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Gore Site Operator Arrested For Posting Video of Murder

theshowmecanuck writes "According to the Montreal Gazette, 'The owner and operator of a well-known 'real gore' website is charged with corrupting morals for posting a video allegedly depicting the murder of student Jun Lin by Luka Magnotta. Magnotta, 30, is currently in custody charged with first-degree murder in the death of the 33-year-old Chinese international student, who was killed in Montreal in May 2012. The victim's severed limbs were then mailed to political parties and elementary schools, and his torso found inside a discarded suitcase.' A news interview with the detective in charge of the case, airing on CTV as I type this, says he believes the web site hosts a lot of racist content and unimaginable violence. You should note that Canada has less free speech than in America (we have 'hate crime laws'), but there will likely be some arguments in this vein. The charge against the operator is quite rare and no-one so far remembers it ever being used before."

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  1. Severed limbs mailed to political parties? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    +1 appropriate.

    1. Re:Severed limbs mailed to political parties? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      It's a solid second choice, since the mailman won't deliver horse heads to their beds.

    2. Re:Severed limbs mailed to political parties? by xevioso · · Score: 1

      I never really understood this in the movie. No blood on the ground...they took great care in placing it there in the bed with no obvious clues...I would have thought at least there would have been a foul smell, but...oh well, that's movie magic for ya.

    3. Re:Severed limbs mailed to political parties? by quenda · · Score: 1

      .I would have thought at least there would have been a foul smell, but...oh well, that's movie magic for ya.

      Most cinemas did not have Smell-O-Rama in the '70s. And the head was fresh.

    4. Re:Severed limbs mailed to political parties? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      "is charged with corrupting morals".

      Wow! That's better then "terrorism" keyword we use. You really can nail anybody with that legal standard.

    5. Re:Severed limbs mailed to political parties? by Mr+Foobar · · Score: 2

      I never really understood this in the movie. No blood on the ground...

      Guess you never read the book, then. Coppola had to leave a lot out from the book, including how this scene got set up. Coppola had to leave so much out, he left enough material for the sequel.
      Want to know why Woltz was so pissed at Hayden at the dinner?
      Want to know happened to Sonny's goomah after his death?
      More about Johnny Fontane's career (and why Sinatra tried to stop the movie's production)?
      About the doctor who played a very significant part in the book, left completely out in the movie?
      How Michael found out about Vitelli (who bombed the car)?
      Why Michael fell for Apollonia so hard? And then why he rekindled a relationship with Kay?
      Where Neri came from, why he was tied to Michael?
      Why Don Tommasino was so big a part of the Godfather's life, and why the Godfather was so bothered by Luca Brasi?
      All that and more...

      It's all in the book.

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    6. Re:Severed limbs mailed to political parties? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I never really understood this in the movie. No blood on the ground...they took great care in placing it there in the bed with no obvious clues...I would have thought at least there would have been a foul smell, but...oh well, that's movie magic for ya.

      Lighten up, Francis.

  2. Mob rule by Impy+the+Impiuos+Imp · · Score: 1

    This kind of thing should be handled through social ostracism, not laws. Politicians leading mobs to silence people is nothing honorable.

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    1. Re:Mob rule by DM9290 · · Score: 2

      How is it "mob rule" when democratically elected representatives ban something years in advance, then an independant law enforcement agency takes someone to be tried before an independant judiciary for violating it?

      Your argument can be equally applied to the enforcement of any law whatsoever as being "mob rule".

      the law might be an infringement of the Charter of Rights and could even be overturned by the Supreme Court, but it isn't going to be influenced by the size of mob that shows up at anybody's doorstep, or what any politician wants to say about it.

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    2. Re:Mob rule by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

      This kind of thing should be handled through social ostracism, not laws. Politicians leading mobs to silence people is nothing honorable.

      So it should be handled by mob rule (social ostracism), just not by mob rule (laws). So long as it's YOUR mob, you're okay with it. Just don't anyone form or join a mob against YOU, and then it's honorable and moral. Got it.

    3. Re:Mob rule by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      This kind of thing should be handled through social ostracism

      Good plan. Let us extrapolate:

      Headline: Father beats 'gore' site operator to death over child's murder video

      Great. Everyone circling the drain.

      Let it be your kid's murder they publish. Bet that 'worldview' of yours doesn't hold up long.

    4. Re:Mob rule by Tailhook · · Score: 0

      You know, I have no love for Holder and all the other hate mongers and race baiters that have ginned up this Trayvon/Zimmerman case, but that particular story is not credible. As near as I can tell it originated from an Orlando Sentinel story that supposedly quotes some pressure group representative who claims that during a teleconference some DOJ official solicited "tips" via an email address that isn't actually "active" yet. There is no recording of this call and no other corroboration that I can find. It has merely ricocheted around the right wing echo chamber with remarkable velocity.

      There is more than enough abuse of power occurring in this matter that it isn't actually necessary to make stuff up.

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    5. Re:Mob rule by Mashiki · · Score: 3, Informative

      Yeah, actually that email address is active and has been for several days. It was even publicized by the DOJ, almost right after the not-guilty verdict was read.

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    6. Re:Mob rule by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      This kind of thing should be handled through social ostracism, not laws. Politicians leading mobs to silence people is nothing honorable.

      Nonsense. Vigilante violence is the only thing that solves this. Ostracism has no effect on people who are without shame, and I'd say we've got that category here.

    7. Re:Mob rule by Seumas · · Score: 2

      Yeah, the whole "morality" thing is bullshit. It seems repulsive and horrible and it grosses me out that people would want to see this kind of shit (I'm sure we all stumbled across things like it in the earlier days of the net) . . . but unless it is violating some sort of privacy or something . . . . I just see it as the cost of a free society. (Yes, I know this is in Canada). In a free society, things are said, presented, and done that can be highly offensive to you and that is a good thing.

    8. Re:Mob rule by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      "Democratically elected"

      If only the system worked that way.

    9. Re:Mob rule by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Democracy is mob rule. Who do you think elects those representatives? That's right: mobs.

    10. Re:Mob rule by Ash+Vince · · Score: 1

      Yeah, the whole "morality" thing is bullshit. It seems repulsive and horrible and it grosses me out that people would want to see this kind of shit (I'm sure we all stumbled across things like it in the earlier days of the net) . . . but unless it is violating some sort of privacy or something . . . . I just see it as the cost of a free society. (Yes, I know this is in Canada). In a free society, things are said, presented, and done that can be highly offensive to you and that is a good thing.

      What about the victims right to privacy? Ok, they had a right to life that was violated by their killer but didn't they also have a right to privacy? What if the victim has no clothes on when they are killed should it still be ok to publish the video of their killing?

      I actually think this is somewhat similar to child porn in that it should be illegal not just to make snuff movies, but also just to be in possession of one. This would make online distribution a definite no-no.

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  3. Summay is incorrect by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    It was used against a special fx pro, for an over realistic gore site, but it failed : http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2012/12/23/remy-couture_n_2355922.html

    1. Re:Summay is incorrect by FrankSchwab · · Score: 5, Informative

      Because the GP is referring to "The charge against the operator is quite rare and no-one so far remembers it ever being used before" from TFSummary, and brings us notice of a similar case with the same charge. "Informative" is the correct mod in this case.

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    2. Re:Summay is incorrect by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Get a brain and some reading comprehension, and see that GP isn't trying to claim it's the same case.

    3. Re:Summay is incorrect by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Thank you ! At least someone know how to parse and interpret English in context ...

    4. Re:Summay is incorrect by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      What the fuck are you talking about? No 'context' was provided, and the useless poster couldn't even fucking spell "summary" correctly.

      Hint: if many people are having trouble understanding you, it's most likely your fault, not theirs. Learn how to be explicit in your writing.

    5. Re:Summay is incorrect by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      God damn, if you're such a fucking stupid moron that you can't even get through the summary, shoot yourself in the head and get the fuck off this site.

    6. Re:Summay is incorrect by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      No one is having trouble understanding anything but you, fuckwit. If you don't have the brain power to realize he meant to write summary, I don't know how the fuck you manage to breath.

    7. Re:Summay is incorrect by cdrudge · · Score: 1

      The line from the article is that no one remembers it being used in Edmonton.

      It did fail with the case you cited with the article, but in that case it wasn't real gore, it was special fx. With this case it seems to be real gore and real victims. Not exactly an apples to apples comparison.

    8. Re:Summay is incorrect by uninformedLuddite · · Score: 1

      You are dense

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    9. Re:Summay is incorrect by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Stop projecting, fuckwit.

    10. Re:Summay is incorrect by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Looking at the other comments all agreeing with me, I'd say you're the one who's dense, especially considering you can't read. Off yourself.

  4. Re:Things like this... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Make me glad the NSA spys on everyone.

    Someone should be keeping tabs on nutbags like this.

    What happens when a nutbag joins the NSA?

  5. Re:Things like this... by Xicor · · Score: 1, Troll

    what is wrong with you? this would be a clear violation of the site owner's rights of freedom of speech in the US. the site owner didnt commit any crimes, he simply uploaded a video of it to his own site, which is protected under free speech. if you think that the NSA should be spying on people and arresting them for nonconformity... there is something seriously wrong with you. none of us want a conformity state... we want to be able to do whatever we want as long as they are protected under our bill of rights.

  6. Re:Things like this... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    If the NSA's spying is useful why did this happen?

  7. Re:Political Parties' Names by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Thats the spirit! When you don't have the mental capacity or oral dexterity to pronounce something, make fun of it so you can feel better about yourself!

  8. Re:Things like this... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Whoosh...

  9. And the torment of her family and loved ones? by bstarrfield · · Score: 5, Insightful

    There are some things simply beyond the pale in any decent society. Entertaining people through showing a grisly, cruel murder can do nothing but harm the family, friends, and love ones of the victim. It has absolutely no political, educational, moral effect, nor any deterrent to any crime. It has no value whatsoever to shock and delight those deranged enough to view a heinous act.

    The Framers had clear reasons for promoting freedom of speech, primarily to serve the political health of the nation by fostering free debate. And yes, they came from a society that still had public executions, some of which were (in England at least) just as brutal as this crime as more. But they did not create freedom of speech to promote sheer depravity. Laws exist in the context of their society, even what we consider natural law, and there are some things that a society has every damn right to ban - child pornography, and yes, showing a murder for fun.

    What must be going through the minds of this poor woman's parents? Is that pain worth a shock to an increasingly cynical population? This was beyond the pale, and does corrupt public morals by desensitizing people to murder. The owner of the site deserves these charges.

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    1. Re:And the torment of her family and loved ones? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      psst. Lin Jun was a man.

    2. Re:And the torment of her family and loved ones? by mirix · · Score: 3, Informative

      The victim was a guy, for what it's worth.

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    3. Re:And the torment of her family and loved ones? by ackthpt · · Score: 3, Informative

      [snip]

      The Framers had clear reasons for promoting freedom of speech...

      [snip]

      Canada. Not USA. Canada.

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    4. Re:And the torment of her family and loved ones? by c0lo · · Score: 1

      It has no value whatsoever to shock and delight those deranged enough to view a heinous act.
      ...
      But they did not create freedom of speech to promote sheer depravity.
      ...
      showing a murder for fun.

      You seem to imply a certain intent. Can you prove it?

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    5. Re:And the torment of her family and loved ones? by broken_chaos · · Score: 2, Interesting

      The comment has no less validity if you remove the letters "wo" from the last paragraph. There is no legitimate reason to post something like this. It's disgusting and unnecessary. Anyone who has a desire to look at it is the sort of person who should seek professional help.

      I'm Canadian, not a huge fan of the current political climate in Canada, but I can't get outraged over this. Though I will say the guy who's been arrested is a bit of an idiot for saying that Canada is a 'police state' for having confiscated computer equipment directly related to what he's been charged with... Call it a 'police state' for how the G20 was handled, not because you went and got yourself arrested for doing something that is quite likely illegal and definitely disgusting.

    6. Re:And the torment of her family and loved ones? by Motard · · Score: 3, Interesting

      It's interesting that the first three replies to this post zoomed in on a one word factual error that isn't really of any consequence with regard to the rest of the three paragraph comment. It's like they think they're going for the win.

    7. Re:And the torment of her family and loved ones? by WaffleMonster · · Score: 2, Insightful

      What must be going through the minds of this poor woman's parents? Is that pain worth a shock to an increasingly cynical population? This was beyond the pale, and does corrupt public morals by desensitizing people to murder. The owner of the site deserves these charges.

      See the problem here is others get to use the very same words to justify banning of a great number of tasteless things such as horror flicks, gratuitious violence in every movie worth seeing and public service announcements consisting of little kids taking great joy in dismembering a certain purple dinosaur.

      It always comes down to your personally shocked by obscene behavior of others therefore you feeling justified in taking that logical leap therefore such behavior ought to be illegal.

      I personally would feel better if rotton.com and every fucked up chick who digs that shit where fed to sharks... except the price of freedom is such that I must tolerate all manner of distasteful assholes in this country. When you take tolerance away the cure is worse than the disease. There are plenty of countries which enforce decency and respect thru state sanctioned violence you could move to if you felt so compelled.

    8. Re:And the torment of her family and loved ones? by elucido · · Score: 2, Interesting

      There are some things simply beyond the pale in any decent society. Entertaining people through showing a grisly, cruel murder can do nothing but harm the family, friends, and love ones of the victim. It has absolutely no political, educational, moral effect, nor any deterrent to any crime. It has no value whatsoever to shock and delight those deranged enough to view a heinous act.

      The Framers had clear reasons for promoting freedom of speech, primarily to serve the political health of the nation by fostering free debate. And yes, they came from a society that still had public executions, some of which were (in England at least) just as brutal as this crime as more. But they did not create freedom of speech to promote sheer depravity. Laws exist in the context of their society, even what we consider natural law, and there are some things that a society has every damn right to ban - child pornography, and yes, showing a murder for fun.

      What must be going through the minds of this poor woman's parents? Is that pain worth a shock to an increasingly cynical population? This was beyond the pale, and does corrupt public morals by desensitizing people to murder. The owner of the site deserves these charges.

      Fuck censorshp. A lot of stuff on the Internet can torment people for years. It's not like anything else gets deleted from the Internet.
      This is about one group of people how another group of people can be allowed to think. If you don't like Gore then don't go to the site.

    9. Re:And the torment of her family and loved ones? by Valdrax · · Score: 1

      A lot of stuff on the Internet can torment people for years. It's not like anything else gets deleted from the Internet.

      You say that like it justifies itself instead of the exact opposite.

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    10. Re:And the torment of her family and loved ones? by Qzukk · · Score: 5, Insightful

      But they did not create freedom of speech to promote sheer depravity.

