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That's what religion and their threats to companies does. But violence? We're cool with torture porn and hard violence. Up to a few years ago, there was even a

That's what religion and their threats to companies does. But violence? We're cool with torture porn and hard violence. Up to a few years ago, there was even a subreddit "watchpeopledie". There's plenty more subreddits and shock sites that focus on hyperviolence. It's normal and expected. Violence, dismemberment, and torture are cool. Sex, or even a female (not a male) nipple just destroys lives.... /cringe

justsomehnguy 4y ago
> there was even a subreddit "watchpeopledie" And it was the simplest way to show a bunch of people what would happen if they decided to skip some safety steps, especially on those high torque lathes.
- noasaservice 4y ago
  And for "this is the reason we have OSHA" in that context, I would say it's essential to show those videos. But, "watching people die" was an entertainment subreddit, not a "this is the horrible thing that happened due to lack of safety and how to prevent". At the base of it, it was a torture porn subreddit ala Saw or the 1990's VHS series 'Many Faces of Death'.
  - justsomehnguy 4y ago
    > "watching people die" was an entertainment subreddit It was, but because it was on Reddit => karma generating content => abused to hell. Compare it to r/OSHA. I'm not sure there is a way to have the content like this and somehow prevent/discourage the abuse. Though a simple disablement of post/comment karma in subreddits like this would had an immense effect, I've seen that numerous times in phpBB/derived forums in the literal "Flame" section. Disabling comments would somewhat work too, but not for the old Reddit. > 1990's VHS series 'Many Faces of Death' Yeah, fun times.
- nullc 4y ago
  The world needs more content like https://www.youtube.com/user/USCSB/videos https://www.youtube.com/user/USCSB/videos -- informative without being gore-porn.
  - justsomehnguy 4y ago
    The problem is people are lazy and ignore boring safety instructions and videos.
BizarroLand 4y ago
To a certain degree I get it. If enough of the population (well, not the human population but the financial population, where everyone is inherently not born equal) agrees that a particular thing is morally wrong then it makes sense as a business to follow the tide. To end this practice, non-religious people would need to form a bank that can facilitate electronic payments on the scope of VISA or Mastercard. That is the kind of undertaking that would need a Jeff Bezos or Elon Musk to pull off, and both of them are under the current electronic payment systems thumb. If you knew someone like Carlos Slim and they were willing to risk being blacklisted by VISA and Mastercard and having their names dragged through the mud for it while putting up the several tens of billions of dollars to try to create a successful alternative payments system then you might have a chance of creating a rival to the big 4 that websites that host fringe content could rely on for processing payments. Otherwise, you could try to crowdsource is but organizing enough people who were willing to front the money for likely vaporware would be a task difficulty on par with organizing enough people to be elected president of the united states without participating in the two major political extremist parties.

justsomehnguy 4y ago

> there was even a subreddit "watchpeopledie" And it was the simplest way to show a bunch of people what would happen if they decided to skip some safety steps, especially on those high torque lathes.

noasaservice 4y ago
And for "this is the reason we have OSHA" in that context, I would say it's essential to show those videos. But, "watching people die" was an entertainment subreddit, not a "this is the horrible thing that happened due to lack of safety and how to prevent". At the base of it, it was a torture porn subreddit ala Saw or the 1990's VHS series 'Many Faces of Death'.
- justsomehnguy 4y ago
  > "watching people die" was an entertainment subreddit It was, but because it was on Reddit => karma generating content => abused to hell. Compare it to r/OSHA. I'm not sure there is a way to have the content like this and somehow prevent/discourage the abuse. Though a simple disablement of post/comment karma in subreddits like this would had an immense effect, I've seen that numerous times in phpBB/derived forums in the literal "Flame" section. Disabling comments would somewhat work too, but not for the old Reddit. > 1990's VHS series 'Many Faces of Death' Yeah, fun times.
nullc 4y ago
The world needs more content like https://www.youtube.com/user/USCSB/videos https://www.youtube.com/user/USCSB/videos -- informative without being gore-porn.
- justsomehnguy 4y ago
  The problem is people are lazy and ignore boring safety instructions and videos.

BizarroLand 4y ago

To a certain degree I get it. If enough of the population (well, not the human population but the financial population, where everyone is inherently not born equal) agrees that a particular thing is morally wrong then it makes sense as a business to follow the tide. To end this practice, non-religious people would need to form a bank that can facilitate electronic payments on the scope of VISA or Mastercard. That is the kind of undertaking that would need a Jeff Bezos or Elon Musk to pull off, and both of them are under the current electronic payment systems thumb. If you knew someone like Carlos Slim and they were willing to risk being blacklisted by VISA and Mastercard and having their names dragged through the mud for it while putting up the several tens of billions of dollars to try to create a successful alternative payments system then you might have a chance of creating a rival to the big 4 that websites that host fringe content could rely on for processing payments. Otherwise, you could try to crowdsource is but organizing enough people who were willing to front the money for likely vaporware would be a task difficulty on par with organizing enough people to be elected president of the united states without participating in the two major political extremist parties.