After a livestreamed suicide, TikTok waited to call police

Re:After a livestreamed suicide, TikTok waited to call police by ThrowawayR2 on Friday February 07, 2020 @11:51AM (#22267878)

> "This (again) highlights the need for tech companies to take responsibility for what happens on their platform."

Does it? They took the video down and revised their processes to respond to such incidents. What other responsibilities do they have?

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Re:After a livestreamed suicide, TikTok waited to call police by TLightful on Friday February 07, 2020 @11:52AM (#22267900)

Call the police immediately.

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Re:After a livestreamed suicide, TikTok waited to call police by pantalaimon on Friday February 07, 2020 @01:01PM (#22268785)

But the person was already dead.

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Re:After a livestreamed suicide, TikTok waited to call police by TLightful on Friday February 07, 2020 @04:35PM (#22271222)

Highly likely but are you certain of that?

Are you certain a crime has not taken place?

A death has happened. PR strategy would be the furthest thing from my mind - but I'm a human, not a corporate entity.

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Re:After a livestreamed suicide, TikTok waited to call police by LatteLazy on Friday February 07, 2020 @02:43PM (#22270007)

Plus it would be reasonable to assume at least one of the many live watchers already did that...

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Re:After a livestreamed suicide, TikTok waited to call police by nomel on Friday February 07, 2020 @04:43PM (#22271291)

I don't see how that would be useful. Police are local and random internet streams are not usually traceable to a location, which is all they would be interested in.

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Re:After a livestreamed suicide, TikTok waited to call police by ryanlol on Friday February 07, 2020 @02:56PM (#22270176)

The timeline in the story seems to confirm that assumption.

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