      And yet if you give governments the power to ban things because they are "depraved" suddenly everyone despised by the people in power are all depraved. Funny you mentioned banning child porn, it seems that every time some government comes up with a new child porn blocklist, people find examples of exactly this misplaced label of "depravity", so you can't claim this doesn't happen.

      The founders gave the government limited powers for a reason. The governments of their time took every mile they could from every inch they could force their subjects to give, and the governments of our time are no different.

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    11. Re:And the torment of her family and loved ones? by Motard · · Score: 1

      The burden of proof required on your typical internet message board, much less Slashdot, is pretty low. But we can look at the tape in this case....

      From the TFA...

      Marek told the Ottawa Citizen he believed “people need to know what really is going on in their neighbourhoods,” saying: “They could easily walk upon a gruesome accident scene themselves and whom will they blame for being exposed to it then?”

      Yes, of course, this is a public service. If I were to take a walk and came across a dismembered body, I'd immediately ask why I wasn't informed of this sort of thing - and why I wasn't properly prepared for being exposed to this type of stuff. Goddammit, why didn't somebody post this shit to the internet so I'd be prepared for this sort of thing!

      Or, he could be a sick fuck in it for the lulz.

      I dunno.

    12. Re:And the torment of her family and loved ones? by Motard · · Score: 1

      Oh, how I wish I could send you back to the "government of their time" so you could truly appreciate the difference between what we have now and what they had then.

    13. Re:And the torment of her family and loved ones? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Reminds me of australia banning women from having small breasts.
      Seriously. Canadian police wasn't doing shit about Magnota.
      They could have arrested him before he did the murder for all the torture shit he was posting online.
      Even when best gore told them hey this guy just posted a murder vid the police did nothing.

      Now they just want to save face buy blaming this guy for exposing their uselessness.

    14. Re:And the torment of her family and loved ones? by CanEHdian · · Score: 1

      There is no legitimate reason to post something like this. It's disgusting and unnecessary.

      It might be necessary when we get a bunch of what the Dutch call "goat-wool sock" types that will claim that Magnotta is "actually a victim himself" to visualize what we're actually talking about. The down-playing usually starts immediately after the news breaks. But when Magnotta is locked away for life there's indeed no reason to distribute the video.

      If on the other hand, like the Greyhound Bus Beheader and Cannibal Vincent Lee will, Magnotta gets to go hang out at the beach, it may be time to send a reminder of what's going on.

      Yes, people can redeem themselves. But when things DO go wrong, for some reason no psychiatrist or parole board is ever held to account or considered accessories to the crime.

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    15. Re:And the torment of her family and loved ones? by Ardyvee · · Score: 3, Insightful

      To be honest, while I wouldn't want to see whatever it is that was posted (though I might so I am able to see just where it is regarding to what I allow myself to watch, and to be able to have better opinions), I think that there may be legitimate reasons to post something like this. People may want to expose themselves to this kind of content so that they know just what kind of thing humanity is capable. They might be interested in it as a source of ideas for a book, a movie or a TV series (you know, there is a whole genre around criminals and what they do). Or simply to raise awareness to those that want to listen.*

      To be honest, while there are things I wouldn't mind not seeing again and not thinking "somewhere this exists", I believe in freedom of speech. If I were to vote, I would vote against banning such content (unless given a very damn good reason, besides people not liking it). And on the other hand it is because some content exist that I know some of my limits -- what I'm capable of watching and enjoying and what I decide I would rather simply close.

      Now, I don't know what the parents may be thinking. Probably something along the lines of "why don't you respect the memory of my child" or something (assuming of course they are against this, which I don't know). But I have no idea how showing the video of the murder is a disrespect if it is what happened and in no way altered. Because that's what happened. Unless they are asking to respect what they want to remember of their child (which doesn't include getting killed), in which case I will disagree with them and disregard their request.

      *I'll admit I can't really come up with any reason somebody might want to watch it, or share it (assuming what I've read is accurate). What I came up with sounds shitty to me, too. But I reject "disgusting and unnecessary" or damaging to the family as valid reason to BAN the sharing of such content. If individuals want to take into account those reasons, they are free to do so. If I'm ever found in that position, I'll then face the question whether or not I care enough about the family of the victim and whether or not I'm okay with sharing it with others (I would not deny access to those that explicitly asked and I deemed as valid [so no 12 year old kids asking for it will get it, I'm not that crazy]). Or at least I expect to be able to make that decision instead of being forced by law to act a certain way.

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    16. Re:And the torment of her family and loved ones? by msobkow · · Score: 1

      Your argument holds true for a special effects fest movie or video.

      This was neither.

      It was video of the aftermath of an actual, honest to God someone died MURDER.

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    17. Re:And the torment of her family and loved ones? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Speak for yourself, for it is only for yourself that you can speak.

      If you don't want to see it, then look the other way. I, however, want to see it, and it is not for my entertainment but for my edification.

      Keep your squeamish and arrogant morals to yourself. Your personal experience is not a law of the universe.

    18. Re:And the torment of her family and loved ones? by msobkow · · Score: 2

      The "horror" is that the sick and twisted website operator thought the footage "entertaining" and tried to make a profit off it by posting it.

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    19. Re:And the torment of her family and loved ones? by c0lo · · Score: 3, Interesting

      The burden of proof required on your typical internet message board, much less Slashdot, is pretty low.

      You seem to assume a lot. It is up to the readers (including myself) to establish their own threshold for the level of proof.

      Or, he could be a sick fuck in it for the lulz.

      I dunno.

      Even assuming the above is correct:
      * did this sick fuck commit murders to fuel his site?
      * does anyone have the right to condemn a person on the "potential misuse of the information"?
      * even accepting morals into equation (who's morals?)... anyway: should a person be condemned because the society is "too weak in the moral sense"? I mean, what's the conceptual difference between this and prosecuting Galileo because he kept on publicly saying the Earth is moving and endangering the "good faith" of the society of his time?

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    20. Re:And the torment of her family and loved ones? by quantaman · · Score: 2

      What must be going through the minds of this poor woman's parents? Is that pain worth a shock to an increasingly cynical population? This was beyond the pale, and does corrupt public morals by desensitizing people to murder. The owner of the site deserves these charges.

      See the problem here is others get to use the very same words to justify banning of a great number of tasteless things such as horror flicks, gratuitious violence in every movie worth seeing and public service announcements consisting of little kids taking great joy in dismembering a certain purple dinosaur.

      It always comes down to your personally shocked by obscene behavior of others therefore you feeling justified in taking that logical leap therefore such behavior ought to be illegal.

      I personally would feel better if rotton.com and every fucked up chick who digs that shit where fed to sharks... except the price of freedom is such that I must tolerate all manner of distasteful assholes in this country. When you take tolerance away the cure is worse than the disease. There are plenty of countries which enforce decency and respect thru state sanctioned violence you could move to if you felt so compelled.

      This is a video of a real murder and dismemberment done in the most gruesome way possible. There's no artistic, political, or cultural value in this video, it's just horribly shocking.

      It basically comes down to this. If you believe in absolutely unfettered free speech than this video is allowed.

      If you believe in any decency restrictions at all, then this video is probably out.

      I don't agree with these charges or decency restrictions on speech, though I'd order it pulled on the grounds it shows an actual person's body being dismembered, but I think this video is so far beyond anything else that you can ban it and leave the rest of the disturbing stuff untouched.

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    21. Re:And the torment of her family and loved ones? by Motard · · Score: 1

      You're equating Galileo with this sick fuck. That's funny.

    22. Re:And the torment of her family and loved ones? by Zynder · · Score: 4, Insightful

      That is one of the classic continuum fallacies. Because the gender was wrong, then the whole argument must be wrong. Also closely related is that the debater has gotten one fact wrong therefore you cannot believe anything he says. These techniques are used when the argument itself is just so damned airtight that you have nothing to refute it. So you ridicule it (ad hominem), appeal to authority (you got it right not the debater so he's wrong on all accounts), and if you have the position/authority should those 2 not work, you appeal to the stick (It's this way and if you don't like it I'll kick your ass). Basically the OP has a solid argument that can't really be refuted by anything other than "I watch that stuff cause I want to." An argument why any of that gore would be beneficial just really can't be made. Someone prove me wrong! I bet all you can come up with is "cause I want to." If this data was not on a public facing goretube website one could make an argument that it beneficial for educating interested parties like forensic analysts, biologists, or a future criminal wanting to know exactly how to kill someone. However, this is right out in the open like youtube. This is merely entertainment of a horribly disturbing nature. I agree with OP. If this stuff gets your dick hard, you got some problems. You should seek therapy.

      Now in before the haters: I understand that "cause I want to" is a reason which is your right (at least in the USA). I defended that right for you (you're welcome). However I will not accept it as being logically valid nor even worthy of any kind of debate because it adds no insight into why you hold your position. I bet plenty of you growing up had your parents tell you "because" isn't an answer. It's not and neither was "cause I want to."

      note: the use of you/your/you're is not directly referring to Motard. I agree with him.

    23. Re:And the torment of her family and loved ones? by c0lo · · Score: 1

      You're equating Galileo with this sick fuck. That's funny.

      Just in case you did actually miss it and you are not trolling: I'm equating the prosecution of Galileo with the prosecution of this man for reasons of "challenging their society morals".
      I'm pretty sure the Inquisition at that time adopted the view of Galileo being a sick fuck that worth punishing for the potential damage his public views might have caused to the society.

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    24. Re:And the torment of her family and loved ones? by znanue · · Score: 1

      I do not find it disturbing that people consider a grisly murder entertaining. I find it disturbing that people consider a trial about a woman who allegedly murdered her kids entertaining. The notion that observing violence is somehow more obscene than pure unadulterated schadenfreude is something I'll never find myself agreeing with.

      What does it say about society that two boys who killed two people dominate the news for weeks but the deaths of 50-100 people a day to a cause we could easily help change are not remarked upon? That trial is getting more play than the school shooting, which again killed more people.

      Frankly, I would suspect people watching someone else's murder is hardly even close to the sort of depravity and lack of good character required to be in a society where tabloid news has become de facto news. As to the mother's discomfort at possibly seeing the video or the notion that a video of her son being murdered was watched by the world, then I would counter there are many invasions to our privacy and we balance those against other interests. How come if I call into 911 any news organization can file a freedom of information act and get those tapes without my consent? How can any news organization publish that I am being charged with a crime? (I could be innocent!).

      All of your arguments are designed to appeal the passions and prejudices of the reader, and thus I find it not persuasive.

    25. Re:And the torment of her family and loved ones? by Motard · · Score: 1

      And your limited experience would be a poor excuse for our society to descend back into brutal depravity.

    26. Re:And the torment of her family and loved ones? by dnaumov · · Score: 2

      There is no legitimate reason to post something like this. It's disgusting and unnecessary.

      That is not for you to decide. And shouldn't be for anyone else to decide either. No person is harmed in this and it's not like the family of the person is being forced to watch at gunpoint. If they don't like it, they can just not go to the website.

    27. Re:And the torment of her family and loved ones? by znanue · · Score: 1

      Goat wool sock types of Norway might say the same thing. But, their society with one of the lowest per capita incarcerations in the world and one of the lowest recidivism rates is not to be admired. O wait, this is also very true of the dutch, but not quite to the same degree. Still, their crime rates and their level of incarceration makes us look like the visigoths!

      Frankly, when I see a society that has so well managed its crime and punishment that it has reached untold levels of safety and human freedom in all of history, I think we should listen to what they have to say, even when it sounds preposterous.

      As to reasons to post the video, all sorts of people may learn things that could contribute in various ways to the advancement of society. Violence is no less part of the human character than charity, but we take great pains to fool ourselves about this fact. It is narrow minded in the extreme to believe that something which disgusts must, by virtue of the disgust that you are experiencing, hold no value.

    28. Re:And the torment of her family and loved ones? by Aighearach · · Score: 0

      Pointing out that ignorance of the basic facts of the situation implies you're not prepared to comment in a useful way (yet, potentially) is neither of the fallacies you list. Since you're into that big-P nonsense, I'll leave it to you to enumerate what logical fallacy it is to oppose somebody's point based on a false accusation.

      The OP may or may not have a valid generic, general point. But the OP has no way to claim that his or her generic points are applicable to this case. Actually the OP has so few details, he or she might not even know what country the events took place in.

      I'd welcome that analysis, but it sure isn't what was posted.

    29. Re:And the torment of her family and loved ones? by Motard · · Score: 0

      Now, you are equating a prosecution with a prosecution. Nothing more. When it comes to this shit, Galileo would probably say "Hang the fucker." I say that because almost NO ONE - even in our comparatively liberal society of the modern times - would say this guy is in the right.

      There's a difference between being rightfully defiant, and just being a dick.

    30. Re:And the torment of her family and loved ones? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      >
      > ... our society to descend back into brutal depravity
      >

      You are merely plagiarizing the sentiments of the 1960's anti-pornography, anti-lust, and anti-love crowd. Brutal ignorance never dies, but slithers onward in the guise of the censor.

    31. Re:And the torment of her family and loved ones? by Motard · · Score: 1

      What a wonderfully verbose way of saying you have no response.

      I salute you, sir.

    32. Re:And the torment of her family and loved ones? by pspahn · · Score: 1

      Does anyone remember the "Faces of Death" series? Granted, I have not visited this site, nor do I care to, but when I was a young teenager, I do recall having some interest in the gory footage provided in FOD.

      Did I derive any value from watching that smut? I'd say that it is quite negligible, but there was in fact some value gained. Similarly, dreams of terrifying situations provide some value to the dreamer simply for the fact that it may prepare them for a terrifying situation in real life some time in the future.

      I don't think that "cause I want to" is valid at all here. But to say that this kind of material holds absolutely zero value seems at least a little disingenuous. I'm sure there are a number of psychology students that would find this kind of material to hold at least some value. Likewise, other related professions that unfortunately have to deal with things like this may find some value.

      I freely admit, however, that any legitimate use for such material is incredibly limited. There may be a handful of viewers that have a valid use for it, but the vast majority do not. I understand that my statements are as far as this argument can realistically be stretched, which I suppose is my way of agreeing with your statement... almost entirely.

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    33. Re:And the torment of her family and loved ones? by ADRA · · Score: 1

      Most morals were established for the betterment of society, and some were established to re-enforce hierarical systems of controling a populace. Those rule may actually of supported society in times where feudal anarchies would've swept over a population, but one would argue that mass education has made such risks in modern cultures rather less worrisome.

      Now if you want to argue that society should embrace the notion of recording people as they die, I think you're barking up the wrong tree. Why not: Every leagalized execution filmed and put online for public records. Every autopsy. Every roadside accident record. All of these could arguably have some marginally positive social effects, but are the trade-offs enough to warrant the change? Probably not. People have always been and will always be afraid of death, and any overt step toward that bleak realization is going to be a social loser no matter what the social benefits.

