Filmmaker protests Kickstarters censorship of abortion film

Filmmaker Phelim McAleer is sending a big message to Kickstarter.

In protest of the crowd-funding sites censorship of his TV movie project about convicted abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell, McAleer commissioned a bold billboard near Kickstarters Brooklyn headquarters.

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Kicked out by Kickstarter, reads the giant sign, which was put up on Tuesday afternoon. Gosnell movie raises $1 million and counting! To the public we say Thank you! To Kickstarter we say You Stink at Censorship!

McAleer raised funds for his last film, FrackNation, on Kickstarter, so the filmmaker didnt think twice about turning to the site again for his latest project. But soon after McAleer and his colleagues at Hat Tip Films submitted their posting in March, he said they received an email from Kickstarter ordering them to remove descriptions of thousands of babies murdered in order to adhere to the community guidelines.

Instead, he took the project to rival crowd-funding site Indiegogo.

CEO Yancey Strickler said recently that he banned us because the project description has to be PG-13, but thats not true. McAleer told the Post. Thats an actual lie. This is Kickstarter not wanting to do something because of their political beliefs.

The Gosnell film has been a smash hit on Indiegogo, raking in a whopping $1.5 million from more than 16,000 backers in little more than a month. Its the most successful film project on Indiegogo yet, McAleer said, and even overtook Spike Lees Kickstarter-funded film, which raised $1.4 million.

According to McAleer, Kickstarter eventually accepted the project after his colleagues pulled it from the site but gave the filmmakers a stern warning that it would be taken down if any updates were objectionable.

Strickler responded to the censorship charges in an interview with National Review online earlier this month.

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