<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><oembed><version><![CDATA[1.0]]></version><provider_name><![CDATA[Ballastexistenz]]></provider_name><provider_url><![CDATA[https://ballastexistenz.wordpress.com]]></provider_url><author_name><![CDATA[Mel Baggs]]></author_name><author_url><![CDATA[https://ballastexistenz.wordpress.com/author/ameliabaggs/]]></author_url><title><![CDATA[apology/retraction re: autism speaks t-shirt scandal&nbsp;thing]]></title><type><![CDATA[link]]></type><html><![CDATA[<p>A few entries back I talked about Autism Speaks trying to censor someone&#8217;s t-shirt.  Turns out that there was some kind of complicated mixup, and the problem was actually Zazzle overinterpreting a complaint about a different shirt or something.  I&#8217;ll also add a link at the beginning of my other post, to this post.  At any rate, consider this a retraction and apology.</p>
<p>Additionally, if anyone wonders why I didn&#8217;t <em>immediately</em> do something when this was figured out &#8212; I still don&#8217;t know entirely what was figured out.  I just know something was.  I have been away from home for a week, only now have access to a fully functional computer again, do <em>not</em> yet have a fully-functioning brain, and have not even <em>looked at</em> (much less read) my email since I left home a week ago.  I stumbled across a retraction by someone else minutes ago and have immediately written this post.</p>
<p>But, for anyone who actually <em>can</em> make good sense of everything they read right now, <a href="http://www.aspieweb.net/the-word-from-zazzle-management/">here is Zach&#8217;s post about the whole thing</a>.  At any rate, I&#8217;m sorry to Autism Speaks for assuming you were doing this sort of thing again, and to anyone else who might&#8217;ve gotten that idea from what I wrote.  And I&#8217;m very glad Zazzle has been willing to finally clear up whatever really happened &#8212; which seemed to be an employee somehow misinterpreting something by Autism Speaks and thinking it was about Zach&#8217;s shirt when it wasn&#8217;t.</p>
<p>Please post corrections in comments if I got anything wrong about this.  I&#8217;m going on three hours of sleep after a week of conference, which is not good for my comprehension and judgment abilities.  Also, if you have posted anywhere about this as a result of what I or someone else wrote, please post your own retractions and apologies wherever you did that, so that other people don&#8217;t think this really happened when it didn&#8217;t.  Just because you don&#8217;t like a person or organization doesn&#8217;t mean it&#8217;s okay to let misinformation stand when you know it&#8217;s false, so please spread the word.</p>
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