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    34. Re:And the torment of her family and loved ones? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      As to reasons to post the video, all sorts of people may learn things that could contribute in various ways to the advancement of society. Violence is no less part of the human character than charity, but we take great pains to fool ourselves about this fact. It is narrow minded in the extreme to believe that something which disgusts must, by virtue of the disgust that you are experiencing, hold no value.

      True, but we're not talking about snails mating or people swallowing their own vomit are we? Moron.

    35. Re:And the torment of her family and loved ones? by ADRA · · Score: 1

      This from the government that legally sanctions the killing of human beings? Interesting moral pedestal you put the US on...

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    36. Re: And the torment of her family and loved ones? by Vanderhoth · · Score: 1

      No person is harmed in this

      I'm pretty sure the guy being dismembered world have disagreed. Also this is Canada and we choose to be reasonable about what free speech we allow.

    37. Re:And the torment of her family and loved ones? by Seumas · · Score: 1

      So free speech ends at the point where other people feel bad?

      I'm sure there are a lot of movies and news stories that make the victim's family relive horrible memories and emotions, too. Should those be censored or banned?

      Once again, it is important to remember that in a free society the cost of that freedom is potentially being disgusted, repulsed, or otherwise put-off. This whole site thing seems fucking hideous and grotesque and I don't know what is wrong with people who want to see that sort of thing -- but "it'll make people feel bad" is hardly justification for forbidding it.

      Now, I could see some sort of privacy assertion being reasonable. That is a different beast.

      And, again, it's a pretty dangerous thing to start going around asserting that free speech can only be applied to things which are political in nature. (Yes, I'm writing this from the aspect of the US and the Constitution; not Canada).

      Frankly, your whole viewpoint is pretty disgusting and . . . frankly your concept of free speech has nothing to do with free speech.

    38. Re:And the torment of her family and loved ones? by theshowmecanuck · · Score: 1

      This happened in Canada. But your point is valid when discussing this from a U.S. point of view. But to contrast the two countries we can look at key phrases in both countries' constitutions. In the U.S.A. you have, "Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness." In Canada, the analogous phrase is: "Peace, Order and Good Government." Not quite the same. This can help explain some of the differences between the two countries. And FWIW, the latter phrasing is used by a number of Commonwealth countries. In Canada it is written into the constitution. And like I said, Canada's laws allow less freedom of speech than in the U.S.; which I stridently disagree with. But all said, and in spite of that, I do agree with you. :)

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    39. Re:And the torment of her family and loved ones? by c0lo · · Score: 1

      Now, you are equating a prosecution with a prosecution. Nothing more. When it comes to this shit, Galileo would probably say "Hang the fucker." I say that because almost NO ONE - even in our comparatively liberal society of the modern times - would say this guy is in the right.

      There's a difference between being rightfully defiant, and just being a dick.

      Are you thick? I'm making a parallel between two prosecution on grounds of "challenging the society morals". I can't see how one is good and the other bad.

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    40. Re:And the torment of her family and loved ones? by MacDork · · Score: 1

      There are some things simply beyond the pale in any decent society. Entertaining people through showing a grisly, cruel murder can do nothing but harm the family, friends, and love ones of the victim. It has absolutely no political, educational, moral effect, nor any deterrent to any crime.

      You're right. If my dad was brutally murdered on video, I would not want everyone in the world gawking at it for a cheap thrill. So has Canada asked youtube to take down all those grisly 9/11 videos yet? Oh, yeah, forgot... Hipocracy. "We must never forget!" Sick bastards watching people fall to their deaths, over and over again.

    41. Re:And the torment of her family and loved ones? by c0lo · · Score: 1

      People have always been and will always be afraid of death, and any overt step toward that bleak realization is going to be a social loser no matter what the social benefits.

      * groan *
      (would this be a reason the Egyptians still have cojones to fight for what they believe in - even against other Egyptians - while "the free and brave Americans" don't move a muscle at the news NSA knows their every shit? I wonder which of the two would be better for their respective society on medium/longer term?)

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    42. Re:And the torment of her family and loved ones? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Ok say I'm a criminologist or psychiatrist studying criminal behavior... I have no legitimate reason to view this? Back to the troll cave, you must be on your monthlies cause you are thinking with your emotions.

    43. Re:And the torment of her family and loved ones? by Wrath0fb0b · · Score: 1

      There are some things simply beyond the pale in any decent society. Entertaining people through showing a grisly, cruel murder can do nothing but harm the family, friends, and love ones of the victim. It has absolutely no political, educational, moral effect, nor any deterrent to any crime. It has no value whatsoever to shock and delight those deranged enough to view a heinous act.

      Indeed, and we should all comment to that effect such that our opprobrium is known.

      On the other hand, to allow a political system to make a binding decision about what speech is devoid of political value is to endorse to an effectively circular set of reasoning. Freedom of speech is a meta-political value -- its one that informs the means of making political decisions. To put the power to classify speech as politically worthy is to devolve meta-politics into an extension of politics itself.

      And since this is /., here is you obligatory strained tech analogy: allowing a government to suppress speech based on their judgment of its worth is like allowing the currently-running program on a computer to control the scheduler as well -- it's a layering violation. We have a set of meta-program rules (an OS) to mediate between programs (which come and go) just as we have a set of meta-political institutions (procedurally) that mediate between individual governments (which come and go).

    44. Re:And the torment of her family and loved ones? by Adammil2000 · · Score: 1

      You used the phrases "beyond the pale", "decent society", "it has no value", and "does corrupt public morals". These are the phrases that you'd expect to hear from morality/religious police, not something heard in a free society. The parents' feelings are unfortunate but irrelevant, otherwise you could use that line of reasoning to justify all censorship. You just don't like this kind of free speech, so you think it should be punished.

    45. Re:And the torment of her family and loved ones? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I happen to think that your position is one of intellectual cowardice.

      Does it bother you? Then don't go to the website. It's that simple. Don't want your children there? Then don't let them go there.

      A decent society first and foremost protects all speech, whether or not you find it acceptable or not, regardless of how heinous or despicable it is.

      I disagree with you that it has "absolutely no political, educational, moral effect, nor any deterrent to any crime." What disturbs you likely disturbs others, which arguably does have a deterrent effect. A legitimate argument can be made that what is posted on the website is reality, and the best way to address that unfortunate fact is to show that you have the integrity to discuss it, even if you disagree with it, rather than making someone hide it away. Here we are, after all, agreeing that this site is deplorable. As a small community, we've identified it as inappropriate and outside our norms.

      What you censor never goes away, it just appears out of your view. You can always accomplish that another way. When you censor, you are essentially saying that you're too weak to handle someone else's speech. It's better to point it out as bad, to face it, to meet it at its own game.

      I say that a society that's afraid of speech is lost.

    46. Re:And the torment of her family and loved ones? by bratwiz · · Score: 1

      How is this any different than the video showing the Taliban executing people in a soccer field?

    47. Re:And the torment of her family and loved ones? by dryeo · · Score: 1

      The Fathers of Confederation looked at the failure of the American Constitution in the 1860's, with millions of Americans dead, and decided to do something different. The Writers of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms didn't want child porn to be legal and put some limitations on our rights.
      Now we come closer to following our constitution then America where the government is so used to working around their Constitution that they've formed a habit of ignoring it.

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    48. Re:And the torment of her family and loved ones? by gl4ss · · Score: 1

      well sure but your rhetoric could ban all news reporting about awful issues, warzones etc.

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    49. Re:And the torment of her family and loved ones? by DerekLyons · · Score: 1

      except the price of freedom is such that I must tolerate all manner of distasteful assholes in this country.

      Ah, so you'll be calling for the repeal of child pornography laws?

    50. Re:And the torment of her family and loved ones? by Rosyna · · Score: 1

      This is a video of a real murder and dismemberment done in the most gruesome way possible. There's no artistic, political, or cultural value in this video, it's just horribly shocking.

      This is obviously wrong. It does have political and cultural value. After all, the video spawned this entire debate.

    51. Re:And the torment of her family and loved ones? by quantaman · · Score: 1

      This is a video of a real murder and dismemberment done in the most gruesome way possible. There's no artistic, political, or cultural value in this video, it's just horribly shocking.

      This is obviously wrong. It does have political and cultural value. After all, the video spawned this entire debate.

      I'm not sure having a debate about whether it should be banned or has any worth at all is a valid example of spawning political debate :)

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    52. Re:And the torment of her family and loved ones? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Current CP laws make CP harder to get, thus driving prices up.

      Anyone with economic sense will tell you, that when prices go up, production increase.

      I say we should legalize posession, legalize giving it away freely and lock the people up who sell it[1]. Why? To drive prices as far down as we can, to remove that reward for production. It won't halt production (nobody makes CP for the money alone, every producer is a sick fuck), but if we can make even one producer go from producing to consuming, it's already a huge success.

      Likewise, if we can get even one regular child molester to stay home and wank instead of molesting kids, it's a huge success.

      [1] By sell, I don't mean produce. Lock up those who earn money from CP, even if they had nothing to do with production. Then make what they sell feely available. As for those who produce it: Remove their balls. I hear that's quite effective.

    53. Re:And the torment of her family and loved ones? by LainTouko · · Score: 1

      There are some things simply beyond the pale in any decent society. Entertaining people through showing a grisly, cruel murder can do nothing but harm the family, friends, and love ones of the victim. It has absolutely no political, educational, moral effect, nor any deterrent to any crime. It has no value whatsoever to shock and delight those deranged enough to view a heinous act.

      And yet, it's not actually an act of violence. Arresting someone; saying "if you don't come with us, we'll use force on you" is.

      Merely observing that someone is disgusting and has no possible excuse for their behaviour is not an excuse for the use of force against them, even when that force is wrapped up in the notion of 'law', made to look civilised, generally agreed upon, governed by individuals who wear fancy clothes to increase their perceived status. Force, and therefore law, should be a tool of last resort. An argument for anything to be illegal must identify a problem with serious consequences if it is not solved, and explain why there is no other good way of solving it.

    54. Re:And the torment of her family and loved ones? by Raenex · · Score: 2

      Does anyone remember the "Faces of Death" series?

      I do, and I watched it out of morbid curiosity, and thought it would be entertaining just like I found violence entertaining in the movies. I came away feeling sickened and depressed, and had no desire to watch any more of it.

      Did I derive any value from watching that smut? I'd say that it is quite negligible, but there was in fact some value gained.

      There was for me. I was sickened and disgusted by the barbaric tourists bashing a monkey's head at a dinner table so that they could eat its brains. Death by the electric chair seemed cruel and barbaric. Daredevils risking their lives and horrendous injury for the entertainment of the mob lost all value for me.

    55. Re:And the torment of her family and loved ones? by tobe · · Score: 1

      I think you're exactly right here.. others may talk about a slippery road to restriction of free speech but I think societies are right to be more concerned about a slide into the kind of depravity that is typically portrayed as dystopian. I'm very comfortable with throwing the book at this guy and destroying the footage, just as comfortable as I would be if it were child pornography or any other non-consensual act.

      I think we all instinctively know what the essence of free speech is and it isn't this. I'm absolutely sure that if the Framers could have envisaged such a situation they would have specifically put it outside the bounds of protected forms of expression.

      And.. on a sidenote: You mentioned brutal executions in England. The very term 'cruel and unusual punshment' originates in the English Bill of Rights (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_Bill_of_Rights) passed in 1689. We've only hung people since then (although there was an unfortunate incident involving some Catholics in 1746).

    56. Re:And the torment of her family and loved ones? by AmiMoJo · · Score: 2

      Dignity is usually considered a human right. Having people watch someone's murder or rape online would probably be considered to have stripped away that dignity.

      Of course it is almost impossible to remove material from the internet, but would you argue that once an image is "out there" that person's dignity is gone and we should do nothing further to try and protect it? I don't think it's a binary thing like that.

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    57. Re:And the torment of her family and loved ones? by AmiMoJo · · Score: 1

      You don't think that knowing others are watching their loved one's murder for gratification harms the family? Do all a person's rights die the moment they do?

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    58. Re:And the torment of her family and loved ones? by AmiMoJo · · Score: 1

      It basically comes down to this. If you believe in absolutely unfettered free speech than this video is allowed.

      If you believe in any decency restrictions at all, then this video is probably out.

      What about the dignity and privacy of the person being murdered? Obviously they are dead now but such human rights usually continue after death, and of course their family is still around.

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    59. Re:And the torment of her family and loved ones? by guyniraxn · · Score: 1
      In addition to that, the site owner claims that the killer was identified by the users of the site and the police refused to follow up. http://www.cbc.ca/day6/blog/2012/06/01/exclusive-interview-with-mark-marek-from-best-gore-website/

      I post videos of actual events that take place around the world to help people understand what really is happening so they don't live in a fantasy, but fall into reality. This approach helped to prevent countless disasters and made our streets and neighborhoods safer. It also made it safer for people who do all they can to hurt me or the site. Take the 1 Lunatic 1 Ice Pick video which had you contact me - members of Best Gore identified the perpetrator 4 days before the discovery of the torso in Montreal and the foot in Ottawa. Had the police not ignored the reports made at the time, they would have likely caught the perpetrator red-handed, while still in the apartment. Due to a mishap outside of Best Gore's control, the report was dismissed as not credible and perpetrator not checked up on, allowing him to carry through with his deed of mailing the body parts off and disappearing without a trace, but it changes nothing on the fact that because the video was made public, Best Gore community was able to identify the perpetrator and report it, which if not dismissed by the police, would have likely taken the perp off the street. But as it goes - no good deed goes unpunished.

    60. Re:And the torment of her family and loved ones? by LoRdTAW · · Score: 1

      Get off your high horse. Arresting someone because it may hurt the feelings of a few people is nonsense.

    61. Re:And the torment of her family and loved ones? by Fr33z0r · · Score: 1

      I have no idea how showing the video of the murder is a disrespect if it is what happened and in no way altered.

      So if your mother was raped and the event was recorded, you wouldn't find people posting the video of it on "bestrapes.com" disrespectful?

      You might want to give your position a little more thought.

    62. Re:And the torment of her family and loved ones? by Quila · · Score: 1

      there are some things that a society has every damn right to ban ... showing a murder for fun.

      These are people who brought their kids to public executions for the entertainment value.

    63. Re:And the torment of her family and loved ones? by fulldecent · · Score: 1

      >> The "horror" is that the sick and twisted website operator thought the footage "entertaining" and tried to make a profit off it by posting it.

      This pretty much describes ANY website.

