Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

PETA Wants To Sue Anonymous HuffPo Commenters

Posted by Unknown on from the turns-out-they-were-dogs dept.

MarkWhittington writes, quoting himself: "PETA is incensed over an article in the Huffington Post that details that organization's unsettling practice of euthanizing animals in a Virginia facility that many have assumed is a no kill shelter. According to the New York Post, PETA wants to sue some of the people who have left comments on the article. The problem is that, following the practice of many on the Internet, many of the comments are under assumed names or are anonymous. PETA is attempting to discover the true identities of their critics so that it can sue them for defamation."

6 of 590 comments (clear)

  1. And with this move... by centipedes.in.my.vag · · Score: 5, Insightful

    PETA pushes the article's circulation into the stratosphere, via the Streisand effect, effectively shooting themselves in the foot. Congrats, idiots.

    --
    Only on /. can I lose karma with 2x "5, Funny" posts.
    1. Re:And with this move... by Bieeanda · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Nah, this is intentional. PETA PR technique has been 100% strident and ridiculous for many years, because they long ago figured out that it gets them coverage.

  2. Re:A name for PETA by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It's only defamation if it's false. How do you sue people for telling the truth?

  3. Re:A name for PETA by tysonedwards · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The truth is in the eye of a Judge whom is best swayed by a well-crafted legal strategy.

    --
    Thirty four characters live here.
  4. Re:Oh brother by jcr · · Score: 5, Insightful

    They're rather worse than Greenpeace, IMHO. Greenpeace doesn't give money to arsonists or kill thousands of pets.

    -jcr

    --
    The only title of honor that a tyrant can grant is "Enemy of the State."
  5. Re:vs the James Rosen / Stephen Kim story by Bob9113 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    is this accurate? im really confused.

    I think you may be mistaking what are actually contrasting and often contradictory statements of discrete individuals across several communities for a monolithic statement of belief by a single collective mind.

    --
    Stop-Prism.org: Opt Out of Surveillance