An Argument For Not Taking Down Horrific Videos
Freedom of speech.
There done. Issue solved. Next?
Freedom of speech doesn't mean providing someone a soap box.
True, but it does mean that you have a right to provide someone a soapbox regardless of how much someone else might not want to hear them.
Because that's not what ISIS wants - they want everyone to either join their cause, or die. Sacrificing the freedom we believe in for whatever reason is not helping them win, but it is helping us lose.
Side note, if you have that much of a problem with people getting entertainment from the suffering g of others, I suggest writing a sternly worded letter to the producers of the TV show "COPS."
Also, every Japanese game show ever.
...completely no-holes-barred...
Usually I like to correct people's misunderstanding of terms (like when they spell "Voila" W-A-L-L-A), but I think I'm going to let this one slide, considering the context...
Can't say I disagree with a "no kids on the internet" policy.
Seems the perfect solution - society doesn't have to worry about censoring content to appease shitty parents, shitty parents don't have to worry about the internet fucking up their kids, and can refocus their energy on the schools or whatever other scapegoat they use as an excuse for shitty parenting.
Parents don't control their children's access 24/7. Never have, never will. If you believe a parent can do so, you're living in a fantasyland.
Which is why it is the duty of their parents to teach them right and wrong, so they don't don't end up getting their sense of morality from shit they see on the internet.
If you're letting children browse the internet without supervision, they're going to be the ones who end up needing professional help.
Raising your kid the way you think is right is your job, not society's. If that includes shielding them from horrifying imagery, then shield them, but don't demand society shield everyone because you are too lazy/incompetent/whatever to rear a child properly with the assistance and cooperation of 7 billion other people.
And if you're worried about them seeing these things while outside your influence, might I suggest you do a better job teaching them right from wrong, so you won't have to worry about them getting their morality from YouTube videos.
Gotta love that "I can't control what my toddler sees on the internet but DON'T CALL ME A SHITTY PARENT!" mentality.
Puff the magic dragon is not a "fairy tale dragon." Fairy tale dragons are draconian creatures from ancient tales designed to teach children safety and morals.
Puff the magic dragon is a mid-20th century allegory for getting high by smoking marijuana, written by hippies in the 1960s and set to music.
Wrong.
Censoring ISIS recruiting videos is very clearly not in favor of ISIS and the only freedom it removes is one's freedom to get brainwashed by Muslim extremists.
There is no slippery slope here. Ban all videos put out by an organization called ISIS that feature executions. Who (that was care about) would be harmed by this action?
When did Goebbels create a slashdot account?
Nothing on slashdot is censored - browse at -1 to see every comment regardless of moderation. Posting limits are ties to karma, and designed to limit trollbots (so we're not scrolling through 10,000 MyCleanPC and goatse posts on every thread), not censor discussions.
Your butthurt, though allowed and uncensored, is misplaced.
Only jihadist culture is so demented that they think these videos help their cause.
Oh I don't know... ever seen a US Army recruiting commercial? Less gore by a longshot, but the principle is the same - glorification of war and violence under the tagline "kill people who disagree with your governing leaders!"
Remember the US soldier who slaughtered a bunch of women and kids with a machine gun? There are plenty of Americans who would be happy to show that video to the world over and over again - so maybe we're not the flawless, perfected society we seem to think ourselves when judging others.
If you're a parent and aren't using youtube's free, built in parental controls, that's your bad not society's. Don't be a douche and foist your responsibilities off on everyone else.
Yea, because Islam is the problem, not intolerant pieces of shit who want the world to share their beliefs by means of force in general...
He's not claiming to. Which you would know had you read the actual conversation, rather than offering a kneejerk reaction.
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