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    64. Re:And the torment of her family and loved ones? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      "Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness" are oriented toward the INDIVIDUAL. "Peace, Order, Good Government" are oriented toward a COLLECTIVE. The question becomes "Do you wish to be your own person or do you wish to be a cog in a machine?" Don't try to get cute by saying "When a person is shielded from market forces, (s)he is free from having to sledge and slave for food, clothing and shelter." Invariably those societies that provide the basics wind up penalizing those who have ambitions to have more than the basics. The real tragedy is when a society taxes and regulates people as if they will care for them (burden of socialism) yet turn around and say that "everyone must fend for themselves" (burden of capitalism). It's having the worst of both worlds where the burdens of both systems are for the poor and the benefits of both systems for the rich. However, I have digressed.

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    65. Re:And the torment of her family and loved ones? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      And your limited experience would be a poor excuse for our society to descend back into brutal depravity.

      GAAAAAAAAAAAAASSSSSSSSSSP! How DARE you use the "D" word (depravity). That word has theological overtones. How DARE you suggest that there exists a transcendent moral ethic. Next thing you know someone here will be quoting Calvin's Institutes of the Christian Religion.

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    66. Re:And the torment of her family and loved ones? by chihowa · · Score: 1

      You don't think that knowing others are watching their loved one's murder for gratification harms the family?

      It doesn't actually harm the family any more than your opinions on limiting free speech harms me. If it takes telling other people that an act happened for people to be "harmed" by it, then there really is no victim. You don't have a right to not be offended.

      Do all a person's rights die the moment they do?

      I'm pretty sure that they specifically do. Even the inalienable rights, such as life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, end when a person dies. An estate has limited, short-term rights. There are laws against the desecration of corpses, too, but the plaintiff in such cases is not the corpse. There's no logic to rights being held by the inanimate vacated vessel of a former person.

      I'm absolutely appalled at the idea of watching the grisly murder of another human being and I have no desire to ever associate with the sort of person who gets off on that sort of thing, but your arguments just sound like emotional hand-wringing. Being offended is not a valid starting point for good law.

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    67. Re:And the torment of her family and loved ones? by Kelbear · · Score: 1

      Ugh, well I'll admit that if nothing else, seeing that video of the soldier and the knife taught me that videogames have not desensitized me to violence.

    68. Re:And the torment of her family and loved ones? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Curiosity. Most people have never experienced human death first hand. Some of us are very curious about the subject and its not like we can just go experiment on our own (or even want to). But hey, some other asshole did it and its not like we're repeating his horrendous crime by watching the video. And please, don't bring the parents of the victim into this. What, are they searching the internet for the video of their child being killed? I seriously doubt it.

      The same arguments bstarrfield makes could easily be applied to adult pornography.

    69. Re:And the torment of her family and loved ones? by chihowa · · Score: 2

      Ah, the "it could always be worse" argument against making the world a better place. Sibling to the "first world problem" quip, where any desire to right wrongs is contested unless circumstances are as dire as they could possibly be. God forbid we actually learn from the lessons taught by other places and other times.

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    70. Re:And the torment of her family and loved ones? by Ardyvee · · Score: 1

      I wouldn't like it, that's for sure, and being uploaded to "bestrapes.com" isn't the place I would like to see it (it implies a disrespectful reason why people are going to watch it). But there is a difference between being disrespectful and not talking about things. So while I wouldn't like it, I'm nobody to stop them from watching the video. I can try to persuade them, change their mind, but I can't force them to do so. And that doesn't mean they don't respect me or my mother (in this case). It just means they have a very strong reason (to them, whatever it is) to watch it.

      And I certainly wouldn't want a law to be put in place either. I don't know if I effectively get my point across. And I realize I'm kind of putting aside emotional response.

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    71. Re:And the torment of her family and loved ones? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Good point!

    72. Re:And the torment of her family and loved ones? by AmiMoJo · · Score: 1

      If it takes telling other people that an act happened for people to be "harmed" by it, then there really is no victim.

      It's not telling people it happened, it is showing them someone's undignified death where their humanity was shredded.

      There are laws against the desecration of corpses, too, but the plaintiff in such cases is not the corpse.

      I don't know where you live but in the EU the government is obliged to uphold people's rights, which includes the police arresting and prosecuting people for desecrating corpses on the corpse's behalf. The right to dignity extends beyond death.

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    73. Re:And the torment of her family and loved ones? by WaffleMonster · · Score: 1

      Your argument holds true for a special effects fest movie or video.
      This was neither.
      It was video of the aftermath of an actual, honest to God someone died MURDER

      What about rotton.com?

    74. Re:And the torment of her family and loved ones? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      The gender of the murder victim doesn't matter for the argument. If the post would have been gender-neutral it would be a valid opinion. But the way it was posted, it's not. The implicit assumption that the murder victim was female completely disqualifies the commenter, because it makes it obvious that this commenter knows nothing about the case, didn't bother to read TFA, and makes assumptions based on common-sense sexism without ever checking if they hold true.

    75. Re:And the torment of her family and loved ones? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      So you think freedom of speech should be restricted to what can be shown to be "beneficial"?

    76. Re:And the torment of her family and loved ones? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Galileo was advocating an idea that could be proven or disproven with a little application of the scientific method. This guy's just broadcasting snuff. And as much as moral relativists will jump all over me for this, there are certain things that are either evil or not evil regardless of what society thinks of them. Murder without a pretty damn good justification (self-defense, for example) is pretty darn evil.

    77. Re:And the torment of her family and loved ones? by pnutjam · · Score: 1

      The last public execution in the US was in 1936.

    78. Re:And the torment of her family and loved ones? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I never look at this stuff, too disturbing. But your arguments appear to be no better than "cause I want to". You're as guilty of irrational emotional thinking as your opponents.

      In a free society, no one is obligated to defend their law-abiding choices to morals/thought police just to retain their rights to make those choices.

    79. Re:And the torment of her family and loved ones? by Motard · · Score: 1

      Yes, of course. Distributing a video of a murder and the results of one's stargazing are the same.

      And you ask if I am thick.

    80. Re:And the torment of her family and loved ones? by cavebison · · Score: 1

      And yet if you give governments the power to ban things because they are "depraved" suddenly everyone despised by the people in power are all depraved.

      That's a lovely bubble you're living in. Things have been banned because they were "depraved" or otherwise distasteful for... I don't know... FOREVER. Ask a gay person.

      We've still working on government taking that "men are created equal" part seriously. Not quite there yet. Eventually we'll get onto protection for whistle-blowers.. free speech my arse.

    81. Re:And the torment of her family and loved ones? by c0lo · · Score: 1

      Yes, of course. Distributing a video of a murder and the results of one's stargazing are the same.

      By the moral of that time, painting the torture and death by crucifixion or other means, as well as imagery of perpetual torture (they used to call it damnation) was actually considered of high moral value - they didn't have video at that time, but you could see examples of them mostly everywhere (not on a single site).
      At the same time, the proper interpretation of the results of stargazing was a punishable challenge to the same morals.

      Except of the difference of moral values (expected due to the drift in time) , what is conceptual difference between the two prosecutions in the name of "society morals"?

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    82. Re:And the torment of her family and loved ones? by Motard · · Score: 1

      what is conceptual difference between the two prosecutions in the name of "society morals"?

      One concerned a guy who looked at the sky, and the other concerned someone who was being killed. I don't know why you don't see a difference.

    83. Re:And the torment of her family and loved ones? by Zynder · · Score: 1

      I never once advocated for any type of bans or stifling of your free speech. I merely contend there is no use for that stuff other than sick entertainment. Nice try though.

    84. Re:And the torment of her family and loved ones? by elucido · · Score: 1

      Dignity is usually considered a human right. Having people watch someone's murder or rape online would probably be considered to have stripped away that dignity.

      Of course it is almost impossible to remove material from the internet, but would you argue that once an image is "out there" that person's dignity is gone and we should do nothing further to try and protect it? I don't think it's a binary thing like that.

      That is the argument. Once something is on the net it's out there forever. The concept of dignity has to adapt to technological progress. We can't act like there will be ways to delete stuff in the future when that wont be possible. And we cannot blame people for viewing it as if viewing anything is equal to the original crime.

  10. Re:Things like this... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Murder as free speech.
    America really has something funny in its water supply.

  11. Even in the USA, some "crime video" is contraband by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    If a crime-scene video WOULD fall afoul of US obscenity laws if it were fictional/staged, AND it is not presented in a way that gives it free speech protection, it might also be deemed illegal because it is obscene.

    Fortunately, the bar is quite low. This allows journalists to publish gruesome war-crimes photos or videos without fear of arrest, while outlawing similar-looking "staged" pictures and videos.

    Child pornography is also illegal in the United States partly (but not exclusively) under the theory that such images are "crime-scene photos." I say "not exclusively" because such images created abroad, created before current laws were passed, or created in situations where no crime other than snapping the shutter occurs (e.g. self-photography, legal sex between two people allowed to have sex with each other but one or both is under 18, etc.) is still generally illegal to produce, share, or possess in the United States.

  12. Re:Things like this... by Guspaz · · Score: 5, Informative

    Key point, though, this isn't in the US, and the laws in Canada don't work the same way. Canadians don't necessarily have the exact same values as Americans, and one of those values is that hate speech is criminal rather than protected. These laws (and related ones) are occasionally controversial, but not nearly to the extent they would be in the US.

  13. Re:Things like this... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    The website operator didn't commit the murder. Posting the video was the "free speech". Abhorent, but still free speech (in the US). As this was in Canada, totally different rules apply.

  14. Al Gore? by jfdavis668 · · Score: 1

    When I read the headline, the first thing I thought of was Al Gore.

    1. Re:Al Gore? by ackthpt · · Score: 1

      When I read the headline, the first thing I thought of was Al Gore.

      My first thoughts, but then I read TFA.

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    2. Re:Al Gore? by SnarfQuest · · Score: 0

      Maybe this guy was protesting about the carbon footprint of his victim, or the people he sent them to. That would bring it under AlGore's speeches, but not his deeds.

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    3. Re:Al Gore? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Strangle enough, I read TFA, and then I thought of Al Gore

    4. Re:Al Gore? by Rod+Beauvex · · Score: 1

      Glad I'm not the only one. :D

  15. What about this case was so complicated by Nutria · · Score: 1

    that it took more than a year to develop?

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    1. Re:What about this case was so complicated by SolemnLord · · Score: 1

      that it took more than a year to develop?

      A whole lot of things:
      1. As the summary mentioned, the various parts of Jun Li were mailed to political parties and schools, which means that at least some time would have to be taken ensuring everything "matched"
      2. At the same time, if I recall, there was another dismembered body (or just regular body) being found in the Montreal area, so the police had to determine whether or not that was tied to the other crime
      3. Magnotta fled the country and was eventually caught in Germany (which is an interesting story in and of itself).
      4. Pre-trial hearing 5. Magnotta's been under psychiatric care while the courts decide whether or not he's fit for trial

      That's some of the big reasons, off the top of my head.

    2. Re:What about this case was so complicated by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Magnotta is going in trial in the fall. Most likely the two Crown prosecution teams have been working together on their cases and the charge now reflects the state of evidence for the gore site prosecutor. Beyond that, a large amount of publicity in this case could have interfered with jury selection for the Magnotta case. I'm not a lawyer or privy to anything in this but those things spring to mind.

    3. Re:What about this case was so complicated by Nutria · · Score: 1

      The wording of the Montreal Gazette article strongly implied that it was the Marek case that took so long.

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    4. Re:What about this case was so complicated by dryeo · · Score: 1

      The radio (CBC) was just interviewing someone about that. Seems that the Marek had no fixed address and it took quite a while for the cops to catch up to him.

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    5. Re:What about this case was so complicated by Nutria · · Score: 1

      That doesn't sound too "complex", though. Or is the newspaper article yet another example of journalistic incompetence?

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    6. Re:What about this case was so complicated by dryeo · · Score: 1

      I may well have missed a bit of the interview.

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    7. Re:What about this case was so complicated by dryeo · · Score: 1

      Reheard the police statement. First they couldn't locate him due to no fixed address. Then when they located him, he left the country the next day. He recently returned and was detained by border personal in Vancouver, then they went through his computer and charged him.
      Lots of talk about how rare and weird a charge like this is with the general feeling it is due to the murder being so high profile.

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  16. Re:Canada by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Why does this useless person post replies to stories they aren't interested in?

  17. Singularly by Mikkeles · · Score: 1, Insightful

    The only people here with corrupt morals are the police and the politicians who passed this law.

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    1. Re:Singularly by broken_chaos · · Score: 0, Troll

      What makes you believe that exploiting the murder of an individual by posting a video of it is anything less than immoral?

    2. Re:Singularly by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      What makes you believe that exploiting the murder of an individual by posting a video of it is anything less than immoral?

      You are exploiting this murder when claiming moral high ground in this manner.

      The conservative party is exploiting this murder to look though on crime while in fact they only care because they were personally targeted by the killer. eg: The killer sent body part to the party's office.

      Go be a moralfag elsewhere, the very same law was abused last year again fiction that displayed 'morally corrupting' horror.

    3. Re:Singularly by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      And you.

    4. Re:Singularly by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Agreed. While I certainly cannot say the gore site's operator's actions are as evil as those of the law makers here, they do imply some level of corrupt morals.

    5. Re:Singularly by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Go back to 4chan, you are not wanted here.

    6. Re:Singularly by broken_chaos · · Score: 1

      So you don't actually have a reason why it's not immoral. Okay.

      Also there's a much larger problem with exploiting a murder for entertainment and profit than for any other reason. While other reasons may not be 'good', I'd say that entertainment and profit are the very bottom of that barrel.

    7. Re:Singularly by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I don't have to reason why it is not immoral. If it is your position, it is you that have to demonstrate 1) that it is immoral and 2) that your opinion matter.

      If you want to send someone to prison because you think your moral value are better then everyone else than you better have a compelling argument.

  18. Re:Things like this... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    What speech? Did he add a witty title or something. The video isn't his speech any more than me posting a torrent is my free speech. It is just copying some bits.

  19. This all sounds familiar by MrEricSir · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The idea that people shouldn't be entertained by violence is the same argument that's been used to ban video games, movies, etc. Think about ALL of the implications what you're saying here -- are you sure this is really the road you want to go down?

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    1. Re:This all sounds familiar by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Actually, it's not an issue of entertainment, but an issue of production. If you want to create a violent video game, you code it. If you want to create child pornography, you find individuals.

      They are not the same.

    2. Re:This all sounds familiar by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Sure, it's an argument that's been used.

      It does not, however address the fundamental difference between an honest-to-god snuff video and a video game in which some fictional characters bleed fictional blood in a fictional world, with absolutely no living organisms being harmed by any of it.

