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So this is pretty amazing. Amazing enough that I’m posting the same thing here that I just posted on New World’s Action Comedy blog. But interesting to write about here for a different reason - the backstory is all about the politics of cooperative editing, etc. Perhaps some of you have already heard about this? Here’s what’s happening:

A guy wrote a story. It involved first-person language about spying on a semi-naked woman and murdering a homeless man, as well as volunteering to defend our country. Someone (quite possibly a disgruntled wikipedia user who was banned) called the school where writer-guy is a grad student and told them about the story, complaining that it looked suspicious. Writer-guy (okay, his name is Phil Sandifer) was subsequently investigated by the police, asked for fingerprints, etc. Apparently writing about stalking and murdering makes you a suspect for actually doing those things. No one asked him if he was actually thinking about defending our country.

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