PETA can continue to do whatever crosses its mind as long as the money keeps coming in. There’s not going to be any mass public uprising against them that they can’t counter with cash.
They would NEVER jump a shark! How cruel is that to these fine tigers of the deep? You should be ashamed of yourself for even putting such horrible thoughts into words! Sea kitten killer!
I should have been more specific. Since these people are suiing to recover as much of their money as possible, and the domain name is the most valuable asset, it’s a pretty fuckin’ stupid of PETA to expect them to give it away.
Maybe they wanted the sex.com domain to expand on what I consider their most valuable contribution to public discourse: convincing models and actresses to pose nude for their ads.
Perhaps they could expand it into a paysite: “I’d rather do hot girl-on-girl action than wear fur.”
As has been pointed out PETA was never relevant. To people with no real interest in animal rights* and protections PETA comes off as a bunch of ineffective crazy whackjobs. To people who are interested in animal rights PETA comes off as a bunch of ineffective crazy whackjobs who hurt the cause of fighting for real reforms in animal rights. They go to the extreme, where some organizations will quietly lobby for political reforms for livestock farming or commercial fishing, which is actually doing something, PETA goes for the craziness of wanting people to call fish “sea kittens”. So really PETA is only relevant to PETA.
*I kind of dislike the term “animal rights”, it makes it sound like we want them all turned loose and given voting rights. “Protections” is probably a better word for what we want.
I’m curious if anyone else has had a run-in with PETA personally. I don’t want to hijack this thread with my story on why I hate PETA, so I started a new thread here.
Well, if they can start us thinking of PETA when we think of sex–if everyone looking for a sex.com site ends up on a PETA site–then that’s bound to kill a lot of moods (and boners), and over time, possibly lead to a reduction of the human population, which means more room for animals. They’re just thinking long-term ;)–to the extent that the term “thinking” ever describes anything PETA does.