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How do you feel about someone livecasting their own suicide, then, to take your position to an extreme?
by BadCookie 15y ago
How do you feel about someone livecasting their own suicide, then, to take your position to an extreme?
- jQueryIsAwesome 15y agoPromoting suicide ≠ snuff films
- tweak2live 15y agoI feel like censoring it would be unethical, while refusing to host it would simply be poor form. Livecasting of own suicide: freedom of expression + freedom to make choices with regard to own life. Edit: This is not to imply that Tumblr is not entitled to do whatever they damn please with their own website. But, should someone build a website specifically for livecasting suicides I would very much disagree with its censorship.
- pjscott 15y agoI consider suicide extremely sad, and would not feel particularly inclined to watch the video. Why are we even thinking about censorship in this hypothetical scenario? What good would censoring the video do? Put a warning on it saying that it's NSFL, maybe run a free banner ad next to it for a suicide prevention hotline. Those things are reasonable, productive responses. Censorship of the video would be as symbolic as waving a flag, and about as useful.
- BadCookie 15y agoIt is not just a hypothetical. See http://news.cnet.com/report-teen-commits-suicide-on-justin-tv/ http://news.cnet.com/report-teen-commits-suicide-on-justin-t... Censoring the video may actually have prevented the suicide, because viewers were egging him on. It's hard to know.