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UNRELATED TO THIS THREAD RAWDGHSJS. Got your attention yet? I hope so. Good 'kay. "Request General" sounds close enough for the purpose of this post.
So some of you may remember Josh Meihaus from a while back. He's a fellow writer who spent a bit of time in the TG, but since has gone MIA. To quote Pony Fiction Vault,
"Josh Meihaus is looking for your signature to help stop a fraudulent lawsuit against his mother's small business, which has the potential to bankrupt them":
http://www.change.org/petitions/abuse-of-the-americans-with-disabilities-act#
I did a bit of digging around and discovered that Eustatian opposes it, for reasons stated here: http://www.fimfiction.net/blog/31982 and I'd advise that you take the time to read through it first so that you, dear reader, can make an informed decision.
This is a signal boost. I've signed the petition anyways, and I'm spreading this around on the principle that "do to others what you would have others do to you", and on grounds that he's a fellow, and was/is part of the /fic/ community. Acting less on sentiment and more on rationale, I believe that the petition may help to draw the attention of the lawmakers to potential loopholes, so that they can enact change as they see fit through the proper methods, to the proper areas, not necessarily those highlighted in the petition but with the same effect i.e. closing loopholes.
Further discussion would most certainly kill this thread beyond repair*, so I've included my email in the tripcode** if anyone really does want to have a go at me, wants to pick at my motivations, etc., etc.. Alternatively, Josh's own Fimfic blog is here: http://www.fimfiction.net/blog/31512 so if there's any concerns you want to tell him, well, there you go.
Sorry if this comes off as, er, not level-headed. Trying to word the last part in a balanced manner was hard, and I need to get to bed. And apologies for, ultimately, posting this in the wrong thread.
*It was either this thread or the StoryForge. Perhaps we need a General General, bumped for announcements, emergencies and relatively important albeit non-fanfic related stuff, and submerged otherwise? I dunno. Why /fic/, rather than the other boards? Because 1) /fic/ is Again, email.
**It's an actual email, despite being "sincerely fake".
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