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A comment on Facebook removed 1.5M videos of the Christchurch attacks within 24 hours. Parent comment

Re:Facebook removed 1.5M videos of the Christchurch attacks ... by frabbit on Sunday March 17, 2019 @02:09PM (#19415366)
I think it is more that in order to prevent people watching or reading or thinking or smelling things we do not like we would have to impose a level of control which stops them reading or thinking or smelling things other people deem good and useful.
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Re:Facebook removed 1.5M videos of the Christchurch attacks ... by charlesism on Sunday March 17, 2019 @06:15PM (#19417067) 

    to prevent people watching or reading 
    or thinking or smelling things we do not like
If a person ever finds himself supporting the distribution of a snuff film, that person might do some introspection and ask how he got to that point. Because that view is straight out of A Clockwork Orange.
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