/lit/ - Literature

>>20856255
he's a cookbook author. so off the bat i feel like this post is a little bit misleading. you made it seem like he was an important writer. he's not an important thinker or some enfant terrible. any moron can make a cookbook. i don't see why i should give a shit that penguin broke his contract. based on a quick google search it seems like he got famous off tiktok. shouldn't he be savvy enough to understand that you can't just go on a drunken rant on a live where you say intentionally inflammatory things about people? he just sounds like an idiot. i mean really in this situation, what is penguin supposed to do? a big part of his publishing deal was probably calculated on the assumption that he had a built in audience for his book (i.e. people trying to lose weight, women, etc.) -- so when he says something intentionally to piss off a large part of his audience, that would probably affect the calculus of how many books they could sell. as to your question.... what are you saying is happening here that's such a big deal? a business is protecting its financial interests by removing itself from one of its partners who was doing something to actively damage its financial interests. maybe i could be convinced otherwise but the idea of freedom of speech i feel like goes both ways. people should be able to say what they want-- that includes saying they don't like it when people talk shit about them.
>FAT PEOPLE ARE MAMMOTHS. I LIKE TO PISS OFF WOMEN
>hey, i don't like how you said fat people are mammoths
>WTFFFF NOOOO I'M BEING CANCELLED

like should freedom of speech only apply to people who talk shit / say inflammatory things in the first place? anyone who disagrees with them is "cancelling" them?

also the guy looks like DJ Dougpoundd lol