is second-to-none, surpassing even Wikipedia in how an ideal internet could operate. Not only does it archive long-dead links and webpages through its robust Wayback Machine, it provides an immense amount of scans for books, technical manuals, magazines, and all sorts of other digital media. It is among the internet’s best kept secrets — or was — until a craven dweeb/best selling author named Chuck Wendig put it on blast in March 2020.
Twitter: Chuck Wendig — March 28th 2020 [Now Deleted, Please Refer to His March 30th 2020 Blog Post]
Chuck Wendig on Twitter: "Dear @NPR — uhh hey hi THIS IS A PIRATE WEB…
archived 23 Apr 2020 17:38:48 UTCarchive.is
The NPR article that he is crowing about highlighted the Archive’s National Emergency Library program created in response to the COVID-19 crisis that shut down libraries. This attack on the Internet Archive drew attention to the cause that Chuck was not so subtly trying to enforce, that is, an enforcement of corporation-friendly copyright law. Now Chuck and defenders of Chuck are not incorrect when they say that Chuck Wendig did not file the lawsuit against the IA and in fact, publishers had been eyeing up a case against the non-profit for months. Instead what Chuck did was even more pathetic. Chuck pulled repeatedly on mommy’s skirt, pointing at the boy with the bigger lolly and demanding that his lolly be taken away. It was concern trolling of the nth degree.
Chuck argues that he is not even particularly worried about his own books being pirated, but that he is looking out for debut and marginalized authors. This invocation of “debut and marginalized writers” is merely paternalistic hand-wringing. Chuck Wendig is in fact, extremely concerned that IA audio-book downloads may affect sales of his Miriam Black books but is too “humble” to admit to that. Instead, he uses unnamed “marginalized” writers to act as his shield against a torrent of internet vitriol. Chuck believes this vitriol is misdirected and unearned, the result of trolls acting in bad faith when in fact Chuck brought this reaction upon himself by sounding the alarm to his 186,000 followers. When people hold him responsible for his obsessive tweeting, his response is to throw up his hands and jockey for martyrdom — he has no actual defense so he throws himself at the mercy of his loyal followers.
Twitter: Chuck Wendig — June 12th 2020
Chuck is less a writer than he is a mouthpiece for corporate fandom and a watchdog for copyright disobedience. His assertion that he is being attacked by bad faith actors misdirecting their anger towards publishers at him is disingenuous. When Metallica drove Napster into bankruptcy over piracy of their albums, they received due backlash for crushing one of the best distribution networks of the early internet era. The difference here is that Metallica made Master of Puppets and Chuck hasn’t even made St. Anger. Chuck Wendig is less interested in writing than he is in mining whatever drips of profit he can from a desiccated industry. If Chuck were truly concerned about the successes of debut and marginalized writers, he would seek avenues to reform the industry and negotiate how publishers pay writers for their time and labor. Instead what he has done is play hall monitor and chase after outlets that he’s identified as potential drains on income.
The results of his terrier-like aggression towards the Internet Archive, much like a terrier’s barking, are fairly meager. In the grand scheme of things, Chuck’s simpering barks did more to make him into a lightning rod than it did to make a case against the Archive. Regardless, the Internet Archive was forced to shutter its National Emergency Library program after a lawsuit from publishers — necessitating the removal of thousands of e-books and digitized music files. However, the people that Chuck has chosen to ally himself with — the publishing conglomerates — have found their ally in Senator Thom Tillis (R-North Carolina), the Chairman of the Intellectual Property Subcommittee on the Senate Judiciary Committee. The statement that Senator Tillis issued about the Internet Archive states succinctly the side that Wendig and his co-conspirators fall on, “I recognize the value in preserving culture and ensuring that it is accessible by future generations, but I am concerned that the Internet Archive thinks that it — not Congress — gets to determine the scope of copyright law.”
What this position fails to consider is that copyright and intellectual property laws have become absurdly pro-corporation and anti-consumer. This is due to the machinations of media companies like Disney who have repeatedly lobbied Congress to extend copyright laws via so-called Mickey Mouse bills. The Copyright Term Extension Act of 1998 was the most recent movement to update copyright laws to keep ancient cartoons like Steamboat Willie out of the public domain. This was done under the auspices of fairly compensating artists for their work, but the true goal of Disney and others was to neuter the efficiency and the utility of the public domain. This ensured that these companies could continue making profits off their nearly century-old creations. The Internet Archive rejects this crass perversion of good intentions and uses its objective utility to make moves against the encroaching domination of media by corporate interests. In the staid world of copyright, it is a bomb-thrower. It, like Wikipedia, shows how the internet can be utilized for good, spreading information through crowdsourced materials with disregard for the constraints thrust upon us by transparently pro-corporation laws.
After Chuck made his initial tweet against NPR and the Archive, he made a lengthy apology on his blog, TerribleMinds, which is less conciliatory and reads as “I shouldn’t have called it a pirate site, but I was otherwise fundamentally right about everything I said.” He has the right to his opinion and to his credit, he supported his opinion with many other authors and publishers who feel similarly about the function of the Internet Archive. However, just because industry people agree with him does not mean that his opinion is the correct one. Rather, it suggests that this is an industry that is quick to circle the wagons whenever a potential line of profit is threatened. I understand that the publishing industry is — and has been — in a precarious position, but if Chuck’s response to this is to chase after pirates instead of pushing for substantive reform, he is just as bad as the venture capitalists who have parasitically drained the industry over the last few decades.
Chuck Wendig uses his vaunted position as an author with a not-insignificant digital following to do the grunt work for corporations’ legal and PR teams. He is a corporate astroturfer masquerading as a twee audience-friendly author. His fiction, regardless of its quality, is secondary to his attacks on something that has the genuine potential to upend decades of regressive copyright law. It is true, he did not sue the Internet Archive but he is indicative of a larger push by writers of his ilk to hand media ownership over to private industry instead of the public. Wendig’s current legacy is a handful of mediocre novels, fan-fictions, and a nauseating linguistic pattern, but if the Internet Archive permanently closes, all of that will be a footnote compared with the material impact of his Twitter account. As an author, he should be cognizant the power of the pen better than anybody — and as the huge nerd in him should know, “With great power, comes great responsibility.”
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I have just been made aware of the existence of both the internet archive and this massive retarded faggot, and somehow a quick reading of a few pages from his thread made me quite angry.
God, i can't imagine what those who often used the internet archive must feel i'm truly sorry
God, i can't imagine what those who often used the internet archive must feel i'm truly sorry
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Rate me MATI or whatever idgaf, but I want to punch this man and I hope he ends up working as a dishwasher
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