I would be really hesitant to ban gore. The Collateral Murder video probably counts as gore, as well as a lot of other videos of US warcrimes. Doing journalism inside a warzone will show the reality of what war is like.
Agreed. There are journalistic reasons to post videos that contain gore. There is also the matter of medical documentation/research being posted.
The worst of it is illegal already but, like porn, it's difficult to monitor and contain. Not that there shouldn't be an effort but the infrastructure to broadly curate and monitor internet uploads is not there yet.
I don't remember Collateral Murder having any visible gore, though it's very grainy. I struggle to remember any truly didactic video that has gore other than the killings of Osama and Gaddafi (for slightly different reasons, of course). Then again, I've only seen a handful of videos of warcrimes.
Perhaps photos of slavery and lynchings? I can only speak for myself, but being in 4rd grade and seeing black people being whipped and lynched while dozens of white people are just standing around smiling and chuckling like it’s a festival with friends started my hatred for this country.
Although I don’t deliberately seek it out, whenever I look stuff up about colonial periods in countries I’ll often come across some pictures of a British or French guy triumphantly standing over headless/limbless corpses/bodies because they disrespected their masters, and it reinforces my hatred for the west and sometimes sheds light on activities I never knew occurred in those areas.
An intact corpse (as in most lynchings) isn't gore. I suppose open wounds count as gore, but I was thinking on the level of disembowelment or "canoeing," tbh.
I would be really hesitant to ban gore. The Collateral Murder video probably counts as gore, as well as a lot of other videos of US warcrimes. Doing journalism inside a warzone will show the reality of what war is like.
Agreed. There are journalistic reasons to post videos that contain gore. There is also the matter of medical documentation/research being posted.
The worst of it is illegal already but, like porn, it's difficult to monitor and contain. Not that there shouldn't be an effort but the infrastructure to broadly curate and monitor internet uploads is not there yet.
I'm convinced by your take.
I don't remember Collateral Murder having any visible gore, though it's very grainy. I struggle to remember any truly didactic video that has gore other than the killings of Osama and Gaddafi (for slightly different reasons, of course). Then again, I've only seen a handful of videos of warcrimes.
Perhaps photos of slavery and lynchings? I can only speak for myself, but being in 4rd grade and seeing black people being whipped and lynched while dozens of white people are just standing around smiling and chuckling like it’s a festival with friends started my hatred for this country.
Although I don’t deliberately seek it out, whenever I look stuff up about colonial periods in countries I’ll often come across some pictures of a British or French guy triumphantly standing over headless/limbless corpses/bodies because they disrespected their masters, and it reinforces my hatred for the west and sometimes sheds light on activities I never knew occurred in those areas.
An intact corpse (as in most lynchings) isn't gore. I suppose open wounds count as gore, but I was thinking on the level of disembowelment or "canoeing," tbh.
Fair enough on the dismemberment stuff.
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