PM Calls Facebook Irresponsible For Allowing Beheading Clips

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PM Calls Facebook Irresponsible For Allowing Beheading Clips

Posted by timothy on Monday October 21, 2013 @11:15PM from the please-don't-do-that dept.

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."

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Excellent by AmiMoJo · 2013-10-21 23:20 · Score: 5, Insightful

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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Re:PM? Which country by Anonymous Coward · 2013-10-21 23:25 · Score: 5, Insightful

There's a bunch of countries in the world with PMs. 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?
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?
Re:Won't somebody think of the children... by daem0n1x · 2013-10-21 23:55 · Score: 5, Insightful

Then allow people to post nudity and sex. I can't see how naked people can be considered worse than a guy getting his head cut off. American puritanism in its worse.
And before all the jingos start telling me "if you don't like American puritanism, then don't use Facebook", I declare: I don't use it.
Re:PM? Which country by 91degrees · 2013-10-21 23:59 · Score: 5, Insightful

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.
Re:PM? Which country by Anonymous Coward · 2013-10-22 00:00 · Score: 5, Funny

I have no fucking idea which one David Cameron runs.
That's OK. David Cameron doesn't know either.
Re:PM? Which country by TrollstonButterbeans · 2013-10-22 00:10 · Score: 5, Funny

David Cameron is British. A few years ago, he moved to the US to play soccer in California.

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