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There's nothing illegal about sharing this, unlike child pornography.
by ikeboy 8y ago
There's nothing illegal about sharing this, unlike child pornography.
- skybrian 8y agoWhich doesn't mean Facebook couldn't ban them anyway.
- Rychard 8y agoA company can ban users from their platform for any reason, though.
- avh02 8y agoIIRC the content is illegal in New Zealand - remember reading a mention of it's possession being banned due to the video being objectionable content or something
- RIMR 8y agoWe're not talking about legal compulsion - we're talking about doing what's right. In the grand scheme of things, the murder of 49 people is objectively worse than the rape of a single child. Facebook shouldn't have a problem getting rid of people who upload this, as anyone who would do so is not the kind of person that Facebook should want as users. But at the end of the day, Facebook only cares about money.
- ng12 8y agoFacebook bans people who violate the TOS. I don't know why you think they don't.
- WhatIsDukkha 8y agoBecause there is zero indication of it in this statement.
- amanzi 8y agoThis content was classified as illegal in NZ and so Facebook needs to comply with NZ law if they wish to continue operating here.
- ng12 8y agoClassified as illegal after the fact. You can't punish users for sharing a video that was retroactively declared illegal by a country they don't live in.
- CharlesColeman 8y ago> Classified as illegal after the fact. You can't punish users for sharing a video that was retroactively declared illegal by a country they don't live in. This comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19435419 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19435419), states that according to NZ law, the video was "born illegal." [1] [1] term inspired by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Born_secret https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Born_secret
- ng12 8y agoThat's why I said "retroactively declared illegal".
- CharlesColeman 8y agoI took the comment to mean that there's a set of criteria that makes all matching videos illegal from when they're created, not just from when an authority declares the video matches the criteria (which could just be viewed as confirmation).
- lancewiggs 8y agoIf someone posts a video that is obscene then that's a crime at the time, even if the video is not spotted until later. Similarly if someone murders someone it's a crime when the event happens, even if it is not found out until later. In all cases ignorance of the law is not a defence. And if someone does this from another country then most countries have extradition treaties in place.