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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."
Unfortunately this will likely help him in his quest for web censorship...
This is wonderful news. Facebook will now be blocked by default in the government porn filters, and thus far more people will opt out of them. Turns out Facebook is actually useful for something.
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'It's irresponsible of Facebook to post beheading videos, especially without a warning. They must explain their actions to worried parents.'
So much fail...
Facebook doesn't post any beheading videos. It's users do.
I thought we were allowed to be irresponsible as long as it's legal?
If my Facebook friends don't like the content that I may or may not post, then they can hide it or unfriend me.
Looks like he's trying to win Family Votes, and slashdot is helping to peddle this crap.
Shame on you timothy. Shame on you.
Why not do what everyone else who lives outside the USA is expected to do (when they see the name of some US-based politician) and just Google it?
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.
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The prime minister said the social network must explain its decision to allow images showing decapitations to worried parents.
I would strongly advise worried parents not to watch decapitation clips.
I wouldn't mind. I don't have friends who'd do such thing.
If you have many friends who would like to post rape videos and snuff films maybe it's your problem and not everybody else's.
Facebook calls PM sissy fop for censoring what the children already see in games, on t.v. and in the backyard with a Barbie and Ken execution playset.
" Who is this irritation and why does he not realize that "I" govern more people than his silly little country and the Catholic Church combined?" said Zuckerburg, wiping the powder from beneath his nostrils and grabbing another turkey leg. " Off with his head!"
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Nah, he's just a 'Murican!
Seriously, this is a MAJOR problem with the so-called "news" in the US. It's so US-centric (and crime and entertainment-centric) that even the prime minister of the UK is not known by name.
It really needs to be consistently applied, don't you think - there's often a reference to something particularly USian that needs further research. Either concede that it's going to be necessary sometimes, given the nature of a summary, or give the full background detail for all regardless of if it originates in the US
He's criticising Slashdot. Whether he googles or not, Slashdot should still have provided this information. There's no reason not to say "British PM".
Perhaps he should know. Perhaps everyone should, but for any snippet of information, there will be a non trivial number of people who are not aware of it. Good journalists provide the information concisely withut forcing the reader to get key details elsewhere.
I have no fucking idea which one David Cameron runs.
That's OK. David Cameron doesn't know either.
Is there any part of the internet (aside from its utility for dystopian surveillance) that hasn't caused David Cameron to open his horrible, gormless, marshmallow-face and drone on about 'the children' and 'irresponsibility'? It's as though his government has entirely run out of substantive policy or something...
so what happened last time the British tried to enforce their morality across the pond....
I don't remember the American Revolution having much of a moral element.... In fact, while we've done a great deal to get over it, the US was substantially stocked by a mixture of moralizing assholes too moralistic to get along in Britain (ye olde puritans) and would-be feudal lords who couldn't compete with the incumbents at home and therefore went abroad (ye olde slave plantation regions).
Some political discontent, some economic interests; but King George wasn't exactly getting all up in our right to own filthy erotic lithographs...
David Cameron is British. A few years ago, he moved to the US to play soccer in California.
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As pointed out elsewhere, Facebook has the same odd puritanical streak as found throughout the USA. You can watch people being beheaded, but they still firmly forbid pictures of breastfeeding moms. The sight of a female breast might excite prurient passions, whereas watching a murder is just spiffy.
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I suppose it is OK to post rape videos and snuff films on Facebook now as well.
Probably is... as long as you don't show any nipples!
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One thing to keep in mind is that these are videos of crimes. That is certainly the case in the Mexican excample that I saw cited.
I'll leave it up to you whether you support the posting of videos of crimes, but I don't see a good reason for it. Even in the cases of political speech and exposing human rights violations, you rarely need to resort to messages that are so graphic.
Politics is only as important as we let them make it. It's hard sometimes for the politically active to acknowledge, but that's the deal.
How silly of me, of course politics have nothing to do with unimportant things such as that the houses most of us live in are subjected to building codes, whether your children's school curriculum include intelligent design next to evolution or not, minimum wages, military spending and the taxes we pay towards it, infrastructure, health care, accessibility to clean water.
"I have downloaded hundreds and hundreds of records, why would I care if somebody downloads ours?" Robin Pecknold
"I'm not convinced they're actually capable of being principled on these things"
Doesnt look to me like they even tried to pretend otherwise. Rather than taking a stand to censor or allow these videos, they seem to be saying they will censor them - but only if they dont like the reactions that are being posted. I believe that's the least principled stand they could possibly have taken here.
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Next thing you know, Facebook will be showing ads to people without any warning. Perhaps even children!
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Yeah, No.
The UK isn't nearly as influential as the US. No country is. (Not American btw).
If you live in Europe then yes, the UK is influential and the name of the British PM should be common knowledge.
If you live on a different continent, I don't see why it's necessary.
The again, I'd say knowing the leaders of all the G8, even G20 countries is basic knowledge most adults *should* have.
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