      If you can't see a difference between a real video of a real murder and CoD, perhaps you should think of the implications of what you're saying a little more.

    3. Re:This all sounds familiar by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

      It is not a snuff film if it was not created with the intent to earn money or at least entertain. If the intent of recording the film does not count towards the definition of a snuff film, then "Faces of Death" would be considered a snuff film since some of the scenes are actual authentic footage of people dying.

    4. Re:This all sounds familiar by Valdrax · · Score: 1

      I think there's a difference between created fiction and voyeurism of real human suffering.

      Yeah, I gotta put snuff in the same box as child porn. Repulsive when created by the pen and paper and worthy of social ostracism; utterly indefensible when involving real acts occurring to real people and worthy of prison time.

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    5. Re:This all sounds familiar by Motard · · Score: 0

      Yes, keep telling yourself that.

    6. Re:This all sounds familiar by idji · · Score: 1

      There is a difference between being entertained by acted violence, and being entertained by the murder of a human. Allowing things like child pornography and "real gore" would be creating and supplying a market, hence creating demand of "product", which leads to victimization of humans - and that is abhorrent. We ban the ivory trade to make no market for killing elephants and we ban child pornography to provide no incentive for victimizing children. You can rightly claim that there is no known correlation between video game violence and murdering people, but there IS a direct correlation between child pornography and child abuse (the first CANNOT exist without the other). The correlation is not necessary there between "real gore" and "murder", and " prostitution" and "human trafficking", but is highly likely there as the first can create the second.

    7. Re:This all sounds familiar by MikeBabcock · · Score: 1

      Being entertained by violence is not the same thing as disseminating *real* violence for entertainment, which in turn makes a market for actually hurting people.

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    8. Re:This all sounds familiar by Zynder · · Score: 3, Informative

      Even CP that is animated is banned just as harshly and you coded it. No one was harmed in that production but it doesn't matter to the ban happy people because it is "the principal" of it.

    9. Re:This all sounds familiar by shutdown+-p+now · · Score: 1

      but there IS a direct correlation between child pornography and child abuse (the first CANNOT exist without the other).

      Note that you yourself are not making the claim that the relationship also works in reverse - because it, well, doesn't. So you can remove CP, but child abuse will remain.

      And then of course there's the whole issue of consensual filmed sex identified as CP, and of rendered / drawn videos etc. More recently, in Russia, the local lawmakers have ruled that all hentai is CP - how about that?

    10. Re:This all sounds familiar by ADRA · · Score: 1

      Maybe if the video game dev's promised to kill a kitten in a poor country people -would- be just as outraged. Sorry, public opinion is against you. Its part of the sad double edged sword of group morality.

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    11. Re:This all sounds familiar by broken_chaos · · Score: 1

      Being able to draw a line between being entertained by real death and being entertained by fake death doesn't really require any difficult consideration. After all, the idea that people shouldn't be entertained by violence is also one of the contributing factors to things like, say, animal cruelty laws -- there pretty much has to be a line drawn somewhere, and drawing it between "real violence" and "not real violence" makes as much sense, if not more, to me than drawing it between "watching real violence" and "committing real violence".

    12. Re:This all sounds familiar by Seumas · · Score: 1

      I'm sorry, but crime evidence is hardly the same thing as "snuff".

      Snuff films are as abhorrent as child porn for exactly the same reason. Crime evidence (video, photos, etc), while very disturbing and not something most people would want to view, are different. Crime evidence of horrible crimes are gross, depressing, and horrifying -- but they are not created to meet the demand of a hungry audience consuming it. Snuff and child porn are directly created to satisfy a consumer demand (one feeds the other, presumably).

    13. Re:This all sounds familiar by MacDork · · Score: 1

      Canada will send you to prison for purchasing a sex doll. No need to harm children. Just crimethink.

    14. Re:This all sounds familiar by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      What your saying doesn't make any sense. Child porn, gore, nor violent video games cause rape, murder, or violence. There is no reliable evidence of this despite numerous studies. The studies all have major flaws.

      For instance with child porn if you only are taking people charged with a crime against children and have child porn then ultimately your making a connection which does not actually exist. It would be the same as if you took people charged with a crime against children and are a doctor and then concluded there was a connection between doctors and child porn. Obviously there isn't. But that's what the studies have done. They took people who were locked up because the majority of people who are not locked up for crimes against children would never admit to child porn possession. Doing so would put them at risk.

      There are studies which would suggest rapes go down on the other hand when pornography is legalized and it goes up when pornography is criminalized. It is more than likely this same correlation is true for child pornography. There is nothing sufficiently different about pedophiles sexually than the rest of the population. There will be those who rape and there will be those who don't. Just because some do both doesn't mean that the majority of people (or even a tiny minority) who view child pornography are going to commit rape no matter how much the media imply all/most pedophiles are murders or rapists.

      The same thing is true of people who play violent video games. There will be those who are violent and play video games but that doesn't mean there is a correlation between murder and playing video games just because there people who have done both.

      And again the same thing with gore- while I might find it disturbing there is nothing that suggests people who like this material are more likely to commit murder than the general population. Almost all murders are committed for reasons other than a sexual desire over gore.

      Most people who like this stuff (in 'real life' even) can be satisfied by violent video games, pornography, and in the case of gore by imagery. Suggesting that such imagery/games/etc increase the overall harm is non-sense. Even if it did for a tiny minority of people it reduces the likelihood for far greater numbers to keep it legal.

      We shouldn't let our dislike for any of these things come between what is best for society and those (disturbed if you like) individuals who like any of these things.

      We are biased against these things without good reason. A sick pedophile seeing real or fake child pornography doesn't actually harm the victim (if it is real) in the image. The thing that harmed the child (if said child really was harmed) would have been the thought/idea/etc that there image (societal problem here) is arousing people or that it might be seen by people and that they are a bad person for it.

      Really that is a problem only because society is screwed up. Stop making sex/rape/the body into something to be ashamed of and the issue of harm goes away. Your better off outlawing religion than any of these things.

    15. Re:This all sounds familiar by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      It's not just "footage of people dying" - in accidents, or executions.

      It is a MURDER of another human being, recorded for the purposes of distribution (and, in the case of the bestgore website owner, entertainment.)

      Again: if you cannot see the difference, perhaps you should think of the implications of what you're saying a little more.

      Frankly, I think the Faces of Death series is pretty fucking repugnant, too -- but those were not created *solely to document the deaths of the participant for other people's entertainment.* The *real* deaths are accidental deaths caught on camera, or videotapes of executions. They're not random murders of random civilians.

    16. Re:This all sounds familiar by SethJohnson · · Score: 2

      Coincidentally Luka Magnotta had previously been accused of killing kittens on video and posting it to this type of site, if not the same site.

      Not responding to the parent post, but I think there is a valid argument that the operator of the site hosting Luka's videos is guilty of collaborating with the killer. He didn't plan the murder, but he is acting as an instrument of Magnotta by delivering the infamy that was Magnotta's goal.

      The mature and humane response would have been to say, "Hey Luka. You killed a guy to become infamous. I'm not going to assist you in this goal by publishing this video of the crime you committed to become infamous. I'm going to hand it over to the cops." Instead, this website operator responded by helping Luka to achieve infamy.

    17. Re:This all sounds familiar by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      there IS a direct correlation between child pornography and child abuse

      You're correct: according to studies child porn reduces child abuce. http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/28803/title/Porn--Good-for-us-/ It follows that at least fictional child porn (eg. comics) would be good for society.

      Non-fictional child porn is a more vexing question. Clearly it's bad to create incentives to produce child porn via child abuse. As another commenter pointed out, current laws in the US criminalize many situations where no one was harmed (a minor sending a nude picture of self to another minor). Submitting photographic evidence of sexual child abuse to police will also get you convicted of possession of said evidence. It's likely that current laws in US and many other countries could be adjusted to minimize harmful effects like those two without creating an incentive for abusive child porn production.

      The correlation is not necessary there between "real gore" and "murder", and " prostitution" and "human trafficking", but is highly likely there as the first can create the second.

      Umm, no, that's highly unlikely. According to the studies referenced in the article linked above and numerous others (by eg. Anna Kontula, a Finnish researcher), human trafficking is part of only a tiny portion of prostitution. Virtually all prostitution is based on own choice, so the link between prostitution and human trafficking is minimal, just like between kitchen knives and murders executed with kitchen knives.

      However, feminists (people trying to tilt the balance of society to the benefit of certain females, typically themselves) have a strong incentive for propagating the myth of a strong link: the female sexual power, which is considerably higher than that of males, is highly dependent on the general availability of female-provided sex. The harder (more resource-consuming) it is for a male to find sex, the more concessions he will give to a female in a relationship where sex is on the table. Females have an incentive to hinder the life of prostitutes, and propagating a myth of ill social effects of the profession is one way.

    18. Re:This all sounds familiar by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      While I get what you're trying to say, you're not saying it well:

      Yeah, I gotta put snuff in the same box as child porn. Repulsive when created by the pen and paper and worthy of social ostracism;

      Mainstream literature and cinema is packed with "snuff" -- humans being tortured and raped and murdered. People pay a lot of money to read and see it, and respected reviewers often congratulate and praise writers and filmmakers for their skill at presenting these things in the context of fiction.

      Snuff is usually taken to mean displaying the actual harming and killing of living creatures for reasons of entertainment. Snuff that is only depicted on paper is not really snuff, is it?

    19. Re:This all sounds familiar by DarthVain · · Score: 1

      Entertainment is make believe. Actors, Movies, programming, avatars, etc... Fiction.

      Here a real person was brutally murdered, butchered like an animal, the process video taped.

      Two very different things.

      Also, call it what you want, but everything we use or watch from video games, tv, movies, etc do go through a censor, and are edited for viewing so as to not be too offensive.

    20. Re:This all sounds familiar by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Why even bother asking? It's clear they aren't thinking, at all. They think if it's not on the internet, then it must not be real. If we keep people from knowing murder happens, maybe they'll be no more murder. Yeah, it's best to just close our eyes and ears, and hope it goes away. Sounds like a 12th grader to me.

    21. Re:This all sounds familiar by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      "Snuff" does not exist...

      There are movies of so-called snuff, but they are movies, with actors, not the real thing. Like the "rape" movies, you know with pornstar XYZ and such, they have nothing real in them.

      For years the ignorant media have reported that sites with snuff exist, but it's simply a lie. The only approching thing is movie made by killers (a rare thing) and those cannot be confused with people making such things professionally.

  20. Re:Political Parties' Names by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1
  21. Not appropriate?!? by ackthpt · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I once lived near Canada and admired the view that anything related to an upcoming trial be kept out of the news. Where it's treated like entertainment or tantalizing marketing in the United States, it's good to see Canada believes the public should not be forming opinions based upon partial evidence or hearsay.

    Looks to my untrained eye like the site operator was violating this ban, beyond simply poor taste.

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    1. Re:Not appropriate?!? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I once lived near Canada and admired the view that anything related to an upcoming trial be kept out of the news. Where it's treated like entertainment or tantalizing marketing in the United States, it's good to see Canada believes the public should not be forming opinions based upon partial evidence or hearsay.

      Looks to my untrained eye like the site operator was violating this ban, beyond simply poor taste.

      Not to readers: once the jury is sequestered most publication bans are lifted.

      So before the trial publication is restricted to prevent contaminating the jury pool, and during the trial there are restrictions to prevent tainting the jury (they're allowed to go home). It's only during deliberations that most/all of the evidence can be broadcast and published.

      There are some things that are not allowed even after: if the victim/s are 'children' (under 18), then their names and the names of the accused, cannot be published to protect the identities of the victims (so the even won't follow them around their entire lives).

    2. Re:Not appropriate?!? by quantaman · · Score: 4, Informative

      I don't think the publication ban is relevant here. In practice publication bans only affect the media and don't bother blogs that much, plus the video detailed Magnotta even being identified as the killer.

      The site was a really twisted gore website that Magnotta frequented (I recall hearing that he'd freaked out even website members and they'd contacted the police on previous occasions). After Magnotta killed Lin he sent the video to the website of him doing really bad things to the body (I don't think Lin was killed on camera). The operator posted the video and then he (or other site members) contacted the police about the video.

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    3. Re:Not appropriate?!? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Technically Lin didn't consent to being a model for his website. They could get him for that.

  22. Re:Things like this... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    In the land of the free even donating money is considered "free speech", go figure.

  23. this is a step up from video games by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    this is violence at a new level and should not be acceptable behavior. People can be traumatized from such a groosem event. Children among others may fear for their live may find carrying a gun might make them feel safter.

    1. Re:this is a step up from video games by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      this is violence at a new level and should not be acceptable behavior. People can be traumatized from such a groosem event. Children among others may fear for their live may find carrying a gun might make them feel safter.

      If you're talking about the violence your post perpetrates upon the English language, then I agree.

  24. Video by death_denied · · Score: 0, Informative
    1. Re:Video by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Look at the hypocrite that down moded this. -1 Dislike? The parent is informative

      If you don't like something don't look. Don't take it away from others.

  25. Re:Things like this... by studog-slashdot · · Score: 2

    Actually, hate speech is now protected. The exemption was repealed. http://news.nationalpost.com/2013/06/27/hate-speech-no-longer-part-of-canadas-human-rights-act/

  26. No problem when the BBC or CBC show such content by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Interesting

    One rule for State sanctioned 'journalists', another for everyone else. Kids at school can be FORCED to watch films showing Nazi atrocities, because it is deemed helpful to the current nation of Israel, but the same schools would face prosecution if they attempted to show film footage of atrocities carried out daily by Israel against all they label as 'sub-Human' in places like Gaza.

    Who is to judge when evidence from true crime scenes crosses the line? You will notice there is never a universal ban based on assessment of content. No, the bans are political based on the background of the 'victim' and the background of the 'aggressor'. Gore is fine if it encourages the viewer to support racist violence by Israel, or to cheer the wars waged by the UK and USA in Libya, Syria or Iraq.

    Journalists working for Murdoch's rags in the USA and UK are the first to press for punishment and jail for any ordinary citizen in possession of the 'wrong' kinds of true crime videos. For instance, the UK and USA provided their terrorists currently destroying Syria with chemical weapons and the training to use them. But these terrorists have a nasty habit of shooting everything they do on cell phones, immediately providing proof of the true nature of the conflick in Syria. It is rather annoying for the warmonger Obama to have his plans thwarted when he promised to destroy the Syrian government (including all civil servants and their families) if the regime appeared to use chemical weapons in its defence (as the USA would do- why else do you think Obama has the biggest collection of chemical weapons on the planet?)

