Orkut has close to a thousand communities that are about “dogs” – 99% of these “dog” communities are about loving the animal but there’s one that says “I hate dogs”. (see screen-shot)
This has enraged animal rights group PETA and they have now asked Google to delete such content from Orkut and ban the community.
That’s not all – they have also called the Indian police to take action against Orkut members who are part of the “anti-dog” group and have admitted (in Orkut forums) to acts of violence against dogs.
Find this article at: http://www.labnol.org/internet/favorites/orkut-dog-communities-indian-police/1836/
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Reader Comments
That’s really weird. I mean… if a member is joining a group, it’s absolutely his wish and will right?
“I hate Dog” community doesn’t actually do any harm to dogs. They are just expressing their views on dogs, so what’s the problem with PETA?
Written by Thilak on 11.22.07
I honestly don’t understand why people get so offended by a simple community on orkut. Everyone thinks that any anti-something community should be taken down. Any anti india community is bad, any community degrading a symbol is bad.
quite frankly orkut’s terms of statements say they’re not responsible for this sort of thing, and they expect the police to track down each and every one of those people and for what? frickin dogs?
an interesting find though Amit
Written by Anirudh on 11.22.07
PETA is absurd. If I “hate God” should I be deleted?
Written by Style Snatch on 11.22.07
I too have no problem with people hating dogs, but when a community starts to instigate killing dogs, then there is a problem (not only is that against the law, its also wrong morally).
Thats what happened with this community.
Written by George on 11.22.07
Thilak: I’ve heard rumours that some of the members of that group eat dog meat, and others perform acts of perversion with dogs. These may not be entirely trustworthy reports, but they should be investigated.
Written by Sailash Patel on 11.22.07
This like a very sad one!! Read it the other day in the newspaper…
Written by Moksh Juneja on 11.23.07
There atleast a thousand hate communities in orkut. including 6 “we hate ….” communities which shows a burning national flag. No one wants to delete them. On the contrary people are more adamant on deleting “we hate dogs” community. Well, i am left without any words..
Written by BGM on 11.23.07
Just visited that community. Man, some guys r really having some real issues with dogs! One guy who call himself “hate” sounds like he is having some mental problems. He posts link to the pics of the dogs he killed and announces that he will do it again! Thats really devious. Any by the way the community owner renamed it to “We dont like dogs” and changed the display pic.
Written by BGM on 11.23.07
excuse me !! have u read the kind of stuff these ppl have been writing abt dogs ! thts the kind of things only sickos discuss !! so u know what guys – its not abt the i hate thingy … its abt the kind os wierd stuff those ppl have been talking abt
Written by NEMT on 11.28.07
This post is late, because I just found the site. I wonder if the PETA people had any influence with the Chinese officials who had dog taken off the menus of Chinese restaurants visitors to the 2008 Olympics in Beijing are likely to visit? Seriously, I frankly don’t care whether someone likes dogs, cats, or whatever. For me the main thing is that no one treat animals cruelly or unkindly. A visit to the average slaughter house is enough to turn one into a vegetarian. Ritual slaughter of food animals as is practiced by observant Jews and Muslims is the most humane way of killing an animal that is to be eaten. We euthanize pets who are too ill to be effectively treated. Surely we can treat them well while they are alive and well, even if we don’t like them.
Written by Richard on 08.06.08