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Okay MEDIA TWITTER, if you have EVER tweeted about racism, homophobia, biphobia, transphobia, fatphobia, any kind of social injustice, I would strongly encourage you to figure out how to join the fight against ableism. https://twitter.com/stefinitely85/status/1310370705628778498
If @austdisability wants to block every disabled writer in Australia (I’m not just talking about myself they’re going through the list and have also blocked Chloe already), then what we need is some goddamn allies to come join the fight.
This is your chance to prove that you’re NOT actually a piece of shit who only tweets about social justice when it’s convenient for you, and to show up to the table. Take it from here.
If you’re not up to date, here is a rundown of what’s happened: they stole and republished one of @chlosarge’s articles written for @pedestriandaily without telling her or PTV. Chloe was made aware of it and reached out privately to resolve the situation first.
She offered a simple solution: write a quick par setting up the premise of the story, and then link back to it. They told her that she “wasn’t explicit enough in her copyright restrictions”. She offered to invoice them for her work and they took it down in a huff.
However, all the other stolen work from disabled authors remains live on their site.
Once people began questioning them, they said that they don’t “accept the legal premise of automatic copyright” and tried to blame shift.
Once people began showing them the LITERAL LAW, they tweeted that they were essentially being bullied for abusing copyright law, which, you know, they did!!!
They’re blocking anyone who holds them accountable when all this needed was a simple “hey, we’re sorry, we didn’t know better and now that we do, we’ll take down all the articles and figure out a way to move forward that doesn’t cause hurt and harm to disabled writers”.
OKAY VERIFIEDS I KNOW YOU CAN DO BETTER THAN THIS DON’T MAKE ME START @ ing PEOPLE I DROPPED A MED TODAY I’M NOT PLAYING
Someone sent me a screenshot showing how @austdisability responded when another writer whose work has been stolen + republished, telling them they don’t care about the community + accusing them of being money hungry. They are not the victims they’re claiming to be in all of this
