Comments found on the page include calls to shoot, castrate and rape animal abusers and feed them to the animals….
Paw Justice’s website claims to have SPCA, TV3 and Maori Television among its sponsors. TV3 and C4 are considering asking the group to remove station logos from the Paw Justice website.
One former fan has laid complaints with police, Facebook, Netsafe, the Charities Commission, TV3 and the SPCA. “It just seems off the wall that nobody seems to realise that these comments are out of hand,” the complainant said.
The Facebook comments are moderated, or edited, but the complainant said the Paw Justice moderators had no moral compass, and “not only allow [abuse] but they seem to encourage it”.
So they are moderating the forum, but making a deliberate choice to approve extreme comments. That’s worse than running an unmoderated group that gets out of hand.
“At what point does a charitable organisation become accountable for a situation like this? They are inciting violence.”
But Paw Justice, set up by stuntmen Craig Dunn and Shaughan Campbell, says its campaign aims to promote good pet ownership. “You’re going to get extreme people from time to time who just want to mouth off,” Mr Dunn said.
He had deleted abusive or inflammatory comments and emailed a “handful of people” who used profane language, banning one person from the website.
Mr Dunn said fear had to be instilled in people to stop them harming animals.
Now that’s a breathtaking statement – let’s use the threat of vigilantism and revenge to reduce animal cruelty!
Sheesh, and people get upset enough at the thought that someone who’s proven to have killed 3 times getting a compulsory maximum sentence.
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