Update. The publisher suing to stop book censorship is #PenguinRandomHouse. But #PRH is also one of four publishers suing the #InternetArchive to stop controlled digital lending (#CDL).
Last Nov, publishing got excellent news: the planned merger of #PenguinRandomHouse (the largest publisher in the history of human civilization) with its immediate competitor #SimonAndSchuster would not be permitted, thanks to the #FTC's deftly argued case against the deal:
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Given the mercenary dunderheads presently installed at the top at various Penguin Random House branches (and I scuffled with some of these assholes in my litblogging days; don't say I didnt try to warn you!), it doesn't surprise me to see spokespeople issuing extremely ageist and wildly insulting press statements shitting on these veteran editors on their way out
Help build or support a shadow library that isn't on some white libertarian nonsense
Then people don't have to use the above two
Destroy the multinational corporate behemoths behind the lawsuit
(Hachette Book Group, HarperCollins Publishers, John Wiley & Sons, and Penguin Random House)
Overthrow the illegitimate government which issued the ruling
Fascist police states built on slavery & genocide are bad, actually