    The USA, UK, Canada and Australia would love the sheeple to finally accept the concept of officially licensed 'journalists' so that the concept of citizen journalists could be exterminated once and for all. Unfortunately for the elites, English speaking nations have no tradition of state-sanctioned journalism (that the sheeple are supposed to be aware of anyway). The method in the English -speaking nations is to allow media giants to emerge that are owned/run by people belonging to the elite. Before the days of the Internet, this scheme worked brilliantly. The price of competing with the media giants was far too high, so citizen journalists could make only the smallest splash.

    The (ex?-)nazi, George Soros, is at the forefront to outlaw all influential Internet opinions not directly under his or mainstream control. He directly funds attacks on all those who dare to oppose propaganda operations by the mainstream media, or his pseudo-alternative mock-left-wing sites. Soros funded political support for legislation in the UK that would force ALL 'journalistic' activity (save for websites that ONLY contain content from a single named individual- comments included) to be required to join an incredibly expensive 'insurance' scheme to ensure funds for libel actions.

    George Soros is able to smirk and say "I haven't banned citizen journalism in the UK- I've just forced all journalists to be responsible- and if you can't afford to be responsible, that isn't my problem". In the UK, truth is NOT a defence against libel actions. UK courts, with the full backing of Soros, found a twitter that stated "why is McAlpine trending :)" to be libellous. The named politician was a famous supporter of convicted serial child rapist Graham Ovenden, and collected images made of the rape victims by the painter. But the truth is no defence in a UK libel court. McAlpine claimed his reputation had been damaged, and that was certainly true. Ovenden's intimate friendship with McAlpine and other senior members of the British establishment ensured that Ovenden's lifetime commitment to the worst forms of child abuse failed to gain any jail time, even when the court found him guilty of such sickening crimes.

    Jimmy Savile's (one of the world's worst child abusers) friends, including the Prince of Wales (yes, that freak who would be King should the Queen die or abdicate, which is why she is determined to outlive Char

  27. Re:Things like this... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Making political videos and publications costs money you know.

  28. How can free speech protect murder? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    It's very strange that as an outsider looking in the US commentators here seem to think that the damage caused by showing snuff is ok, yet the damage caused by two teenagers sexting is not.

    As a nation you Americans are very strange.

    1. Re:How can free speech protect murder? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      My brain hemispheres broke trying to parse your sentence. Thanks, asshole.

    2. Re:How can free speech protect murder? by Motard · · Score: 1

      Huh?

      Oh, wait... Now I I think I'm feeling you, Mr. AC Talibani.

    3. Re:How can free speech protect murder? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Segmentation fault, core dumped.

  29. Not free speech by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    The idea that posting grotesque, destructive and criminal behavior as entertainment should be protected as "free speech" is ridiculous. Notably, the "free speech" provision in the IS Constitution were meant to protect political discourse, and that's all. The unintended side effect of permitting essentially everything else is simple a result of sloppy execution, and the fact that "political" content is almost impossible to define.

    You can argue as you wish about that should or should not be censored, but the free speech argument is pretty spurious with respect to the INTENT of the provisions and has significance only in purely legalistic terms.

  30. Re:Things like this... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    But it's still a crime to disseminate hate. It just goes to court vs human rights tribunal.

  31. Re:Things like this... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Hate speech is still illegal in Canada. The portion pertaining to hate speech in the human rights act was repealed, but there are still laws against hate speech in the criminal code which the conservative government has yet to get to.

  32. Showing the video is a crime because it is theft by Comrade+Ogilvy · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Here is a case where property rights gives us a reasonable answer. The victim never gave consent to be filmed during his murder, the film was made under duress. Those choosing to propagate the film can be presumed to recognize that. Yet they chose to attempt to profit by selling manifestly stolen property. Throw them in jail.

  33. Would this be covered under obscenity laws? by sirwired · · Score: 3, Interesting

    If this were to occur in the US, would a prosecution under obscenity laws be legal?

    The bar is high, but compared with other things subject to the law, (i.e. the "Miller" test applied to pornography) this would seem to cross it.

    1. Re:Would this be covered under obscenity laws? by rahvin112 · · Score: 1

      They could try, I wouldn't lay high odds on them succeeding, I believe under US court rulings obscenity is generally sex related and doesn't apply to images or video that doesn't depict sexual acts. I haven't and won't watch the video but unless he did something sexual with the body I don't think you've got good odds of an obscenity charge. Necrophilia has been prosecuted as obscenity, and I don't doubt it would be easy to convince a jury that it qualifies as obscenity to a jury.

      They have better odds with the civil suit by the family. In fact there are several ways to attack stuff like this (such as copyright, which wouldn't work in this case) that doesn't even need to rely on vague and hard to prosecute things like obscenity.

    2. Re:Would this be covered under obscenity laws? by compro01 · · Score: 1

      Probably not. Current case law on obscenity (as mentioned in Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Association) in the USA holds that "speech about violence is not obscene".

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  34. The law as it as written by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Just for reference purposes here is the letter of the law: http://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/c-46/page-75.html#docCont

    Maybe it's because this law is very vague and open to interpretation that it hasn't been used much.

    Posting gore and violence and criminal acts in print or online for the purpose of added traffic is IMnsHO immoral. IMnsHO publishing a (theoretically) a gory snuff film with dismemberment and cannibalism justifies a charge.

    The prosecution will have prove to a judge that a: the publisher did not post this stuff for the public good, and/or b: he didn't pull it down after the public good was realized.

    IANAL .. but I am a canuck (usually right winged though, except for today).

  35. Thanks a lot Canada. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    As soon as the video was uploaded they (bestgore users) notified the police that they thought it was magnota.
    Police in Canada didn't do shit and resulted in a manhunt.
    Now they are blaming this guy for some BS.

    Fuck you Canada.
    Fuck you.

  36. This is very different from a Horror Film by sirwired · · Score: 1

    We know, when watching a horror film, that real people did not die to make the movie. Showing the death of a real person as "entertainment" is a different matter entirely.

    Does it cross the line? I don't know. It would make an interesting test case; if it was porn instead, it would seem to be over the line established in the Miller test.

  37. Re:Things like this... by GumphMaster · · Score: 5, Insightful

    what is wrong with you? this would be a clear violation of the site owner's rights of freedom of speech in the US. the site owner didnt commit any crimes, he simply uploaded a video of it to his own site, which is protected under free speech.

    So the United States has no laws prohibiting the posting of child porn or bestiality images? After all, the web site operator didn't rape the child, bugger the sheep, etc. he or she is simply exercising "free speech." Nonetheless, he or she is still accountable to the law for disseminating the child porn because it encourages the producers. Posting a murder video might be notionally legal in the US under purported "freedom of speech" but that does not remove the possibility that the law would take interest.

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  38. Re:Things like this... by Xicor · · Score: 1

    yea but the guy i was replying to was talking about the NSA... which is an american organization. hes implying that the NSA is doing the right thing in keeping tabs on US citizens as long as ppl like the guy in the article are removed from society.

  39. Re:Things like this... by Xicor · · Score: 1

    i dont really like getting into political arguments, however... bestiality porn is NOT against the law in the US. child porn IS because hosting the site creates a larger demand for child porn, which hurts more children. while i do agree that HOSTING child porn should be covered under the free speech laws, i can also see why that would be a bad idea. that being said, there have been some recent political discussions/lawmaking that i dont agree with. (like the issue of lolicon anime porn). in this case, there are no children harmed, so i think it is ridiculous to go after ppl hosting or creating these as child pornographers. the problem here is that our laws are based on sociopolitical morals and the morals of the bible(the latter should be tossed out because of separation of church and state). morals in general have no place in laws. laws should be specifically designed to keep social order and keep ppl from being harmed. victimless crimes should not be crimes at all. in the case of real child porn, there is harm, however in the case of anime or even prostitution, there are no victims, therefore it shouldnt be punishable by law.

  40. Re:Things like this... by bonehead · · Score: 2

    What happens when a nutbag joins the NSA?

    Um, business as usual?

  41. Re:Things like this... by Motard · · Score: 1

    Beastiality actually is against the law in most U.S. states. It's just that it's never really been perceived as a problem that would need to be dealt with at the federal level.

    And, you can't separate morals and 'social order'.

  42. bestiality CAN be deemed obscene in the USA by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    bestiality porn is NOT against the law in the US

    It is if it crosses the line into obscenity. Not all bestiality crosses that line but some does and the fact that it's bestiality usually edges it closer to the line than adult-people-porn.

  43. Not so fast by davidwr · · Score: 5, Interesting

    there IS a direct correlation between child pornography and child abuse (the first CANNOT exist without the other)

    Generally true but not always.

    The newly-married under-18 teenagers filming their honeymoon "in detail" are creating child pornography if they do it in America.

    Ditto the 13 year old guy playing with himself in front of a mirror with a camera, purely for his own amusement.

    Granted, these examples should never justify "making child porn legal" but they do justify creating the "it was my own body, I have a right to record it" absolute defense and an "it was my boy/girlfriend and he/she said yes" mitigation-defense for people close in age that would turn the charge into a non-sex-crime misdemeanor.

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    1. Re:Not so fast by Motard · · Score: 1

      So how does this instruct us on viewing/filming a murder? Because I think that's what we're talking about here.

    2. Re:Not so fast by Seumas · · Score: 1

      I guess maybe I can almost see the point he is trying to make. Maybe.

      Ultimately, free speech should be free. HOrrible things should be allowed to be created for the sake of exercising that free speech. NObody has to love it or like it or even pay it any attention. As a society, we generally seem to draw the line at the point where the creation of the content itself involves harming people and that feeds a demand to see that harm.

      In other words, snuff films (actual snuff films) and child porn are fucking hideous because they feed a demand to see death and child molestation by actually killing or molesting people.

      However, those shitty SAW films are acceptable, because as hideous and stupid as they are, they don't involve any actual harm to any actual people.

      I would place crime evidence under this same categorization. Those sites that archive photos of murders and terrible accidents using what I believe are mostly crime scene stuff (and therefore, probably publicly available stuff on file at courthouses or wherever) are showing actual harm and actual murder and actual crime, but they do not exist as part of some supply/demand that the snuff film/child porn production stuff does. Maybe that is starting to draw a fine line, but if it is on file to the public, then . . . so be it.

      This is also where a lot of people who support unrestricted free speech but abhor child molestation become conflicted. One is bent toward the spirit of free speech and free society. As long as something does not directly impact an unwilling human being, then its their business. Even if it's repulsive or "against their morals" (think gay porn or something, I guess?). But what about depictions of these things? Are books that involve underage sexuality something that should be illegal, because of the subject of the material even though it is all fictional and doesn't involve any actual people? How about anime and drawings? How about the SAW films (which I would see as the violence/murder/snuff equivalent to real violence/murder/snuff equivalent to the book Lolita being compared or judged under the actual crime of child molestation).

      It really puts the idea that you can say whatever you want and I will defend your right to do so even if I find it abhorrent. Is the line where it discusses or presents something hideous, but not real? Is just the concept alone something we decide is forbidden? Or do we decide that writing about serial killers is not the same thing as actual serial killers being serial killers?

      Even worse is when we start to apply the whole "obscenity is a community standard" bullshit that the church and politicians pushed through in America decades ago and has resulted in idiotic bullshit like the FCC and the planet losing its shit over a nipple-slip.

    3. Re:Not so fast by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      People who film(eh, webcams...) their own suicides don't go to jail?

    4. Re:Not so fast by q.kontinuum · · Score: 1

      Maybe, then it is time to redefine child abuse and child porn? There are not only children and adults. A human being old enough to develop a severe interest in sex (lets say, above 12 according to your example of the 13 year old) still needs to be protected and is definitely not an adult. But probably it's also not a child any more, but a youth. We need an additional category if we want to have at least remotely reasonable laws for this topic. For youths, I'd suggest to ban any commercialisation and distribution of pictures, but not punished if the distributor is the one shown in the material. I'd also propose to ban all sexual interactions, be it consensual non.consensual, between adults and children, and to have some limitations for such interactions between adults and youths (e.g. no commercialisation, zero tolerance in case of dependents [school, education, job], taking the actual age into account - 19y old and 17y old shouldn't be a problem, 13y and 19y should IMO)

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    5. Re:Not so fast by q.kontinuum · · Score: 1

      Free distribution of pictures of a crime can harm as well. Imagine an abused child, living in the knowledge that for all he knows, its teacher, its trainer, maybe when it grows up its potential employer or bank account manager, still wanks of fin the evening to the pictures of its own suffering. I think it makes it quite hard to let the psychological wounds heal. Question is: Is there anything positive that could be achieved by allowing this material to be freely distributed? Like, does it boost moral, can anyone learn something valuable from it, does it help open debate? I think not. So it makes people suffering without bringing any advantage to society. (For fictional material it is a completely different matter, of course.) There is only one reason I could think of to not follow up on such things, but I think it is a convincing one: To follow up on all cases of distribution of such crap, we would need complete surveillance for everyone, and that is too much a price to pay.

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    6. Re:Not so fast by davidwr · · Score: 1

      Maybe, then it is time to redefine child abuse and child porn?

      Some states in the USA are already doing this.

      Most states have "Romeo and Juliet" laws and most are extending this to "child porn" so a person who offers a photo of himself to his close-in-age girlfriend or who asks her for a photo of herself doesn't wind up with both of them spending years in prison with sex-offense felony records. Some states are also looking at "graduated penalties" based on ages and age differences even if the individuals are charged as adults. Others require charges to be made in juvenile court if the acts were consensual and the defendant is under 18.

