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The ''Anti-Neopian Movement'', as it has dubbed itself, is a group of societies that disagrees with what they believe to be the [[Neopets, The Website|Neopets.com]] philosophies.
#REDIRECT [[Neopets#Controversy_and_criticism]]
 
==The Arguments of the Anti-Neopians==
 
"A growing number of concerned Neopians have founded the Anti Neopian movement which seeks reveal some of the problematic issues associated with the Neopets website.
 
Some issues which have concerned people in the movement are the Scientology issue (the theory in which Scientology is promoted in Neopets itself), the Australian article: "In October of 2004, while McDonald's Corporation was promoting Neopets plushies in their Happy Meals, a story on the Australian news show Today Tonight featured a nine-year-old boy claiming that the site requires one to gamble in order to receive enough Neopoints to feed one's Neopet, or else it is sent to an orphanage.", immersive advertising which is seen by many to be immoral and unethical especially when the target demographic is children, crude chat boards on which disscussion of Satanic rituals, sexual conduct, and violence occur, and unfair freezing, which occurs very frequently especially with very little pretense or none at all.
 
The movement formally has about 1,000 members and dozens of websites. However there is widespread discontent on Neopets, so much so that some studies say that 20% of Neopians harbor similar views privately."
 
==Counter Arguements==
 
So-called Pro-Neopians believe many Anti-Neopian arguements to be unfounded, or founded on poor research or the creator's emotions. They argue:
 
The links with '''Scientology''' are tenuous at best, and although it is a religon that has been criticised, so has every other single religon in history. By using tenuous links to this faith as an arguement, the arguers are not embrassing multiculturalism and are expressing a prejudice.
 
Allegations of 'crude chat boards' (talks of Satanism, sexuality and violence) cannot be used in arguement as [[The Neopets Team]] not only do not endorse and support this use of their chatboards but do everything in their power to stop these discussions taking place, as their website is family orientated, without closing the boards down altogether.
 
Anti-neopian views of freezings are somewhat innaccurate: freezing only occasionally take place without pretence. So-called ''ice-bots'' that were thought to freeze automatically have been confirmed to not exist: only employed moderators at Neopets can freeze players, and a player can appeal to the staff via e-mail if he or she thinks they were frozen wrongly. Besides which, the website is not a public service: no one has the inherent 'right' to use it.
 
''Phenylalanine'' wrote an article for [[PinkPT]] in response to the Australian Today Tonight story. The article can be found [http://www.pinkpt.com/rr_defendingneopets.htm here].
 
==External Links==
 
*[http://www.antineopian.org The Anti-Neopian]
*[http://www.freewebs.com/antineopets/ Anti-Neopets]

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