and I know they dont “silence” anyone , as there are other platforms out there for them to speak , I was more referring to the likes of Alex Jones etc who have claimed they are being silenced or “shadow banned” whatever the fuck that means. so it IS a 2 way street
Alex Jones is a different situation. He had no direct association with the companies that banned him from their platforms (Apple, YouTube, Facebook, and Spotify, all on the same day). He was censored, not fired. Wendig’s situation is in no way comparable.
If Wendig finds himself unable to communicate on those platforms in the future, then it’ll be the same situation and I’ll back him 100%. You shouldn’t be banned from a social media platform for having ideas that some consider offensive.
Jay, I’m surprised you support this firing, considering what you’ve said in the past.
I don’t. People shouldn’t be fired over their politics or things they say on social media.
I see. Just wondered because your post seemed to suggest an implicit agreement with the justification for the firing.
As for the firing potentially being because of the diminishing returns of his work, I’d be surprised if that was the case, as the series he was taken off of was announced pretty recently (maybe even within this past week), so the other reasons are more likely true.
Also, I’m pretty sure hiring/firing is the domain of the publisher not LFL, though I’m sure they have some sway.
Maybe I’m confused, but I was under the impression that Wendig has been writing comics at Marvel for a while.
From what I understand, he’s primarily a novel writer who’s done a few jobs for Marvel (the TFA adaptation, probably a couple other things I’m unaware of), but he’s not like a staff writer or anything. The series he got fired off of was a miniseries to be written entirely by him that was just announced last week. Point being I don’t think they would have put him on a new miniseries only to yank him off immediately after if his work itself was a problem. They just wouldn’t have put him on at all.
Agreed. It’s more likely the cause of his problems is his writing on social media rather than his paid gigs.