      Personally, I would love to see the laws changed so arguably-consensual sex involving people who are not in a "power relationship" other than the one inherent in an age difference face consequences that are limited based on the age and age difference of the people involved:

      • If the younger party is under 18 and the older party is only a few years older (where "a few" is, say, 3 for a preteen or younger victim and ramping up to 6 if the younger party is 17) or if the older person is too young to be tried in juvenile court, the only remedies would be 1) if any parent complained, a court order for them to keep apart except as needed for school, and to be supervised when together at school, and 2) if either the police or any parent insisted, court-ordered counseling for both parties.
      • If the parties were more than a few years apart but less than about twice that much apart (i.e. 3 to 6 years age difference if the younger person was a preteen or younger, ramping up to 6 to 12 years if the younger person was 17) and the older person is old enough to be tried in juvenile court, the older person could be charged with a misdemeanor, be ordered into a psych evaluation and if deemed dangerous to others besides the existing "victim," possible non-public/sealed-record sex-offender registration or special probation/parole/supervision requirements for no more than a few years. The younger person would be offered counseling as would his or her parents. If the older person was a minor or living at home, his parents would be offered counseling as well. If the crime occurred in a state where misdemeanors committed by young adults or by minors convicted in adult court were routinely pardoned or the record sealed after a period of time of good behavior, the person would be treated the same as other young misdemeanor offenders when he asked for a pardon or asked for his record to be sealed. In other words, if you are 15 messing around with a 12 year old or are 23 messing around with a 17 year old, expect to spend a few months in juvenile detention or jail for it and if you are deemed to be a danger to others, expect to have to register with the police for the next few years, but you will not be on any public sex-offender registry.
      • If the parties were between twice and three times "a few years" (6 to 9 year age difference with a preteen or younger victim, ramping up to a 12 to 18 year age difference with a 17 year old victim) OR if the older person was still a minor and old enough to be tried in juvenile court, then the maximum penalty would be a low-level felony with only at most few years on a private (or, if he was 18 or older when the crime was committed, public) sex offender registry. If the crime occurred in a state where low-level felonies committed by young adults or by minors convicted in adult court were routinely pardoned or the record sealed after a period of time of good behavior, the person would be treated the same as other young low-level felons when he asked for a pardon or asked for his record to be sealed. In other words, if you are 18 messing around with a 12 year old or 29 messing around with a 17 year old, expect a felony sex offender conviction but expect to be out of prison in 2-3 years and expect to be off the sex offender registry a few years after that.
      • For all other adults who molest children
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  44. Re:Things like this... by Motard · · Score: 2

    The freedom of speech right in the US is not an unlimited right. You'll have to read through 200 years of jurisprudence to find the real limitations.

  45. Re:Things like this... by znanue · · Score: 1

    What speech? Did he add a witty title or something. The video isn't his speech any more than me posting a torrent is my free speech. It is just copying some bits.

    The counter to this argument is that you could be arrested for Seditious Gesturing while actually giving Seditious Speech (the former being considered illegal for not being 'speech' and the latter being considered legal). It should be hard to arrest someone for doing something expressive. It should be very hard.

    Either way, this is really more freedom of the press (even though it wasn't pressed, are real newspapers still pressed?). And this definitely qualifies as press. The typical news source might have given images associated with victims or alleged perp, images of the crime scene (albeit more tasteful?), etc. etc. and why does what they do qualify as freedom of the press but not this site? For instance, it could be argued that publishing a video of a murder might aid law enforcement across the country by helping to educate people whose job it is to understand the nature of crime.

    This is also a startlingly clear example of why strict constructionism is a stupid idea. Its quite clear Adams & Madison intended for "freedom of the press' to mean much more than the act of pressing ink into paper.

  46. Re:Things like this... by znanue · · Score: 5, Informative

    In the case Ashcroft v. Free Speech Coalition the supreme court struck down a provision in a law as unconstitutional that stated that simulated child pornography was illegal. In other words, CGI child porn is definitely considered free speech.

  47. Find the users by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    and send them to institutions. ones where they cannot get out. no good will come from such people. ever.

  48. Vid Doesn't Show a Murder by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    The vid, at least what was uploaded to BestGore, doesn't show a murder, only a gruesome dismemberment. The first part with the victim alive and masked is fake.

    "For a period of 16 hours after killing the girl, Sim dismembers the body with the chopping knife, breaking the knife in the process. He leaves the room to buy one more knife..."
    http://www.koreabang.com/2013/stories/teenage-sociopath-dismembers-girl-reveals-details-online.html

    "According to Van Allen, even Paul Bernardo — one of Canada’s most depraved killers — found it difficult to dismember one of his victims, Leslie Mahaffy, whose body was sliced up and encased in cement. Van Allen — who assisted with the Bernardo investigation and attended his trial — said the killer testified in court that dismembering Mahaffy was the “second-most disgusting thing he’d done in his life.” (Bernardo never revealed what the most disgusting thing was, Van Allen said, and nobody asked him.)"

    Not to say Magnotta didn't have a part in it all, just that it's not likely he could have done the job alone, what with dragging a body from bed to bath, bleeding out, washing parts in a tub with a small drain, putting arm in freezer, dragging back again, etc., while recording, editing, uploading. There was an assistant, willing or unwilling or he was somebody else's assistant.

    Why were members of a highly homophobic church monitoring BestGore anyway? Who told them the time of the premiere, so they could make the announcement to the world.

  49. Re:Showing the video is a crime because it is thef by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

    This might sound crass, posting anon.

    I watched the phone-line guy video where he was beheaded by terrorists during the Iraq war. I didn't enjoy what I saw, but doing so seemed important to help understand the pit of depravity that humans can succumb to.

    As a young teenager (far to young, but I had free reign at the video rental place via a signed paper saying I could rent all but the porno - which I found in my dads sock drawer...), I watched the Faces of Death series of videos. The money brain scene is fixed in my mind, as is the execution by firing squad. One can learn a lot about being decent and civil from scenes of gross violence.

    I believe that grotesque images of violence and even death should be seen, in order to help us understand how precious life is. It is easy to take a life, and to leave the path of despair it causes.

    What about war footage, showing soldiers killed and maimed on the battlefield (WW2, Korea). What of the numerous videos of US helicopters fire bombing villages during Vietnam? The death isn't obvious in the fireballs. Seeing death up front is much more powerful. The images of Hiroshima children are chilling, but very important:
    https://www.google.com/search?q=hiroshima+child&client=firefox-a&hs=jay&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&channel=np&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=5DvnUfvlIsSbqwHB8YDICg&ved=0CC0QsAQ&biw=1920&bih=968

    Savage acts require savage justice. But making savage acts available for viewing, not so much in my opinion. Reality, as horrific as is can be, is just reality. Choose not to watch if you wish, but understand, that for some, it is a learning experience about evil.

    My eyes and person have witnessed events worse than death from the pain and torture of a terrible disease. Death would have been, and eventually was, welcomed. It should have come sooner, and would have, if not for the modern medical system and it's "miracles".

  50. Submitter doesn't know his own rights by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    You should note that Canada has less free speech than in America (we have 'hate crime laws'),

    From the Charter of Rights and Freedoms:

    2. Everyone has the following fundamental freedoms:
    (a) freedom of conscience and religion;
    (b) freedom of thought, belief, opinion and expression, including freedom of the press and other media of communication;
    (c) freedom of peaceful assembly; and
    (d) freedom of association.

    We have the exact same free speech rights as the US.

    1. Re:Submitter doesn't know his own rights by saihung · · Score: 1

      Not to mention that he doesn't understand the concept of "hate crimes," which are not about speech but motivation.

    2. Re:Submitter doesn't know his own rights by dryeo · · Score: 2

      You should note that Canada has less free speech than in America (we have 'hate crime laws'),

      From the Charter of Rights and Freedoms:

      2. Everyone has the following fundamental freedoms:
      (a) freedom of conscience and religion;
      (b) freedom of thought, belief, opinion and expression, including freedom of the press and other media of communication;
      (c) freedom of peaceful assembly; and
      (d) freedom of association.

      We have the exact same free speech rights as the US.

      Section 1 places some limits on our rights,

      1. The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms guarantees the rights and freedoms set out in it subject only to such reasonable limits prescribed by law as can be demonstrably justified in a free and democratic society.

      Note that in practice America does the same with their Bill of Rights, which is why child porn is illegal down there.

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    3. Re:Submitter doesn't know his own rights by Seq · · Score: 2

      However, section 1 does set limits on the rights granted in other sections.

      http://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/Const/page-15.html#h-40

      Rights and freedoms in Canada

      1. The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms guarantees the rights and freedoms set out in it subject only to such reasonable limits prescribed by law as can be demonstrably justified in a free and democratic society.

      This is why hate speech and obscenity laws are enforceable.

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    4. Re:Submitter doesn't know his own rights by cavebison · · Score: 1

      2. Everyone has the following fundamental freedoms:

      Wait, what's this.. very small, fine print underneath.. can't make it out.. something about "national security" and "in the national interest"...

  51. Should be legal by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I say this because the internet needs to be free without rules or regulations with exception of protection to TLD.

  52. Re:Things like this... by BitterOak · · Score: 2

    Canadians don't necessarily have the exact same values as Americans, and one of those values is that hate speech is criminal rather than protected.

    There's a difference between laws and values. I think many Americans would agree that not all American laws reflect values that all American's hold. Similarly, just because Canada has much less protection for freedom of speech in law doesn't mean that Canadians don't value free speech. I'm Canadian, and myself and virtually every other Canadian that I've talked to on this matter hates Canadian hate speech laws and wishes we had the same protection for freedom of speech as America has. Of course, not all Canadians feel this way, but it is a huge generalization to assume all or most Canadians agree with these laws or that they somehow reflect Canadian "values".

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  53. Re:Things like this... by Stoutlimb · · Score: 1

    Back in it's day, the Stileproject operated from Canada for years and years, and hosted new shocking shit daily. Stile himself checked with authorities and everything was just fine. WTF happened with this site that is so different? Selective enforcement because the site operator is a mouthy prick?

  54. Re:Things like this... by fustakrakich · · Score: 1

    I see it as 200 years of misinterpretation of the phrase 'no law'. And please note that the amendment does not qualify it in any fashion. That's just shit the courts made up, and people fall for it.

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  55. Re:Things like this... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

    because it encourages the producers

    Who cares?

    Please start by defining "porn" and "child", and then explain why producing "child porn" is bad, granted that no "children" get abused in the process. If a child is OK with it, why do you bother? Here, I can help you with "child": in US, it's anyone under about 18. So if you possess or share a picture of you and your wife having consensual sex, both of you 17, then you should rot in prison. Right?

    Now imagine you are 10. Would you rather get beaten and raped by your older brother (no filming), or have a picture of you touching wieners posted on the Internet (no abuse involved)? This is not even comparable: kids will do the latter just for fun. Or would, if they were not scared by the sheer amount of punishment from the law. At the same time, humans were abusing children sexually since before they could write or draw. Instead of cracking down on people who actually abuse children, you tacitly advocate imprisoning artists and wankers who wouldn't hurt a fly. Instead of allowing people to have an honest discussion about sexual abuse within families (which is the majority of all sexual abuse), you want it censored. All of this tells me that you don't really give a rat's ass about children being abused. All you want is to maintain your puritanical community standard, and if the children get raped not on camera, you are perfectly content. 'Cause if you can't see it, it's not happening, right?

  56. Re:Things like this... by broken_chaos · · Score: 1

    If you read the article you linked, the substantial change is only in how it's prosecuted. It's still a crime, it's just not under the jurisdiction of human rights tribunals.

  57. Just use the alternatives, it's still hosted by Cito · · Score: 1

    The video is still hosted at the alternative sites and the larger more popular sites

    http://theync.com/
    http://www.documentingreality.com/forum/
    http://www.ogrishforum.com/

    and others,

    they all still have the video up as well as fresh meat daily :P

  58. Re:Things like this... by Motard · · Score: 1

    Interesting glasses you must have.

  59. Icky topic by Firethorn · · Score: 1

    I find the idea extremely 'icky', to say the least, but it depends where you are. While Canada has different rules and limitations, if I remember right the supreme court shot down banning 'artificial' CP. Rules can be different on possession if you've been convicted, are out on parole, and the restriction is part of your parole terms.

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  60. This is reality by Beeftopia · · Score: 1

    Grisly, grotesque, dripping reality. It's the thing that science strives to accurately describe.

    Reality is a multi-faceted thing, like a diamond.

    Reality ranges from whimsical and happy, to joyous, to mournful, to horrific to grisly. The Internet just allows you to see what you previously could not. If you don't want to look at the whole of it, don't. But don't force it to be hidden from the rest of us. That would be deceptive.

    There are some very unpleasant truths out there.

  61. Re:Showing the video is a crime because it is thef by JesseMcDonald · · Score: 1

    The mere fact that the victim is in the film does not imply that the victim owns the film. The property right argument works the other way: whoever owns the film has the right to share it with others.

    There are laws regarding the use of someone's image without a model release, but they aren't based on (or even consistent with) property rights.

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  62. Re:Showing the video is a crime because it is thef by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    So instead of arbitrarily banning movies of real murders, we can base it on an equally arbitrary, but more general, declaration of a likeness as "property" which can be "stolen."

    It's great that you have a fetish for this stuff, but it's not particularly compelling outside your sphere.

  63. Re:Things like this... by yndrd1984 · · Score: 1

    In the land of the free even donating money is considered "free speech", go figure.

    Donating money isn't free speech, but preventing people from working together to get a message out interfers with their ability to use their free speech.

  64. Re:Things like this... by Seumas · · Score: 2

    Yes it is. Read the Constitution. "Congress shall make no laws..."

    It doesn't say "unless what you say hurts someone's feelings, is super gross, is obscene, isn't accepted by your local community, or is inciting hatred/violence/fear/etc".

    It's a pretty dangerous thing to be going around trying to convince people that the freedom of speech has "limitations". Only in its application -- not in its spirit (or writing).

    This is how we end up with idiots promoting the idea that "well, free speech is really only intended for journalists - fuck the rest of you".

  65. Re:Things like this... by Seumas · · Score: 1

    You mean, the ones he has that reads things as they are stated? Yep.

  66. Re:Things like this... by fustakrakich · · Score: 2

    Yeah? Find me any limits written into the document. The only legitimate way to limit speech in the US is to amend the constitution. The process is explicitly written down, in that same constitution.

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  67. Re:Things like this... by pspahn · · Score: 1

    Its quite clear Adams & Madison intended for "freedom of the press' to mean much more than the act of pressing ink into paper.

    It does. Freedom of the Press also refers to "publication and distribution of information". The medium used is not relevant.

    The difference with this case is that it can very easily fail the bad tendency test, and while this is Canada and not the US, I would assume that similar exceptions are made in nearly every modern democracy.

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  68. If you want moral equivalence by davidwr · · Score: 1

    The exceptional "no crime committed" child porn are probably morally equivalent to filming an execution, self-defense-related death, war-related death, legal euthanasia/assisted suicide, or any other other legal homicide.

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  69. Re:Things like this... by sjwt · · Score: 1

    No more free speech then posting videos of rape and child molestation.

    "Freedom of speech is the political right to communicate one's opinions and ideas using one's body and property to anyone who is willing to receive them."

    I fail to see what opinions and ideas are being communicated.

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  70. Re:Things like this... by sjwt · · Score: 4, Insightful

    What's worse is it seems the submitter for the post has been brain washed into believing all this 'Land of the free and home of the brave' rubbish.

    32nd on the list of free speech for the press.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Press_Freedom_Index

    Sure you still have some of your citizens rights, but it seems you are losing more and more every day, the government now can and will spy on you with out warrant, letting the ppl know about this lands you with ironically charges of being a spy..

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  71. Re:Political Parties' Names by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Straight to the clip.

