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>> "Speagle vividly recalls the first video he saw in his new assignment. Two teenagers spot an iguana on the ground, and one picks it up by the tail. A third t
by toss1 7y ago
>> "Speagle vividly recalls the first video he saw in his new assignment. Two teenagers spot an iguana on the ground, and one picks it up by the tail. A third teenager films what happens next: the teen holding the iguana begins smashing it onto the street. “They beat the living shit out of this thing,” Speagle told me, as tears welled up in his eyes. “The iguana was screaming and crying. And they didn’t stop until the thing was a bloody pulp.”
>>"Under the policy, the video was allowed to remain on Facebook. A manager told him that by leaving the video online, authorities would be able to catch the perpetrators."
Utterly disgusting and inhumane policy on facebook's part.
Continuing to display abject animal cruelty only lowers the bar for would-be imitators.
There have also been shown to be strong links between animal cruelty and human cruelty, including murder.
To be clear, the ONLY proper way to handle this is to immediately take it down and file a report with the relevant police agencies. Expecting the local police agencies to maintain the same staff of 30,000 people to monitor FB posts for crime is stupidly absurd.
This is at best depraved indifference on FB's part, and more likely a deliberate dishonest rationalization to keep posted something extreme that will get lots of 'views' and 'engagement'.
This is only one of millions of examples, including cooperating with the Russian / Cambridge Analytica / etc groups to corrupt elections in the US, England, and elsewhere.
Simply put, Facebook is deliberately poisoning society for profit, and far worse than any tobacco company ever did.
They need to be shut down. Now. There are far better ways to do everything FB claims to do.
(edit: add police report paragraph)
- toss1 7y agoAt the very least, FB must be held to account as editors. FB vigorously opposes this. However, with 1) a staff of 30K++ screeners, 2) who knows how many moderators, etc, 3) many layers of management decisions and policy on what is and is not allowed on the platform and the reasons why/why not, 4) extensive human & algorithmic promotion and demotion of content, they are absolutely actively editing their site. This is arguably even more extensive editing than from any print or media organization. The only reason FB wants to avoid the "editing" label is so they can edit as they please. I.e., they want to edit for 'engagement' and profit, not for social responsibility. This cannot remain out of control without consequences, which we are already seeing in society.
- iBasher 7y agoAfter trying to find the video I've found that iguanas are an invasive species in Florida and blunt force trauma to the head is the legal "humane" way to kill the invasive species. Not sure if that's what's going on in the video, and if it took multiple swings it certainly wasn't done correctly but maybe look into it before assuming things.
- toss1 7y agoThere are plenty of invasive species that I'm 100% in support of eradicating from their invaded territories. This is no justification for cruelty of any kind, nor promoting cruelty, which this video and Facebook does by leaving it posted. No assumptions needed. Assume that you are 100% correct, the species is undesirable invasive and that is the proper procedure. Repeatedly bashing their head while the creature is obviously screaming in pain is blatant cruelty. Not only do all the previously stated reasons to pull the video & report it to the police still stand, you provide yet another reason to pull it -- it shows a horribly bad example of how to do it, providing negative instruction and promoting bad & cruel technique. Moreover, based on this and numerous other articles and events (e.g., leaving posted a doctored video defaming the person 3rd in line for the US Presicency), this sort of behavior is fully consistent with Facebook's modus operandi. Simply, FB are happy to poison society for profit, and disingenuously justify it in the name of 'free discourse' and by claiming to have no editorial control. We must at the very least hold them responsible for their content.
- igravious 7y agoUser's account is new and the name is "iBasher" (iguana basher?). Proceed with caution.
- toss1 7y agoOops, yup, I don't even usually check user names, not accustomed to trolls on here. Some of the responses and voting patterns are indeed starting to indicate that an infestation of trolls is starting...