PM Calls Facebook Irresponsible For Allowing Beheading Clips

An anonymous reader writes with this excerpt: "David Cameron has attacked Facebook as irresponsible for lifting a ban on videos of beheadings being posted on its site. The prime minister said the social network must explain its decision to allow images showing decapitations to worried parents. Facebook has said users should be free to view such videos and then condemn the content. Cameron wrote on Twitter: 'It's irresponsible of Facebook to post beheading videos, especially without a warning. They must explain their actions to worried parents.' Facebook introduced a temporary ban on such videos in May but has since decided to remove the block on the grounds that the site is used to share information about world events, such as acts of terrorism and human rights abuses."

Comments

Re:PM? Which country

[TheP4st]

I have no fucking idea which one David Cameron runs. How bout throwing us a bone and just telling us which country we're talking about?

How about that you read or watch news about world events once in a while? Note that by world events I do not mean what Rihanna wore on the red carpet or what Justin Bieber did last night but actual politics as in that stuff that pretty much play an important part in our daily lives. Bone for the search engine impaired and generally ignorant.

Re:Excellent

[fatphil]

I was expecting your post to veer in this direction:

This is wonderful news. Facebook will now be blocked by default in the government porn filters, and thus far more people will just give up on using facebook, and it will be forgotten about and disappear. Turns out the government is actually useful for something.

Re:Won't somebody think of the children...

[Baloroth]

And yet it's the UK that is rolling out a country wide porn filtering system that you have to opt out of.