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because he was dumb enough to post it in the first place? and he didn't even get punished for it until the huge wave of backlash youtube received. hell it took
by swang 9y ago
because he was dumb enough to post it in the first place? and he didn't even get punished for it until the huge wave of backlash youtube received. hell it took them a week to bother making an announcement, like they were waiting and hoping it would die down instead of having to actually enforce their own rules.
- prostoalex 9y agoI haven’t seen a single video by the guy, but the linked NYT article seems to imply it displayed gory details of someone who committed suicide recently. Would it be possible that such grisly scene would turn some teens (which were his main audience, from my understanding) off the topic of suicide? In a way that raw photos and videos of war atrocities horrify us but force us to introspect on the value of life and peace?
- ars 9y agoI watched it. It had a shot of the guy hanging from a tree with his face blurred out. That's it. No gore. And they don't go close to the body. But do talk about it while staring in shock. He talked a bit about suicide, and about being shocked to actually see a dead body. I didn't watch the whole thing (not really that interested in what he has to say), but the part I saw didn't seem like such a big deal to me. Maybe I'm missing something? Is it the simple fact that they show a [partly blurred] dead body? Something else? (I hope I can actually ask this here. It seems like people are really sensitive about it, so I'm hoping not to get attacked for asking. But I really don't see what the big deal is.)
- threeseed 9y ago1) He was smiling and joking at the scene. 2) He failed to report the incident to police despite being close to the station and having a phone. 3) The rest of that video had a wealth of racist and disgraceful content. 4) He exploited the incident for monetary gain.
- jackvalentine 9y agoI don’t know what your threshold for gore is, but it was a man hanging by a rope around his neck from a tree. I’d never seen it in HD... just the famous historic “strange fruit” lynching photographs. It was confronting but not particularly gross in my opinion. I agree with you that there might be the scratchings of an effective lesson there but sadly the edit of the video didn’t really do it.
- ascorbic 9y agoQuite the opposite. Reporting details of suicides has been proven to lead to an increase in attempts, and for attempts to be more successful. The Samaritans in the UK has good media guidelines on reporting of suicide: https://www.samaritans.org/media-centre/media-guidelines-reporting-suicide https://www.samaritans.org/media-centre/media-guidelines-rep...
- lozenge 9y agoFYI, they also recommend describing a suicide as "completed" rather than "successful".
- DanBC 9y agoI prefer the National Union of Journalist guidelines. I frequently talk to reporters about the way they report suicide, and when I was using the Samaritans guidance journos would almost always say "but fredom of speech". Giving them guidance written by other journalists (and then giving them the Samaritans guidance) stopped them saying that. https://www.nuj.org.uk/documents/nuj-guidelines-for-responsible-reporting-on-mental-health/nuj-guidelines-for-reporting-mental-health-and-death-by-suicide.pdf https://www.nuj.org.uk/documents/nuj-guidelines-for-responsi... https://www.nuj.org.uk/news/guidelines-on-reporting-on-mental-health-suicide/ https://www.nuj.org.uk/news/guidelines-on-reporting-on-menta...