Remove photos of animal cruelty and hunting on Instagram

Remove photos of animal cruelty and hunting on Instagram

The Issue

We are temporary citizens of Earth tasked with protection of environment and animals. We believe images of bloody bodies of animals some of which are at the edge of extinction must be recognized as a clear evidence of graphic violence and hence must be removed from Instagram. All animal hunting pages must be blocked by Instegram to stop propagation of animal cruelty. Here's some very good reasons to do so:


1- It is propagating Violence:
allowing hunters to post photos of animals soaked in their own blood normalizes violence, torture and murdering in the eyes of society and will mislead impressionable people to believe that hunting is a cool, honorable or fun activity. A hunter's photo posing beside an animal's bloody corpse should be considered a crime and not trophy. Why should violence and normalization of it be considered less harmful to the society than nudity when many governments in the world find it more censurable?


2- It is normalizing and advertising systematic harm to the ecosystem of Earth and Biodiversity:
  The current extinction rate is approximately 100 extinctions per million species per year, which is 1,000 times higher than natural background rates. Scientists also predict that future rates may be as much as 10,000 times .
This makes present time's rate of extinction significantly greater than of any of the 5 mass-extinctions happened in the history of Earth!!!!
The new era of mass-extinction started 10,000 years ago by first human hunters and has been accelerating since then. Human kind is no longer dependent on hunting in order to survive and yet we are pursuing other activities even more harmful to the ecosystems of Earth.  It is not rational to continue this anti-environmental behavior and it must be recognized as a crime (as has been for many species in many countries) and therefore be discouraged by all Media including social networks such as Instagram. Our life is tightly bound to other species’. So whatever we do for them we do for our own kind


3- Many of the photos represent illegal hunting’s:
 Hunting of elephants is illegal in most countries and even ivory trade has become illegal to stop the killing of them. Hundreds of NGOs and many governments are working hard to prohibit this deadly trade. Unfortunately one can easily find photos of elephants with huge ivories murdered by hunters who are posing by their side on Instagram!!!
This is while many other less known species are under protection of their Governments and Instagram can not detect them from legal (but still violent) hunts.


4 - Facebook did this after a petition on change.org asked for it .Why can't Instagram do the same?

Instagram as a worldwide social network popular with hundreds of millions of users including children and teenagers is aware of the responsibilities brought to the founders by its growing popularity and has therefore made strict rules on nudity and is also able to do the same for violence against animals .

Dear Instagram please do this for our beloved Earth .

 

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The Issue

We are temporary citizens of Earth tasked with protection of environment and animals. We believe images of bloody bodies of animals some of which are at the edge of extinction must be recognized as a clear evidence of graphic violence and hence must be removed from Instagram. All animal hunting pages must be blocked by Instegram to stop propagation of animal cruelty. Here's some very good reasons to do so:


1- It is propagating Violence:
allowing hunters to post photos of animals soaked in their own blood normalizes violence, torture and murdering in the eyes of society and will mislead impressionable people to believe that hunting is a cool, honorable or fun activity. A hunter's photo posing beside an animal's bloody corpse should be considered a crime and not trophy. Why should violence and normalization of it be considered less harmful to the society than nudity when many governments in the world find it more censurable?


2- It is normalizing and advertising systematic harm to the ecosystem of Earth and Biodiversity:
  The current extinction rate is approximately 100 extinctions per million species per year, which is 1,000 times higher than natural background rates. Scientists also predict that future rates may be as much as 10,000 times .
This makes present time's rate of extinction significantly greater than of any of the 5 mass-extinctions happened in the history of Earth!!!!
The new era of mass-extinction started 10,000 years ago by first human hunters and has been accelerating since then. Human kind is no longer dependent on hunting in order to survive and yet we are pursuing other activities even more harmful to the ecosystems of Earth.  It is not rational to continue this anti-environmental behavior and it must be recognized as a crime (as has been for many species in many countries) and therefore be discouraged by all Media including social networks such as Instagram. Our life is tightly bound to other species’. So whatever we do for them we do for our own kind


3- Many of the photos represent illegal hunting’s:
 Hunting of elephants is illegal in most countries and even ivory trade has become illegal to stop the killing of them. Hundreds of NGOs and many governments are working hard to prohibit this deadly trade. Unfortunately one can easily find photos of elephants with huge ivories murdered by hunters who are posing by their side on Instagram!!!
This is while many other less known species are under protection of their Governments and Instagram can not detect them from legal (but still violent) hunts.


4 - Facebook did this after a petition on change.org asked for it .Why can't Instagram do the same?

Instagram as a worldwide social network popular with hundreds of millions of users including children and teenagers is aware of the responsibilities brought to the founders by its growing popularity and has therefore made strict rules on nudity and is also able to do the same for violence against animals .

Dear Instagram please do this for our beloved Earth .

 

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DonyaPetition Starter

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Kevin Systrom
Kevin Systrom
CEO of Instagram

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