Connor Goodwolf

Connor Goodwolf, formerly known as Insane Kangaroo (née David Leroy Ross Jr., born in California, USA), is a furry fan and fursuiter who lives in various places around the United States, mostly centered around  Columbus, Ohio, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and San Francisco, California.

Biography
Connor Goodwolf was born in California, where he lived for several years, enjoying fishing for catfish and visiting ocean beaches, until his move with his family to east Tennessee around 1993. In Tennessee he enjoyed the colorful people of the Great Smoky Mountains, helping out with his communities, and being involved in after-school programs. In June of 2005, he moved to Alaska, where he worked as a Information technology specialist in Homer, Alaska.

After being laid off in March 2010, he moved to Pennsylvania in July 2010 for his next job, driving approximately 4300 miles along the Alaska Highway, then through Canada and the US border until reaching his destination.

Open carry
He is an advocate of the right of open carry; exercising his constitutionally-protected right to visibly bear firearms. In the past, he had encounters with the Pittsburgh Bureau of Police regarding the practice. Working with the Pittsburgh Citizen Police Review Board, a memo was distributed to all Pittsburgh Police precincts on open carry.

Fandom involvement
Goodwolf's involvement in the furry fandom varies from area to area. He is a maintainer of the Fursuit Livejournal community where he helps with the everyday duties and management when the need arises. When possible he also hosts fursuit bowling events in the greater Pittsburgh area.

He runs and attends local furmeets.

K9 Sentry
Goodwolf maintains the K9 Sentry webpage and Facebook and Twitter accounts.

K9 Sentry scours mainly the furry community's main sites and social media services for signs of malfeasance regarding those furries involved in criminal activities of sexual (sex child abuse, zoophilia, bestiality, etc) or violent type (cruelty to animals et al).

The site maintains several help services and directories to keep track of the convicted furs in the fandom and keeps abreast of past and present cases by posting the latest on the K9 Sentry site, its social media accounts, and on the furry wiki, Wikifur.

Furmeet organizer
After spending time in Ohio, the decision to set up a group and organization due to the interest of others in the area resulted in the Columbus Furmeets and Furries group.

Current meets ordered chronologically:


 * Select Furry meets organized in Ohio - 2017, present
 * Outdoor, geocaching, bicycling meets in Ohio - 2013, present
 * Bowling in Columbus, Ohio - 2014 - 2017
 * Pokemon Go meets in Columbus, Ohio - 2016, present

Past events, ordered chronologically:


 * Bowling in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania at FunFestCenter - 2011 - 2012
 * Lazertag in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania at XtremeLaserStorm - 2011 - 2013
 * Lazertag in Columbus, Ohio at LazerKraze - 2014 - 2016

Group organizer
He organizes and runs various groups of common interest:


 * Ameritrade Furs on Telegram
 * RepRap and Makerspace Community on Telegram
 * Official Ohio Furs on Telegram (SFW)
 * Official Ohio Furs on Telegram (NSFW)
 * MakerSci - Electronics, Engineering and Science on Telegram
 * ActiveFurs - Dedicated to the discussion of exercise on Telegram

Panels

 * Anthrohio 2018 - 3D Printing fursuit parts

Convention and event attendances

 * Anthrocon - 2008, 2009, 2010(*)
 * AnthrOhio - 2017, 2018
 * AnthrOhio Picnic - 2017, 2018
 * MFF - 2017
 * Morphicon - 2013, 2015
 * Morphicon Picnic - 2013, 2014, 2015
 * Western Pennsylvania Furry Weekend - 2010, 2012

(*) Membership revoked

Anthrocon 2010
On January 22, 2010, Goodwolf's membership from Anthrocon was revoked by staff after being arrested for carrying a weapon in the Pittsburgh International Airport. He only carried the firearm outside of the Westin hotel and the convention center.

In a brief letter, Anthrocon chairman and CEO Dr. Samuel Conway suggested that if "the area was so dangerous as to require a firearm", it would be best not to come:

The response from Connor Goodwolf was as follows:

When asked about the decision to revoke Goodwolf's membership, a representative for the convention stated that Anthrocon "reserves the right to deny membership to any individuals who prove disruptive to convention operations, cause unwarranted discomfort to or jeopardize the health and safety of themselves or other attendees, or adversely affects Anthrocon's relationship with its guests, its venues or the public."

DNH
On January 27, 2011, Connor Goodwolf launched Do Not Hug ("The unofficial don't hug me bro murrsuit database"), a publicly viewable listing of fursuiters who engaged in sexual activities while in costume. He defended the creation of the site, and intended purpose, by stating that:

There were expressed concerns that the site could be used maliciously to violate privacy and ruin reputations.

In addition to gathering information from profiles on sites such as Fur Affinity and XTube, he solicited users to submit additional names, information, photos, and videos directly to the site. Any submissions had to include evidence of sexual activity in the form of photographs and/or videos before being added to the database.

Posting to the site was done anonymously (no e-mail address or other identifying information was required) and without the need for express consent from the fursuiter. On the day the site was launched, explicit photos of fursuit users were included in the listing, but were removed the next day.

The site went offline between March and September of 2011.

e621
After several DMCA takedown requests were sent to Fur Affinity administration concerning artists creating fan art of the e621.net mascot, Connor Goodwolf decided to look closer at e621.net to see if there were any copyright infringements or other unlawful works on the site.

He emailed e621.net's service provider after coming across works he believed were in violation of US code 18 USC § 1466A ("Obscene visual representations of the sexual abuse of children"). After receiving a copy of the email sent to their provider, Arcturus posted a topic to the forums with concerns of the future of e621.net.

Arcturus closed e621.net, leaving a message on the home page stating that "the doors are closed". Shortly afterward ownership of the site was transferred to Varka and relaunched under new management.

Cub art
Connor Goodwolf has expressed people to contact United States' Senators in regards to making explicit cub-related furry art illegal.

Inkbunny and SoFurry
In November 2010, Fur Affinity lost its payment processor, AlertPay, after they informed FA that cub pornography was against the site's terms of service.

Goodwolf theorized that a member of SoFurry or Inkbunny might have been responsible for the change, and proceeded to report them in turn to AlertPay:

AlertPay had already informed the two sites that they were terminating their services prior to FA's public announcement. Nevertheless, his actions were roundly criticized and he was subsequently banned from furrydrama_2: