More Autism Speaks controversy - this time the organization has sued the owner of a website that was a parody of the Autism Speaks site. The website, http://www.ntspeaks.org, is no longer online after receiving a cease and desist type of letter from Autism Speaks’ lawyers. Evidently the owner of the site was being sued for $90,000 for, among other things, copyright infringement. If you noticed, I used the word “was”; the lawsuit has been dropped. The individual being sued just happens to be underage so Autism Speaks dropped the lawsuit creating a bit of a chuckle among the supports of NTSpeaks.
Yesterday, the owner of the NTSPeaks site (known as abscout) states he is willing to be interviewed on the topic. For more information on contacting abscout check out his post on aspiesforfreedom.com. For more fun on the topic view a post on the Autism Speaks message board started by the one, the only, Autism Diva! As of this blog post there are 10 pages of responses to the Diva’s post.
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OMG! I know someone on youtube and their account is abscout. Are they the same person because I know them irl!
Hi Rach, it might just be the same person but honestly I don’t know. Ask ‘im.
if the person who got sued was named Andreas, then it’s the same person, but i don’t really want to ask him a personal question like that. besides, i don’t talk to him anymore ever since he left this dance thing that we were in.
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