From: kfl@KeithLynch.net   
      
   Bernard Peek  wrote:   
   > That's democracy in action.  There are more people outside fandom   
   > than in it.   
      
   Those outside fandom shouldn't vote on the Worldcon's location or on   
   the winners of the Hugo awards.   
      
   > There are more SF fans outside the US than inside it.   
      
   And I'm confident that most of them, inside or outside the US, support   
   freedom of speech, freedom of the press, and freedom of religion.   
      
   That's partly because that is simply the world consensus except in   
   totalitarian nations (which are fortunately in the minority), and   
   partly because speculative fiction obviously requires freedom of   
   speculation.   
      
   > Restricting the vote to an elite corps would be one way of keeping   
   > Worldcons like thay have been.   
      
   Is fandom an elite corps?  Well, fans are Slans. :-)   
      
   I'm not averse to Worldcons changing, but not every change is good.   
   Arbitrarily declaring works that criticize the Great Leader to be   
   "ineligible" is not a desirable change (except by the Great Leader).   
      
   > First establich that this is desirable then if it is achievable.   
      
   Freedom of speculation is desirable.  Otherwise we're not about SF.   
      
   (Are there still any Michelists in fandom?  To oversimplify a bit,   
   they believed SF should consist entirely of socialist propaganda.   
   See https://fancyclopedia.org/Michelism )   
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