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> you create demand for future shock content at expense of human lives The way you phrase this makes it sound like you think people intentionally create these
by techrat 5y ago
> you create demand for future shock content at expense of human lives
The way you phrase this makes it sound like you think people intentionally create these videos where people die just to post it to LiveLeak for people to be entertained by.
A lot of it was stuff that was going to happen anyway that happened to be caught on film.
- spoonjim 5y agoThe things happening on LiveLeak would happen anyway but the videotaping wouldn’t happen without an audience.
- techrat 5y ago> the videotaping wouldn’t happen without an audience. Utter bullshit and you know it. It didn't have an audience until it was uploaded. By that point it was already recorded. People have always recorded events throughout history for as long as they were able to be recorded. Was the Hindenburg disaster recorded in the hopes that something awful would happen so it could 'have an audience'?
- spoonjim 5y agoLOL, this is some kind of Poe’s Law thing. Anyhoo the reason that these cartel tortures are filmed is to send to the family and associates of the victim and others who would think of working against the cartel. The purpose is to scare the fuck out of anyone trying to disrupt or compete with the cartel. The audience is the only reason it is filmed. Before phones they would just leave the flayed head in the town square or similar.
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