Orkut. Home unappropriate display of our Children !

To:  Shut down Orkut

Many flickr members have had their Childrens photos stolen and posted on a website called Orkut.
It has been said to be harmless, but I think not.

THIS IS A MEMBERS DAUGHTER...

These profiles are using the exact words that are on the sign my that little is holding.

There are profiles of her and many other children under the names of chocolate and candy on there right now...

OBVIOUSLY THEY DO NOT HAVE OUR PERMISSION TO BE USING IMAGES OF OUR KIDS...

It doesnt matter how we have our " permission settings" ...
they use "screen captures" to obtain images!

Orkut, is an Internet social network service run by Google and named after its creator,
Google employee Orkut Büyükkökten

They have a "no fake profile" policy yet approx 80% of the profiles on there site are fake. Half of those are profiles set up to look like little kids. THE SITE CLEARLY STATES THAT YOU MUST BE 18 YEARS OLD OR OLDER TO CREATE A PROFILE...

This is a game for them.

These images were stolen from flickr, edited and uploaded to orkut so that these freaks can pretend they are our children.

They use them as their icon picture and then have albums full of our children...
Some of them have up to 500 contacts that are pretending to be our children too. and they have contacts and they have contacts and so on.

THIS IS AN ALARMING SITUATION!

The red tape involved in getting these images removed is pathedic.
Orkut will tell you to ask the user politely to remove the images. (yeah right!)

These "fake" profile user's just laugh saying things like...

(these are actual quotes...)

"We are many ...you are so small"

"calm down.. this is game for us"

" Your photos on flickr say "public" so we no do wrong"

"why problem? we think your baby is cute"

"The world fake is one of the methods of fun for us in the orkut"

"if you dont want people using your pictures put
it on private and only friends and your family can see"

"your child deserves an ugly mother"

You get the idea... these are morons we are dealing with and google and Orkut could care less..

These children need a voice... a voice that can be heard LOUD AND CLEAR.

Some of these parents have been trying to get their children removed from this site for almost a year and they are still on there..

Some flickr parents have found 10 -20 (if not more) different profiles featuring images of their children.

They think that because an image is marked public that they are free to do whatever they want to do with them. they see no wrong with exploiting these children. They see no wrong in assuming the identity of our innocent children.

Some of them admit to stealing hundreds of child photos from flickr and think it's a game to create new profiles and just rotate the pictures to keep pissing us off.

THIS NEEDS TO STOP AND ORKUT NEEDS TO BE SHUT DOWN!!!!

FEEL FREE TO SPEAK YOUR MIND ON THIS SUBJECT ...

EVEN IF YOU DON"T SPEAK YOUR MIND PLEASE SIGN THIS PETITION TO SHOW YOUR SUPPORT ...
WE NEED TO UNITE AS A COMMUNITY TO HELP PROTECT THE CHILDREN OF FLICKR...

PLEASE HELP US GIVE THESE CHILDREN A VOICE THAT CAN BE HEARD!

PLEASE PASS THIS ON... THE MORE PEOPLE THAT KNOW ABOUT THIS THE BETTER!!!


HOW TO HELP???

GO HERE NOW AND TELL ORKUT WHAT YOU THINK ABOUT THEM
http://help.orkut.com/support/bin/request.py?contact_type=story&hl=en-US

Sincerely,

The Undersigned

The Orkut. Home unappropriate display of our Children ! Petition to Shut down Orkut was created by and written by Jennifer Melhado (jmelhado85@yahoo.com).  This petition is hosted here at www.PetitionOnline.com as a public service. There is no endorsement of this petition, express or implied, by Artifice, Inc. or our sponsors. For technical support please use our simple Petition Help form.

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