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Tech Giants Sign Pledge With World Wildlife Fund To Prevent Wildlife Trading (mashable.com)
Kerry Flynn, writing for Mashable: Looking to buy an elephant tusk on eBay? Might not be so easy. The e-commerce giant, along with Etsy, Gumtree, Microsoft, Pinterest, Tencent and Yahoo, have signed on to a new commitment to prevent the sale of illegal wildlife products on their services. The initiative is in collaboration with the World Wildlife Fund, the International Fund for Animal Welfare and TRAFFIC, and was announced Friday to coincide with World Elephant Day. Under the new policy, companies are seeking to prohibit the sale of wild live animals and animal body parts that are sourced illegally, species that are threatened by extinction and other protected animals. That includes rhino horns, pangolin parts and turtle meat. It's the first time that conservation organizations have partnered with multiple tech companies. Prior, the WWF, for example, has worked with other organizations individually.Recently, the Indian government had accused several tech companies including Amazon of "selling" rare animals and their parts.
I mean, between this and PETA.. We're pretty much now fully anti Pokemon...
Won't someone please think of the innocent Squirtles!
I can still trade ivory on Amazon?
Nope, but Craigslist is okay.
Where am I gonna get my Rhino horn and Tiger gallbladder for my Chinese medicine????
Explain..???
I always wanted to eat the last of a species like in that Matthew Broderick movie.
What you don't realize is what goes on inside the ball..
Remember the Pokemon always get back inside the balls of their own free will after the first time; there's a reason for that.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
I'll trade you two facebook logins and four hacked twitter accounts for two panda bears and one rhino
Please help stamp out the scourge of international Sea Monkey trafficking!
the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Save the naugas!
Have gnu, will travel.
Always nice to see another monopoly cabal deciding what people should be allowed to do. I can't wait to find out what behavior they'll crusade against next.
How about fixing the worlds most pressing problem, and thats carbon. Fixing anything else is potentially a wasted effort if we end up cooking the planet.
>giant, along with Etsy, Gumtree, Microsoft , Pinterest, Tencent and Yahoo
tie it into wildlife... then quote story from another malware site CNET.. second only to Softpedia... about Microsoft's tech support base India.
>Recently, the Indian government had accused several tech companies including Amazon
FBI are not really intelligent.
I brought up that Pokemon is basically capturing wild animals and training them to fight each other.
And Namco developed a Pokémon-themed fighting game for Wii U called Pokken Tournament. Does that make it Cockfighter II?
What process do they have for determining the providence of a restricted item? The sale of most of these items is already illegal so this accord says only that the auction house will ensure the law is enforced. The result will be criminals moving their goods via Silk Road 2.5, methinks.
The cause may be good, but the ends don't justify the means. Censorship is not the answer to these sorts of problems. It can't be the answer to any sort of problem as the approach disrupts the concept of democracy. We don't have truly democratic systems now because we're excluding a significant portion of the people in our society. From immigrants and criminals to children. We need to get away from censorship and open our voting booths to everybody whose here.