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May 25, 2006
Why Writers Use Pen Names
"The Boing Boing blog broke this story, which is something anyone who is interested in genre fiction needs to take interest in. A University of Florida graduate student wrote a horror story on his LiveJournal which got the interest of the university police. They have been harassing him for his fingerprints and DNA so they can try to match him to other murders. The unstoppable force that is Cory Doctorow got involved, calling and investigating, with the police quite unwilling to discuss the situation, although they chose to use Doctorow’s interest in the situation as more ammo with which to threaten the student. There is no case. There are no charges. And yet they won’t lay off this guy.
Writing is not a crime. Writing about bad things is not a crime. Being an unpublished writer, writing about bad things, is not a crime. (Notice no one going after big time authors."
I wonder what kinda reception Edgar Allen Poe would get from today's PC cyber-cops? Or Stephen King if he were just starting out?
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Posted by Ali Massoud at May 25, 2006 11:41 AM
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