Director Phelim McAleer wants to make a film about the Kermit Gosnell trial, and he has turned to crowdsourcing to make it happen. As Twitchy reported, McAleer and his team turned to IndieGoGo as a fundraising platform after Kickstarter raised objections.
“They asked us to remove the descriptions of a serial killer committing his crimes,” McAleer says. Those crimes include snipping babies’ spinal cords with scissors after they were delivered and keeping feet and other body parts in jars and freezers.
Yancey Strickler, CEO and cofounder of Kickstarter, says that story isn’t true, and he has the email to prove it.
https://twitter.com/ystrickler/status/451775275957637121
Not so fast, though. There were some conditions to that approval, it seems.
@ystrickler U accepted us after we withdrew & media questions-screenshot of your censorship here @BreitbartNews #tcot pic.twitter.com/EiS8T0FvD4
— Gosnell Movie (@GosnellMovie) April 3, 2014
@ystrickler @GosnellMovie @BreitbartNews u censored r project-we withdrew-u got media inquiries and then sent email to cover ur hypocrisy
— Phelim McAleer (@PhelimMcAleer) April 3, 2014
. @BreitbartNews why wont @ystrickler release full correspondence between @gosnellmovie & @kickstarter let the world see who is really lying
— Phelim McAleer (@PhelimMcAleer) April 3, 2014
So what’s the real story? McAleer said he was warned by Kickstarter that his project could be pulled at any time in line with Kickstarter’s community guidelines.
https://twitter.com/LetsBanEvrythng/status/451821779934130176
https://twitter.com/DJB627/status/451781546203435008
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https://twitter.com/DumbLib2013/status/451814304006684672
https://twitter.com/johnnyN2O/status/451814481245392896
@ystrickler Did #Kickstarter first reject or demand changes from #GosnellMovie before allowing? Happy to have u on my show 2day 2 discuss
— Hugh Hewitt (@hughhewitt) April 3, 2014
That tweet is Strickler’s last comment on the issue so far, although earlier in the week he denied any charges of censorship.
https://twitter.com/johnnyN2O/status/451164561102483456
https://twitter.com/ystrickler/status/451178557176549376
https://twitter.com/johnnyN2O/status/451403998793195521
https://twitter.com/ystrickler/status/451412553802194945
@ystrickler So they "chose to launch on a diff platform" out of the blue. Yeah, that doesn't pass the smell test. @johnnyN2O
— (((L.N. Smithee))) (@LNSmithee) April 3, 2014
.@LNSmithee @ystrickler @johnnyN2O its very clear what it smells like
— Phelim McAleer (@PhelimMcAleer) April 3, 2014
In the meantime, fundraising continues at GosnellMovie.com.
(Hat tip: @NAAPC)
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