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Honest question: what's the difference between this and, say, 9/11 videos? Is it the shooter's intent? If so, I want to point out that 9/11 was orchestrated so
by jquery 8y ago
Honest question: what's the difference between this and, say, 9/11 videos? Is it the shooter's intent? If so, I want to point out that 9/11 was orchestrated so that it would be covered by major news networks.
>This isn't a grey area, it was the murder of 50+ people.
And 9/11 was the murder of 3000 people. Are you in favor of censoring videos of 9/11?
- panarky 8y agoHonest question: what's the difference between this and, say, ISIS beheading videos? Are you in favor of Facebook freely disseminating ISIS recruitment material?
- jquery 8y agoUntil this event, Reddit was happily sharing loads of beheading ISIS beheading videos, so was Facebook and Twitter but I never joined those communities. Should videos/images of intentional death be banned? In my opinion, no, I don’t see the common good served by such a law, unless we have a head of USA censorship deciding which videos of death are ok and which are not. This is only being censored because the shooter clearly wished it to be shared... and in doing so the censors are making sure every curious person takes a look. Ironic.
- a-saleh 8y agoIn my opinion, the 24/7 coverage that was fueled by the tragic images was a mistake.
- jquery 8y agoI agree, but would you make it illegal to show the images? These are being blocked at the ISP level (in NZ) which is extreme.
- vl 8y agoEven better question if currently well-known leaked video of US gunship firing and killing children among others and now hosted on YouTube should be taken down. How YouTube and Facebook should know which videos to take down?
- ElCapitanMarkla 8y agoI think that is a different category again. The US govt. didn't share that video to profit from it in terms of driving recruitment, etc. That video was shared in criticism of them.