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Jeremy Dawson's avatar

For years I've known that change.org is a totally unethical organisation. A long email correspondence with them made it clear that they are totally comfortable with the information circulated with a petition, encouraging me to sign it, being untrue. (And

this would not be evident to anyone to whom the petition was presented, since the information in question was not included in the text of the petition).

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James Macleod's avatar

Actually, forget all that. I’ll message you, you reply!

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James Macleod's avatar

Okay, try this:

https://substack.com/@jamesmacleod?invite

I can’t / won’t see exactly what you’ll see, because it’s my own profile, but you should see an option to message me directly.

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James Macleod's avatar

Sorry, I was at a birthday dinner before and couldn’t spend too much time replying. Let me see if I can send you a link. That’s probably easier…

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James Macleod's avatar

Sorry, DM = Direct Message. If you go to my main profile page, you can send a message to just me. But, if you’re happy for everyone one to see it, you can just drop it here. Obviously make sure it doesn’t contain any personal identifiable information for you yourself though.

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Jeremy Dawson's avatar

How do I send a message to just you? (and just to be clear, which is your "profile page"?)

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James Macleod's avatar

You can DM me here, I think the option in on my main (truth decay) page.

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Jeremy Dawson's avatar

I'm sorry I have no idea what you mean by DM. Or how I would do that, whatever it is.

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James Macleod's avatar

Hey Jeremy, if you'd be willing to share that I'd like to see their correspondence. Thanks for mentioning this.

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Jeremy Dawson's avatar

Happy to share it but where do I send it? I've tried a couple of email addresses for you thrown up by substack, with no apparent success

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Diane Engelhardt's avatar

I've signed a couple of Change.org's petitions, but have always wondered if these organizations are more committed to themselves than to the issues. Being on the right side of an issue seems to be a good way to generate income, as you've pointed out, James. I've never chipped in, but thanks for the heads-up!

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Mitchell Hall's avatar

Good subject to tackle!

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