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"Content warning: extremely graphic distressing images of people being shot in the head by PRC security forces" Not sure how this could be any clearer.
by jonny383 6y ago
"Content warning: extremely graphic distressing images of people being shot in the head by PRC security forces"
Not sure how this could be any clearer.
- mettamage 6y agoThe phrase sometimes gets a bit overused. I wasn't fully prepared for some images either.
- lasfter 6y agoDistressing can be pretty subjective, and I was definitely not expecting to be THAT distressed. Figured other people might also be caught off guard.
- oulu2006 6y agoI found this warning clear enough. I think it's a good thing to include these images, we've become too used to content moderation that we're desensitized to a lot of the atrocities that are still happening daily around the world.
- tartrate 6y agoThe images are worse than that. A picture taken at a distance of someone being shot in the head is easier to see or scroll by than a closeup of a head blown in half.
- ern 6y agoThe photo of the woman whose head was blown in half by the rifle is many years (decades?) old. It’s profoundly disturbing, but it’s been widely available for a long time. That doesn’t make it any less brutal or disturbing, but it serves as a reminder of how often we are willing to turn a blind eye to atrocities when it’s economically or politically expedient.
- frereubu 6y agoI see where you’re coming from, but perhaps something like “close-ups of mutilated bodies after execution by large-calibre weapons to the head” would give more of an indication. I didn’t expect the gore, just a wide shot of someone with a gun to their head, a bit like the famous one of the add-hoc execution in the street in Vietnam by Eddie Adams.