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

  • mar_k [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    Surprised by these comments. I don't think users posting gore should be illegal, but I think sites should be legally mandated to have strict content policies on taking it down, and should actually have to enforce it. We shouldn't make gruesome videos with no political/educational/historical context (which OP obviously isn't talking about) readily available. No sane person wants to ban showing George Floyd's murder or Guantanamo Bay torture photos... but I really wish I hadn't seen a dog stabbed in the face on instagram when I was 12. Not to mention there's whole shock value snuff sites one google search away.

    This isn't an impossible task, it's not any more difficult to enforce than say requiring sites to ban CP (although obviously that's much worse). It's usually pretty easy to differentiate between the intention of explicit content, for example, showing a naked child is generally only illegal if it's in a sexual context, which is why Nirvana's famous album cover wasn't censored, or the Mai Lai massacre "napalm girl" photo is fairly well known