Re: Autism Speaks Intimidates yet another Autistic Blogger?

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Perhaps A.S. is doing things like this, because more and more people are determining they don't like the way the Autism Speaks organization works, or that they don't feel that the organization is saying, or doing things for the betterment of autistic people, or in a manner that coincides with their beliefs about autism. I don't know if it is because the group has gotten so large or what, but I think they have lost touch with what the autistic community and their families actually want, think or feel about autism. I think they should leave the kids alone. Just my personal opinion on this subject, and I hope I don't offend anyone. G. Brought to you by AutismLink Autism Speaks Intimidates yet another Autistic Blogger - Chilling Effectshttp://www.wrongpla net.net/article3 71.html Posted on Saturday, June 21 @ 09:30:14 EDT by After the negative publicity Autism Speaks received for threatening to sue a 14 year old autistic girl for her perfectly legal

parody website, you would think that the organization learned their lesson. Unfortunately, they're at it again, this time threatening an autistic blogger's t-shirt company with legal action for a shirt that read "'Autism Speaks' can go away. I have Autism. I can speak for myself." The organization claimed the t-shirt was a violation of copyright, despite the fact that such a t-shirt is protected as free speech. Autism Speaks, which claims to speak for autism, has no autistic employees or board members with autism and is viewed as a bully by many autistic individuals who feel that the organization engages in tactics that marginalize their voices and contribute to an environment that hurts the lives of those with Autism. Their most recent move certainly support! s such an argument.Read on for the details and links.AspieWeb is run by an autistic

individual named Zach, who posted about the incident on his

site. Zach has designed a variety of humorous and more serious t-shirts for people with autism. He is one of the countless autistic individuals who feel that Autism Speaks does more harm than good so his t-shirts voice sentiments shared by a large community. Zach received the following notice from his t-shirt company: Dear Zach, Thank you for your email. Thank you for your interest in Zazzle.com, and thank you for publishing products on Zazzle. Unfortunately, we have been contacted by Autism Speaks Inc. and it was requested that these products be removed from Zazzle.com. At the risk of legal action taken against Zazzle and yourself as a contributor of the! se products, it was decided that it was in the best interest of both p arties to have the products removed from the Zazzle Marketplace. Thanks for using Zazzle! Best Regards,

Marcos Content Management Team Zazzle.com, Inc. Hopefully Zach will find another company to print his t-shirts; preferably one that understands copyright law.Join our listserv! Don't get your news second hand! Get LINKED! http://lists. autismlink. com/lists

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As many of you know, the grandparents who founded Autism Speak are

not the best speaking terms with their daughter (mother of the child

with autism), or at least they have aired their disagreements on what

causes autism (vaccinne effect), how to treat the symptoms,

priorities, organization's approaches/policies etc... and the

grandparents have sort of pushed aside her views. If the AS founding

family can not be open to accepting different points of view within

their family, what can we expect of their attitude to the rest of the

nation? It is a shame...

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> Autism Speaks Intimidates yet another Autistic Blogger - Chilling

Effects

> http://www.wrongplanet.net/article371.html

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> Posted on Saturday, June 21 @ 09:30:14 EDT

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> After the negative publicity Autism Speaks received for threatening

to sue a 14 year old autistic girl for her perfectly legal parody

website, you would think that the organization learned their lesson.

Unfortunately, they're at it again, this time threatening an autistic

blogger's t-shirt company with legal action for a shirt that

read " 'Autism Speaks' can go away. I have Autism. I can speak for

myself. " The organization claimed the t-shirt was a violation of

copyright, despite the fact that such a t-shirt is protected as free

speech.

>

> Autism Speaks, which claims to speak for autism, has no autistic

employees or board members with autism and is viewed as a bully by

many autistic individuals who feel that the organization engages in

tactics that marginalize their voices and contribute to an

environment that hurts the lives of those with Autism. Their most

recent move certainly support! s such an argument.

>

> Read on for the details and links.

>

> AspieWeb is run by an autistic individual named Zach, who posted

about the incident on his site. Zach has designed a variety of

humorous and more serious t-shirts for people with autism. He is one

of the countless autistic individuals who feel that Autism Speaks

does more harm than good so his t-shirts voice sentiments shared by a

large community.

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> Zach received the following notice from his t-shirt company:

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> Dear Zach,

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> Thank you for your email.

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> Thank you for your interest in Zazzle.com, and thank you for

publishing products on Zazzle. Unfortunately, we have been contacted

by Autism Speaks Inc. and it was requested that these products be

removed from Zazzle.com. At the risk of legal action taken against

Zazzle and yourself as a contributor of the! se products, it was

decided that it was in the best interest of both p arties to have the

products removed from the Zazzle Marketplace.

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> Thanks for using Zazzle!

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> Best Regards,

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> Marcos

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> Content Management Team

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> Zazzle.com, Inc.

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> Hopefully Zach will find another company to print his t-shirts;

preferably one that understands copyright law.

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http://lists.autismlink.com/lists

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