Platforms' Violent Content Rules Are About to Meet The Pentagon's Firing Squad

hn_acker

The original title is: > Hey Platforms: Your Violent Content Policies Are About To Meet The Pentagon’s Firing Squad

penskymaterial

You can only cry "muh terms of service" so many times before it's dismissed with a collective eyeroll. Unfortunately they blew their wad back in 2020.

komali2

> In theory, Hasan’s family could ask X to remove the video, and then the question is whether Elon would honor that request. Why bother spending a blog post speculating like this and picking away at the rules? The platforms will all air the execution for the same reason all the tech CEOs attended Trump's inauguration.

jawns

I doubt this livestream will actually happen, but if it does, I hope people will realize ahead of time that this will not be enjoyable or entertaining to watch. A paralyzed guy, sitting in a wheelchair, will be shot, slump over, die, blood will ooze from the wound, and then that's it. His actions were murderous and atrocious, but there is no value in watching his life being extinguished in real time. Just because it is available to be seen doesn't mean it benefits us to see it. I am afraid that many people will realize that too late and have to deal with the memory, if not the pangs of conscience, of having watched a snuff film.

t1234s

We need Monday Night Rehabilitation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLts-sXlLEM

bolangi

What a fig leaf! Hollywood has drenched its entertainment content with violence for generations. At the same time, concealing images of US and its allies war crimes.

whycome

Live TV has allowed obscenities or graphic scenes when its for news/public interest (eg footage from war). It will be easy to use that as justification for this.

majorchord

Perhaps it will be streamed by Facebook or Reddit or some social media... they seem to like selective rule enforcement as it is. Or the government/Trump TV might host/stream it themselves.

ChrisArchitect

Related: Hegseth Wants Public to Watch First Firing Squad Execution Since WWII https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50011771 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50013637

klaff

Capital punishment should be abolished. These people are yet another reason why.

mr_toad

Look! There’s a dead cat on the table! Don’t mind high oil prices, inflation and the debacle in Iran.