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Kickstarter is hosting a product that parents of neurdiverse children are supposed to stick on their child's back.
That device will then beep every 8 seconds which is supposed to help the child to focus.
As a neurodiverse person, I can tell you that this device would not only ruin every chance of me focusing on anything, being forced to wear it would make me kill myself. I am not exaggerating here.
This is one of the worst forms of torture aimed directly at neurodiverse people I could imagine.
Here's a change.org petition to stop the sale of this: https://www.change.org/p/kickstarter-stop-kickstarter-from-allowing-child-abuse-of-neurodiverse-children
I doubt the petition will do much but the campaign does explicitly break a rule on kickstarter banning the sale of medical devices so maybe reporting it (it is linked in the petition) might help.
@woozle @dysphoricunicorn That's a bad place for a petition because #changeDotOrg is a privacy-abusing and exclusive #CloudFlare site. I will never sign a chg dot org #petition. Important petitions should be on sites like http://openpetition.org/
@resist1984 @woozle i really dislike change.org too.
I thought linking to the petition for those who want to sign it was still a good idea but in my post I’ve mentioned that it’s probably better to just report directly to Kickstarter because the campaign blatantly breaks their rules