TELL FACEBOOK TO INCLUDE PERSONAL DEPICTIONS OF ANIMAL CRUELTY IN ITS COMMUNITY STANDARDS!
- by: Leslie Sanford
- recipient: Mark Zuckerberg, CEO Facebook
Facebook currently does not consider depictions of violence toward animals a violation of its community standards. There are times when these images are warranted and justified, e.g. to illustrate a petition or to educate about widespread abuses. The animal cruelty that is depicted by an individual inflicting or witnessing such acts, and published for the sadistic pleasure it brings the poster, are NOT warranted or justified. Moreover, they are dangerous in the extreme.
In the eight years I have used Facebook, I have seen an alarming increase in people posting about torture and death they inflict upon animals. Moreover, I have watched TRENDS IN ANIMAL TORTURE develop and spread. A person, or person(s), will post a video of themselves tying cats to trees & skinning them alive, leaving them to die agonizing deaths. Soon we see another, and another, copycat video, and soon dozens, even hundreds of animals have suffered this way. Over and over... setting kittens on fire (one, a mother doing it for the amusement of her child), setting tortoises on fire, binding dogs's snouts shut with duct tape and leaving them in isolated areas to slowly starve to death. Small animals flung against walls, firecrackers set off in pets' mouths & anuses, legs broken, pets thrown from roofs, and much more. Individuals are perpetrating these acts, and many of them get the idea from seeing them acted out in videos on Facebook. Facebook Community Standards states "We remove graphic images when they are shared for sadistic pleasure or to celebrate or glorify violence.". These home videos are shared for sadistic pleasure; what other purpose can they possibly serve?
Please join in helping to prevent the posting of individuals and groups torturing and killing animals for sadistic pleasure by signing this petition.
Dear Mr. Zuckerberg,
Facebook currently does not consider depictions of violence toward animals a violation of its community standards. There are times when these images are warranted and justified, e.g. to illustrate a petition or to educate about widespread abuses. The animal cruelty that is depicted by an individual inflicting or witnessing such acts, and published for the sadistic pleasure it brings the poster, are NOT warranted or justified. Moreover, they are dangerous in the extreme.
In the eight years I have used Facebook, I have seen an alarming increase in people posting about torture and death they inflict upon animals. Moreover, I have watched TRENDS IN ANIMAL TORTURE develop and spread. A person, or person(s), will post a video of themselves tying cats to trees & skinning them alive, leaving them to die agonizing deaths. Soon we see another, and another, copycat video, and soon dozens, even hundreds of animals have suffered this way. Over and over... setting kittens on fire (one, a mother doing it for the amusement of her child), setting tortoises on fire, small animals flung against walls, firecrackers set off in pets' mouths & anuses, legs broken, pets thrown from roofs, and much more. Individuals are perpetrating these acts, and many of them get the idea from seeing them acted out in videos on Facebook. Facebook Community Standards states "We remove graphic images when they are shared for sadistic pleasure or to celebrate or glorify violence.". These home videos are shared for sadistic pleasure; what other purpose can they possibly serve?
PLEASE do the right thing and include these depictions of animal torture in posts prohibited by your community standards. In a good community, which I believe Facebook wishes to be, people do not stand idly by and watch living creatures tortured for the sick pleasure they gain from sharing the experience.
Thank you.
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