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Should the beheading video be censored?
Censorship probably isn't the right word. Private companies like Youtube and Twitter can legally suppress whatever they like. Its more a question of values than legality. What do you think?
a couple of takes.
http://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2014/08/22/james-foley-video-grim-but-owe-him-bear-witness/wWG9Jkprv49QJbA28BG8wM/story.html?hootPostID=79ba05eb3a096252ee6396187b55f1c8
https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/08/21/twitter-facebook-executives-arbiters-see-read/
a couple of takes.
http://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2014/08/22/james-foley-video-grim-but-owe-him-bear-witness/wWG9Jkprv49QJbA28BG8wM/story.html?hootPostID=79ba05eb3a096252ee6396187b55f1c8
https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/08/21/twitter-facebook-executives-arbiters-see-read/
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LMAO..of course, how silly of me.
Crooow:This music would work better with women in bikinis shaking all over the place. I guess that's true of any music really.
This.
It's good to watch it keeps up the anger and shows people what these nutjobs actually do. A lot of folks just don't realize how brutal these nutjobs actually are.
Yeah I am fine with something that at least makes you play like you are 18 to view it; however parents shouldn't be letting their kids be watching whatever they want on line anyway. If people are worried little Jbilly Jr will see something bad then maybe they shouldn't let them have free reign of the computer.
I don't think it should be censored. Same with 9/11 videos.
It offers the value of clarifying rather than obscuring the nature of the enemy. I feel that has to be worth something.
I'll never watch one, but that doesn't mean I don't think other adults should be prohibited from seeing it.
Exactly.........
There are no download services that have reliable method for verify age.
Bad people aren't just stories. **** was a real man, same as us. I see a danger in putting these people in some other class, as if they aren't humans. They are humans at our worst and we would be remiss to forget that.
Actually, since you gave full disclosure with your aversion to Saw movies..
I was the boy that told on himself, through tears, the first time I saw a woman's boobies in a Playboy. I was so ashamed. My dad laughed.
I also don't think that stuff like this "turns" people.
It's my job to protect my kids, way I see it.
Crooow:This music would work better with women in bikinis shaking all over the place. I guess that's true of any music really.
Wait a **** minute...I thought it takes a village. What kind of parent are you trying to run your kids lives...I should call CPS right now.
So the simple answer is don't watch it if you don't want to. What is right for some isn't right for all. Sure lock it down to those 18 and older (but on the internet that isn't going to work worth a ****). I don't want my kids to see it, they are far too young to know about this kind of crap. But they sure as $hit won't find it on the web either, because when I do let them on the computer I am sitting right there watching what the heck they are doing.