Derechos de los animales en las Redes Sociales
FACEBOOK: BAN ALL ANIMAL ABUSE PAGES
Being discarded cases in which it seeks to make a report of the modus operandi of another person or group to another is by defending animal abuse: Ask Facebook to modify it policy to ban all the apology of animal abuse pages and profiles.
We are many Facebook users who repeatedly find pages, images and videos uploaded by other users, who use this social network to promote hatred and violence against animals.
There are a lot of pages (profiles and communities), where animals can be seen burned alive, raped, drowned, mutilated or tortured as well as being hung, etc.. , whose owners are taking a mock of their victims and their suffering, as well of us all feeling offended by this violent and immoral behavior.
Also animals have a nervous system, and they are capable of feeling pain, specially when they are brutally beaten, burned or hung... In addition to this fact that violent acts are perpetuated not by animals but by abusers, thus enhanced by videos, images and comments appearing on those Facebook pages, relates to a violation of rules set by Facebook Inc.
However, the Facebook Inc.'s policy (https://www.facebook.com/communitystandards) now clearly defines its position against violence and any kind of language or imagery that incites hatred and harassment, but albeit this definition, indirectly supports violence, hatred and harassment that may not only involve people, but also animals. We stand against this totally despicable situation.
Users sensitive enough to realize this fact, continuously criticizing these contents publicly, are also victims of the visibility given to animal abuse, therefore subjected to this kind of violence conveyed by Facebook Inc. and by all its users supporting such contents with a "Like".
-With all due respect, if you, Facebook administrators, really ensure the quality of content, you must not be a complice to animal abuse. By allowing this kind of content, you are helping the abusers to gain visibility and followers, thus contributing to the spread of violent and harmful practices against innocent living beings.
Your current denouncement and feedback tools are clearly inadequate, as animal abuse has not even its own category, enabling to be easily spread throughout the network completely unpunished. Thus, we come forward to kindly ask you to change your policy regarding the content that perpetuates animal abuse, and we fullheartedly request you to avoid this content circulating via Facebook, by improving the tools that allow us users to report and remove harmful content, like you did for abuses against people.
We propose the following changes:
1) To add the option "animal abuse" as grounds for complaint.
2) To consider as "animal abuse" whatsoever content recreating violence, torture, abuse, and / or killing of animals. Understanding as "abuse" any deviating misbehaviour inflicting harm to animals., with the exception of the contents published with the intent to report and/ or critic a case of animal abuse, where the images have a constructive intention for animals and their welfare: awareness of society to give to animal abuse.
3) Notify the followers and/or friends rating such contents with "likes" , openly discouraging them to provide similar support to animal abuse.
Best regards,
Isabel González García
Blanca De Uña Martín
derechosanimales.redessociales@gmail.com
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