Why is it okay for videos of people being brutally killed allowed on the internet?

    • UlyssesT
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      • SuperNovaCouchGuy2 [any]
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        1 year ago

        Sir I think we are confusing a few things here:

        1. I do not dare condemn grief, it is not my intention nor my right. Rather, I think it unwise for any 21st century authority to use time and energy to ban videos of people dying on the internet as opposed to issues like food security or offering aid to those left behind. If the deceased or their relatives want the videos taken down then that would be their wish and the government can honor it, but it is not a decision for the government itself to take imo.

        2. I would never dare use such a demonic argument against ending the oppression of the citizenry by the police, my funko pop collection is not large enough for that level of mental gymnastics.

        3. I don't think that everything should be legalized, I agree that atrocities like murder and rape should be forbidden. My argument is that any capitalist government cannot be trusted as an authority responsible for the censorship of and punishment for hosting videos of people dying.

        4. You bring up societal will, which is a good point and is I think the real problem here. Most "gore" (violent death on camera) is due to workplace accidents, road accidents, fights (social alienation), suicides, and infrastructure failures, things that the government of a country is supposedly working to prevent. I would be very upset if the government decided to expand the list of reasons to bolster the warped criminal justice system with viewing the result of its failures on the internet.

        5. The opinions shared here by this account are insane and heavily engineered by the FBI, CIA, <insert glow in the dark organisation here>, etc. They should not under any circumstances be used as the party line for a leftist organisation.

        6. What are the detrimental effects of a small sample of sickos watching people die on the wider population? Is the problem that people watch violent death or the fact that people die violently in preventable ways?

        "ACTUALLY your dead family members don't deserve to be grieved or avenged no matter what injustice killed them, because they are dead heaps of flesh! What about the concerns of the living, huh? Except you living that are concerned with grieving the dead! That's stupid and a waste of time and energy, you irrational widow, you irrational orphan! Get schwifty!"

        My sides left the country imagining a redditor saying this at a funeral and getting beaten up.

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          • SuperNovaCouchGuy2 [any]
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            1 year ago

            Well I think that snuff films classify as murder (people killed for the sake of the camera) and therefore should be banned because of that, I don't think content like that should be legal or legalized. I am referring more to the common violent content shared on the internet which involves horrific deaths that happen to be recorded on camera spontaneously out of coincidence.

            I agree that it makes sense for the government to give an option to people as to whether, in the event of their death being recorded on camera, they would want the videos taken down for privacy's sake. The decision should be in the hands of the citizen and their family, not the government.

            To the in-effective altruists I will say that they are mad for considering the opinions of their fanfiction omnissiah 9000 gorillion years in a future that only exists in their imagination more important than... solving world hunger.

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              • SuperNovaCouchGuy2 [any]
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                By banning I mean hunt down the murderers who profit from their killings and shut down the site permanently. I do not agree that all government regulation is futile, for instance, the manufacture of nuclear weapons should be banned wholesale by any government (unless the BETA invade or something).

                Furthermore, in my view, a video which coincidentally captures a violent death is a sincere snapshot of reality at the time and it in itself is neither good nor bad. However, I do acknowledge that there are sick fucks (e.g. les francais) who use free speech as an excuse to get a rise out of mocking and belittling the victims of a tragedy through such videos. The issue I see with banning the videos themselves is that the bullies will remain bullies and move on to something else. After all they are the products of a capitalist society where human life and death is cheap.

                Rather I think it would be better to ban the behaviour, as in allow the archival of gore away from sites where people can be accidentally traumatized by stumbling upon it, presented with sobriety without a comment section. The best strategy would be to build a world such that human life is treasured and everyone is taken care of, reducing levels of sick fuckery.

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