You're awesome. Thank you so much for all the information, as well as the steps you've made on behalf of all of us - whether this was your original intention or not. Since you appear to be the one making direct contact with WFI, may I just ask that, if you do communicate with them again, that you bring up the issues raised here: http://community.livejournal.com/fandom_lawyers/36677.html?thread=155717#t155717 (Sorry it's the raw link. It's very late) The gist of it is, (I haven't personally visted the site so I can't tell you whether this is true) WIF is apparently teaching people to pose as children to catch paedophiles/keep them away from the real kids. The thing is, they're providing instructions on how to impersonate a child online. And even include ways to avoid voice convos etc. It doesn't seem to occur to WIF that these tactics can also be used by, hmmm... maybe - the preditors?! To be honest, I'm less concerned about the whole fandom thing as I am about the danger they're actually posing here. I know I'm kind of dumping this on you to talk to them about it, so feel free to say no and tell me to do it myself and that I'm lazy (no argument here). Just you seem to be much more skilled than me in structuring arguments and such. In any case. This journal is a wealth of info. Thanks.
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Since you appear to be the one making direct contact with WFI, may I just ask that, if you do communicate with them again, that you bring up the issues raised here: http://community.livejournal.com/fandom_lawyers/36677.html?thread=155717#t155717 (Sorry it's the raw link. It's very late) The gist of it is, (I haven't personally visted the site so I can't tell you whether this is true) WIF is apparently teaching people to pose as children to catch paedophiles/keep them away from the real kids. The thing is, they're providing instructions on how to impersonate a child online. And even include ways to avoid voice convos etc. It doesn't seem to occur to WIF that these tactics can also be used by, hmmm... maybe - the preditors?!
To be honest, I'm less concerned about the whole fandom thing as I am about the danger they're actually posing here.
I know I'm kind of dumping this on you to talk to them about it, so feel free to say no and tell me to do it myself and that I'm lazy (no argument here). Just you seem to be much more skilled than me in structuring arguments and such. In any case. This journal is a wealth of info. Thanks.