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red dog 1

(29,322 posts)
Thu Aug 26, 2021, 05:42 PM Aug 2021

PETITION: REMOVE ANIMAL CRUELTY FROM YOU TUBE

Ladyfreethinker.org
August 26, 2021


PETITION TARGET: You Tube CEO Susan Wojcicki

(From Lady Freethinker.org)


"We are asking You Tube to:

- Immediately put into place a more robust monitoring system to identify animal cruelty videos

- Create an easy and effective flagging system for the public to raise concerns over animal cruelty videos.

- Adopt set and standardized definitions on what constitutes animal cruelty videos.

- Stop paying channel or video owners for film content that depicts animal cruelty.

- Ensure that these policies allow for animal welfare organizations and environmental organizations to show animal cruelty videos to highlight the problems.

- Remove all videos containing animal abuse."



After signing, learn more about animal cruelty on social media and how you can help by visiting the Social Media Animal Cruelty Coalition (SMACC) website.
This new initiative from the "Asia for Animals" coalition is dedicated to stamping out animal abuse on social platforms worldwide.
https://www.asiaforanimals.com/smacc



To sign Petition: REMOVE ANIMAL CRUELTY FROM YOU TUBE
https://ladyfreethinker.org/sign-remove-animal-cruelty-from-youtube/


(They already have collected over 105,000 signatures)

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PETITION: REMOVE ANIMAL CRUELTY FROM YOU TUBE (Original Post) red dog 1 Aug 2021 OP
They need to allow an exemption for whistle blowers and undercover journalists Farmer-Rick Aug 2021 #1
. Susan Calvin Aug 2021 #5
Signed. emmaverybo Aug 2021 #2
Thanks red dog 1 Aug 2021 #3
done... bahboo Aug 2021 #4
Thanks red dog 1 Aug 2021 #6

Farmer-Rick

(11,414 posts)
1. They need to allow an exemption for whistle blowers and undercover journalists
Thu Aug 26, 2021, 06:03 PM
Aug 2021

A lot of states put in bans against recording animal abuse and use it as an excuse to prosecute whistle blowers and undercover journalists exposing animal abuse by corporations and factory farms.

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