Honest question: what's the difference between this and, say, ISIS beheading videos?
Are you in favor of Facebook freely disseminating ISIS recruitment material?
Until this event, Reddit was happily sharing loads of beheading ISIS beheading videos, so was Facebook and Twitter but I never joined those communities.
Should videos/images of intentional death be banned? In my opinion, no, I don’t see the common good served by such a law, unless we have a head of USA censorship deciding which videos of death are ok and which are not.
This is only being censored because the shooter clearly wished it to be shared... and in doing so the censors are making sure every curious person takes a look. Ironic.
Even better question if currently well-known leaked video of US gunship firing and killing children among others and now hosted on YouTube should be taken down. How YouTube and Facebook should know which videos to take down?
Re:Update on New Zealand
by ElCapitanMarkla on Friday March 22, 2019 @02:44AM
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I think that is a different category again. The US govt. didn't share that video to profit from it in terms of driving recruitment, etc. That video was shared in criticism of them.
In my opinion, the 24/7 coverage that was fueled by the tragic images was a mistake.
>This isn't a grey area, it was the murder of 50+ people.
And 9/11 was the murder of 3000 people. Are you in favor of censoring videos of 9/11?