  72. Re:Things like this... by sjwt · · Score: 1

    Not being up-to-date with gore webpages this maybe from the same one, interesting though.

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    It is easy to tell which search terms were used by the sheep because their search phrases are as sick and repulsive as the sheep themselves. If what people searched for to land here makes your stomach turn, it’s from the sheep. How can I say that? Easy – students of Best Gore come to the website directly as they have for years. They are well aware of the content the website provides and do not go out of their way to search for “7 year old vagina fingered” like the sheep do.

    What People Searched For To Land Here:
    - www childfuckingmotherpics com - a 15 year old raped me bestgore porn - man fucking sheep - childfuckingmotherpics - sheep porn - guy fucking sheep - fucking a sheep - w w w best gore chocked nude com - guy fucking a sheep -www childfuckingmotherpics com

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  73. Re:Showing the video is a crime because it is thef by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    So... if a news program shows a video where someone is getting killed, and that person didn't give consent to be filmed... what? Charge the news program with a crime?

  74. Re:Things like this... by Vhann · · Score: 2

    > If a child is OK with it, why do you bother?

    The rhetoric is that a child is not legally able to give consent, so all sex with a child is legally rape.
    A line had to be drawn somewhere, be it 16, 18 or 21 or whatever else in your country.

    As for hypothetical situations where two children have sex, you take naked pictures of yourself as a child and circulate them as an adult, etc. I do not know. I suppose it would have to be tried in court.

  75. Re:Showing the video is a crime because it is thef by Comrade+Ogilvy · · Score: 1

    Perhaps. But laws restricting exploitation of crimes in this manner could be based on a property rights argument, thus sidestepping any 1st Amendment question. You may have a right to free expression, but you do not have a right to publish for your benefit that which you do not own. The fact that someone shows up with something to sell you that he probably does not own is not necessarily a defense.

    Gee, if I own a disk drive with a digital copy of Pacific Rim, do I have a right to share that with others? Perhaps gaining revenue from advertising along the way? Obviously not.

    A piece of celluloid or tape or a disk drive may give the benefit of the doubt in certain cases, but it is already true that one does not get the benefit of the doubt in all cases. It is an appropriate act of the legislature to expand the property rights and privacy rights of not consenting individuals.

  76. Thats how the legal system works by gmuslera · · Score: 1

    i.e. while Hollywood had a century showing graphical killing, desmembering, torturing, mutilating, melting, or just cheering mass murdering, hate speech and promoting addictive and nocive substances, they get the approval seal from the state/law/etc (and in a lot of cases, the script gets a little consulting for making the message closer to the current government agenda).

    What is the diference between a "real" killing (if you didn't do it, at least) and a fictional one that depicts in a even more gruesome way a real one? Would the director of i.e. the Enola Gay movie be convicted for mass murdering?

    1. Re:Thats how the legal system works by Testudo+Kleinmanni · · Score: 1

      Differentiating between reality and fiction? How quaint.

  77. Re: Things like this... by statusbar · · Score: 2

    Pardon my ignorance but.... Isn't there a law against Snowden exercising his free speech rights to disclose what he learned about the NSA?

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  78. Re:Things like this... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    There is good reason to not ban child porn. Real or fake. It's a mistake to do so because it opens up the floodgates to go after people for other types of speech. Once you start arguing 'it is bad' or 'it causes harm' (ie more rape, which is unproven, and unlikely to be scientifically correct) and thus this 'speech should be illegal' you can ban just about anything.

    This video is distasteful although the family should not have 'protection' from being disgusted. Is it f'd up to show the family the video? Sure. But the person who is f'd up is the person showing/pointing out the video to the family.

    A person who enjoyed the f'd up video, posted it etc, is far less f'd up than the one who pointed it out to the family. The person who posted it is actually doing society a favor. They are reducing the likelihood of someone taking actions into there own hands (killing people) because they have no other way to satisfy there sexual urges.

    People can only ever be in part at fault for there own actions. People are what nature and society make of them. If we (society) abuse our fellow man (deprive the deprived further) we are no better than they.

  79. He got charged because he embarrassed the police by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    I seem to recall, in the immediate aftermath of this, it was revealed the site owner, and various visitors of the site who saw the video, called police and tried to warn them that a murder had been committed. The police didn't believe them until the body parts started showing up. If the police had bothered to act in time, people wouldn't have had body parts mailed to them, and the victim's family would have a more complete, less decomposed, body to bury.

    This was in the news afterwards, and embarrassed police had to deal with questions about it during press conferences.

  80. Corrupting Morality by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    "Accuse me of 'corrupting morality', which, I wish I had the power to do".

  81. Re:Things like this... by wonkey_monkey · · Score: 1

    bugger the sheep

    Jump the shark?

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  82. what? by SuperDre · · Score: 1

    So if you show video's which depict real life situations you're charges with morals corruption?
    Why aren't they going after news-sites and tv-program's? a lot of times, they show exactly the same video's..
    I'm sorry, but this is just ridiculous..

    1. Re:what? by Testudo+Kleinmanni · · Score: 1

      Lack of context, I suppose. Is why.

  83. Re: Things like this... by hawkinspeter · · Score: 1

    I think it's more that Snowden freely signed a contract to not divulge that information. I personally think he was justified in breaking that contract, but he knew he would get into trouble over it.

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  84. Re:Canada by hawkinspeter · · Score: 2

    What's the point of rhetorical questions?

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  85. How does this qualify as by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    "news for nerds, stuff that matters"?

  86. Show me the contract by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    show me the contract that says he agreed to hide crimes and commit crimes himself by doing so.

    And also, in case you really are too fucking sick and thick to know, you cannot sign away your statutory rights in a contract. No signing a contract for slavery, no contract for signing away your free speech rights.

    No
    Such
    Thing.

    1. Re:Show me the contract by hawkinspeter · · Score: 1

      Firstly, thanks for your polite, well reasoned post.

      Secondly, I agree that he was justified in breaking the contract to disclose criminal behaviour by his employer/government. If only everyone had his level of courage/personal responsibility, then the world would be a much better place.

      Thirdly, I think you are getting confused over two separate issues. His right to freedom of speech is not affected by signing a contract. However, if he breaks that contract, then he can expect to face the consequences of breaking that contract. In addition, there is the Espionage Act of 1917 that he is likely to be breaking.

      Personally, I think the US government should give him complete immunity and welcome him as a hero, but that would encourage whistle blowers which in some circumstances can endanger government/military agents.

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  87. You forget: Soros is a JEW!!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Yup, just like the hate-on for Obama is because he's a nigga in the whitehouse, Soros is The Evil Mastermind In Residence because he's a Jew.

    It really isn't any more complicated than that.

  88. Re:Things like this... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    So the contracts signing away free speech that Manning and Snowden signed are unconstitutional, right?

  89. Shaky finger raised over pandemonious flame-war by Testudo+Kleinmanni · · Score: 1

    Should we truly apply the concept of free speech as naively as some believe they do, would tutelage of any language to any infant not be necessarily a crime most heinous? No, since speech by definition must convey a message. Ergo, a speaker, being a generator of speech, must belong to one of three categories: A confabulator of fiction, a proclaimer of supposed fact or a deceiver. Pandering sans a (usually moralistic) narrative framework is blather - not even nonsense. It fails to be complete fiction. In this case the publication merely echoes an immensely bestial action (a murder), the agent to such an act is removed from veritable debate by classical western tradition. What do I fail to understand? Slightest analysis appears to crush the notion this article has anything to do with free speech whatsoever. I lack an opinion on it's legality and lack necessity to form, let alone share, my moral standing regarding this type of vapid publication. (Be it that the video and persumably it's vehicle site fail to meet the basic criteria to count as articles of actual speech, I propose we could equally and perhaps more fruitfully and better serving us individual members of the readers collective "how acrid must flatulence be that we are in the right removing it's progenitor from civilized society?")

    1. Re:Shaky finger raised over pandemonious flame-war by Testudo+Kleinmanni · · Score: 1

      A speaker must fall into one of three categories assuming the expressed notion both follows a system for logic and stands in relation to a reality to meet the basest criteria for speech. Editing derp.

  90. Fantasy vs Real Life by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    It's not the same argument. Games, movies, etc. aren't real. They're fantasy. The distinction between the two is important.

  91. Re:Things like this... by fustakrakich · · Score: 1

    I doubt that self censorship is illegal, but punishing one for speaking out (in the US) clearly is. Until the constitution is amended, the words 'no law' are as absolute as anything can be.

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  92. Re:Things like this... by kilfarsnar · · Score: 2

    Murder as free speech. America really has something funny in its water supply.

    Electrolytes!

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  93. Morality = Taliban, Prove Otherwise, EH? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    This is Canada, wherein if moral indignation is expressed by Christians, it is called incitement to hatred and people get hauled like a side of beef in a slaughterhouse to the provincial Human Rights Commission. However, when the same exact words are uttered by Non-Christians (especially Muslims)... crickets, frogs, katydids, etc.

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  94. Re:Things like this... by bikerminstrel · · Score: 1

    What speech? Did he add a witty title or something. The video isn't his speech any more than me posting a torrent is my free speech. It is just copying some bits.

    It's not that bizarre to consider this a free speech issue. It does sound like this person was just posting these videos for certain sick people's amusement, and I would agree that society wouldn't be losing anything valuable by shutting this guy's website down. However, imagine if a site was posting videos of police brutality, in order to make people aware of what the police were doing. Even though the site operator didn't take the videos personally, I would still say this would definitely fall right into the primary type of speech that free speech laws are meant to protect -- allowing citizens to criticize their government and mobilize support against government policies. It's easy to imagine that if this "gore site" mentioned in the article gets taken down, then a government could use whatever precedent was set in that case to shut down a site that was posting videos of police brutality, by just claiming that the videos are in bad taste or whatever. So maybe we don't want to give a government the authority to decide what is and isn't in good taste, even if that means allowing some abhorrent sites to exist.

  95. Re:Things like this... by compro01 · · Score: 1

    Hate speech is still illegal. It just now has to go through the normal courts (incl. being picked up by a Crown Prosecutor/Attorney) rather than the Human Rights Tribunals.

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  96. This. by DarthVain · · Score: 1

    Though in the true vein of Slashdot I would have used a car analogy thusly:

    If your buddy say commits a crime, like stealing a car. Then you, knowing it is stolen drive it around. Guess what you are an accessory. You will be charged with a crime if found out, particularly if you publicize the fact of exactly what you are doing.
    Say you don't even know the guy who stole the car, or that the car was even stolen, and it is found out, you are going to lose the car, and too bad for you that you didn't know it was stolen.

    So no the guy didn't murder and chop up someone and film it (which presumably is many serious crimes). He just posted the film online for all to see. I would see this also as a crime (abet a lesser one of course), and punishable. Yes I am Canadian.

    Yes I would agree that this is a slippery slope that needs be carefully applied, but in this case I think personally I would agree.

    That said I have never even heard of the law "Corrupting Morals" which does sound rather dubious and perhaps arbitrary. Hopefully it is a well defined and strictly applied law. You would think there would be other more pertinent laws he could have been charged with, so I am not sure why they may have picked this obscure one (or perhaps it is just obscure as it is hardly ever used, as it is very defined and limited use)?

  97. Re:Things like this... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Therein lies the difference between EVOLUTION that has become Canada and REVOLUTION that has become the USA.

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  98. possession laws by davidwr · · Score: 1

    It's illegal to possess a self-made underaged-porn pic.

    I would argue that possessing self-made underaged porn by the photographer (or by his parents, if "stored on his behalf until he is 18" - i.e. not used for viewing) or possessed by anyone after he turns 18 with his permission is morally equivalent to possessing a photo of a legal homicide or suicide (yeah, I know, suicide is illegal, but pretend it's not), assuming the photo was taken with the permission of all parties in the photo, that all living parties of the photo do not object to the person who is possessing it having it, and that prior to death, the homicide/suicide victim expressly said it was okay for the image to be either distributed or be in the hands of the person who possesses it.

    Having said that, the "permission" should be given freely and without any financial or similar reward that turns it from "free speech" to "commercial speech." In other words, no signing a big contract to sell the rights of that photo you made of yourself when you were 14 and no selling of that suicide photo of your next-of-kin, and no "I'll show you mine if you show me yours" bartering.

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  99. Re:Things like this... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    The phrase of interest is "carefully carved exceptions to the First Amendment".

  100. Re:Things like this... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    what is wrong with you? this would be a clear violation of the site owner's rights of freedom of speech in the US. the site owner didnt commit any crimes, he simply uploaded a video of it to his own site, which is protected under free speech.

    So the United States has no laws prohibiting the posting of child porn or bestiality images?

    Are you dense? Distributing child porn is a crime, which definitely would -NOT- fall under his point of "The site owner didn't commit any crimes".

  101. Re:Things like this... by bhiestand · · Score: 1

    As for hypothetical situations where two children have sex, you take naked pictures of yourself as a child and circulate them as an adult, etc. I do not know. I suppose it would have to be tried in court.

    It's not a hypothetical--it has happened numerous times. There are plenty of registered sex offenders and inmates who were convicted of producing child pornography, in addition to the regular distribution/possession charges. Freest nation on earth and all that...

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  102. Re:Showing the video is a crime because it is thef by bhiestand · · Score: 1

    Different kinds of property rights apply, really.

    On private property, the owners have control over what can and cannot be filmed/released. "I didn't want to appear in that video" generally doesn't apply, but permission to film on private property may. IIRC, there are some exceptions for journalism. See: case law on slaughter house videos, etc. Video of a murder occurring in public should, IMO, be public.

    If the murderer had been advertising for S&W in the film, the publisher would have been liable under misappropriation of image.

    There *are* Son of Sam laws on profiting from crime. If the murderer filmed this himself, or a co-conspirator did, I don't see why standard asset forfeiture would not apply.

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  103. Re:Things like this... by iplayfast · · Score: 1

    I don't believe that Canada has less protection for freedom of speech. Maybe lately, because they've been following the lead of the states. But to give a historical perspective, Canada had a communist party decades before the US would allow it. They were never voted in, but they were allowed to run. (free speech and all). Canada has never nationalized gold (The US has twice), Canada has never locked up a group of people because of race. (Negroes, American Indians, and Asian for the US). Canada has never shot protesters. They've locked them up recently but they were let go later. The US has songs about it:

    Tin soldiers and Nixon coming,
    We're finally on our own.
    This summer I hear the drumming,
    Four dead in Ohio.

    The Americans are tend to give Christian religions a free pass, but anything else is under very tight scrutiny. Less so in Canada.

    Americans in general give great lip service to free speech but compared to Canada it's not as free. Then again, Canada isn't as free as it's lip service either.