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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?
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
That's one of several ways to get a Rhino horn.
Neutral.. to matters that do not directly concern me
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.
On the other hand, the stuff is already supposed to be illegal. So what are they doing exactly? Pledging to obey the law? A lot of this stuff doesn't have regional exceptions like gambling, alcohol, or porn.
A Pirate and a Puritan look the same on a balance sheet.
On the other hand, the stuff is already supposed to be illegal.
It's illegal to commercially import ivory. But if you already have it here, you can still sell it. A full ban was proposed a few years ago but ran into opposition.
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?
Never nice to see another conspiratorial daydream posted on slashdot, but it's not unexpected these days. There's nothing new about these laws, in fact most of the planet have been bound to them for decades by international treaties, refusing to cooperate with NGOs working on international anti-trafficking efforts would attract unwanted scrutiny from dozens of different governments.
And did you exchange a walk on part in the war for a lead role in a cage? - Pink Floyd.
So we put everything else on hold until we can stop the FF juggernaut"?
I don't think you've thought that thru? - how long before food riots vs how long before the "planet is cooked"?
And did you exchange a walk on part in the war for a lead role in a cage? - Pink Floyd.
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.