GoDaddy in doghouse over puppy-flogging Super Bowl ad

Re: So it's okay to...

It's more the other way around - it is important for the purchaser to see first-hand where the puppy comes from. This isn't just to alleviate the suffering of animals, but is also for the benefit of the well-intentioned buyers looking for a family pet - intensively (in)bred animals that have been removed from their mother too soon can exhibit bad behavioural traits. There are also a fair few animals that have been bred in Europe and supplied with forged veterinary certificates - this means there is a risk of the animal being seized and placed in quarantine for months, at the great expense of the unwitting buyer and the heartache of little Suzie.

You're clearly not a dog lover, and that's fine. However, don't knock the efforts to make life more difficult for arseholes and criminals.

As you say, there are plenty of things that can be sold online, so it would be easy enough for GoDaddy to find another example to illustrate their services.

>They never will be a customer anyway as they all still live in their Mommy's basement....

Actually, you'll find that overwhelmingly they are independent adults, often with families of their own.

Re: Animal rights are no laughing matter, and to portray them as such is cruel and irresponsible.

If you're a bleeding-heart Veganist, then I'll be renouncing my membership of these boards. I have absolutely ZERO time for veganists. They can slowly kill themselves if they want, but I won't be made to feel guilty for eating the diet I was designed by evolution to eat. Humans can no more extract nutrition from plants than a tiger can.

I've read about the most heinous acts of animal cruelty committed by vegans, mainly forcing carnivorous animals to eat herbivorous diets.

Humans are the only animals which decide that eating to their evolutionary genetic dietary blueprint is somehow 'wrong'. When was the last time a lion suddenly thought "Killing zebra, gazelle and wildebeest is cruel, I'll just graze the Savannah like they do…"?

Our bodies aren't designed to extract nutrition from plants, a vegan diet is almost 100% nutrient-free.

Re: Sigh @John 104

The problem is that the whining libtards want this "handwringing" to be the way EVERYTHING works. THEY are the ones behind the "Thought Police" concept, the Nanny state, Group-think, New-speak, etc.

Their mindset is "You must be protected at all costs as you are obviously too stupid to make any decisions on you own" when it is they and their policies, we need protection from.

ANYTHING that ruffles the feathers of the basement brigade will earn their ire. Even if it never happened or couldn't happen, they will react and strike out blindly. After all, they have the time since most of them don't have a real job.

Re: This is going to annoy Americans

They all appear to be gun-toting, flag waving right-wing facists of varying hues.

Sounds like UKIP.

Re: This is going to annoy Americans

You can be to the right of the Tory party and still be considered a socialist or a liberal in parts of US. They don't really know what one is, apart from the fact that the First Amendment doesn't apply to them and they shouldn't be allowed to say their piece.

Re: This is going to annoy Americans @AC

Unfortunately, half the USA is run by left leaning liberal morons who want to buy the vote of the lazy underachievers while preventing anyone else from getting rich enough to tell the rat race to piss off. Robin Hood economics doesn't work.

You can tell who the "Gun toting flag waving facists" are as they are the only ones who work for a living.

Tell me how well that socialism is working for you folks? You don't have an economy to speak of (EU or Individual countries) and what little is there, is tanking it. You can't continue to give away what doesn't exist.

There will be even LESS jobs as a result of your preferred government style so even more handouts will occur until (it may have already happened) there are less people working than on the dole. Welcome to Greece! Your money has no value to them, why should they live up to their obligations?

Re: Not New

Have an upvote. I too, think they follow the model of "all publicity is good publicity". So by not having to show the ad, they got more publicity than if they had spent the money and broadcast it. In some ways, it's admirable that they save X millions of dollars (yeah.. the spots are that pricey) and generate X times more publicity only for the cost of filming it. Ain't free-enterprise grand? And it's wonderful for them that the media and hand-wringers are known to be that stupid and play right into their plan.

@ W. Anderson Re:

Since I am not going to pick a hosting company (Go Daddy is not an ISP AFAIK) based on a TV ad, they might as well show nicely clad young ladies.

I would rather look at them then at rows upon rows of racks of servers.

Not that I live in the States or I am interested in the Superbowl anyway. Just saying.