> McNamee is particularly outraged by the ease with which a New Zealand terrorist used social media to broadcast his shooting attack on a mosque on March 15. As

> McNamee is particularly outraged by the ease with which a New Zealand terrorist used social media to broadcast his shooting attack on a mosque on March 15. As a result, he says, there may need to be a kill switch to shut down social media in an emergency. This sounds like moral panic, and not a well thought out argument. I absolutely agree any live streaming of such a despicable event should be targeted for take-down as quick as possible. And we could impose fines, for a lack of serious immediate response. But really a kill switch? Twitter/facebook/youtube are down for the next hour because there is some objectionable content we don't want you to see... I mean just the Streissand effect on its own could actually make it that more people go and then watch the video, on some unknown site, which isn't set up/or inclined to remove the video.