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Magic_Sailor

Magic_Sailor

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Am I being touchy?

There are a lot of links lately to video clips that show quite horrific accidents - helicopters, Moscow tunnel etc.

There is a tendency to view them with a sort of fascinated amusement - like watching Tom and Jerry. However, the violence of them is real. Some of the clips I've seen could well have ended up with one or more people dead.

Therefore, should we continue to post these links?

Would we still watch them if they were billed as a "snuff movie"?

Magic
 
Are you suggesting some form of censorship?
I don't find them particularly interesting, but I don't think that's a reason to prevent others posting or viewing them.
 
No, not censorship

Maybe, if I'm right, we should just have a general agreement not to post 'em.

In any case, there could be an arguement here for censorship... I assume you would want the following links to be censored out:

Snuff movies
Acts of child abuse
Child pornography
Torture
etc
etc

I'm sure they're all there somewhere

???

Magic
 
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Would we still watch them if they were billed as a "snuff movie"?

[/ QUOTE ] No, we wouldn't; but they're not, are they? Snuff movies - if they are anything more than an urban myth - supposedly show people being killed, not bits of machinery crashing into each other.

Like Lakesailor, I don't find these clips particularly edifying, in the same way that I don't particularly like watching people suffer painful accidents on "You've Been Framed" but I don't think they should be banned. I suppose it's the 21st Century equivalent of bear-baiting or cock-fighting.......

News reports often have similar footage - and worse - should we stop that as well? Perhaps I'm not sensitive enough?
 
I'd have to say that I have no problem what so ever with them. They are posted as links and no one is holding a gun to my head to open the link. It's the dodgy pics that I have no control over when I open a thread that sometimes annoy me.

So no, keep free choice for all members.
 
Re: No, not censorship

Aaaarrrgh... You've fallen into Lakey's trap by responding to his comment about censorship. /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif Next it'll be Mary Whitehouse (funny name, rhymes with toilet), Lord Bloody Longford, state interference, curtailing freedom of speech etc.....

You asked:
<ul type="square"> Therefore, should we continue to post these links?

Would we still watch them if they were billed as a "snuff movie"? [/list]

I would suggest "No" to both answers.
 
Re: No, not censorship

I think it would depend on who is being tortured.

I think I could happily watch T Bliar and his nextdoor neighboor being stretched out on a rack /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif
 
I've posted on this before,I am not a supporter of censorship and certainly would not impose my standards of what is right or wrong on anyone.All I ask is that when people link to sites showing death and injury that they signal an indicator of content in the title or link,and then I can skip it.
 
If such videos appeared on broadcast TV then there would be an outpouring of rage, the assumption being that the Powers That Be should filter what we are seeing, so that it is anodyne enough not to offend the primmest of spinsters.

If it happened in real life, in front of your eyes, then you would have no control over what you or your children, or other companions saw.

This is the web, a sort of in-between place. It's most definitely far removed from the real world, but it is not policed, as such, and anything is possible. A lot of people say things they'd never say in a "real" public environment. You have a measure of control over what you see, but not over what your companions choose to access. If you don't like the company you're in, then you can always leave. Moderators really exist to ensure that the majority of people accessing their website conform to the sort of persona they'd like to see, rather than making it nice and safe for everyone.

If it is a link, with a caveat like "this is gory" or "Cor she's got big norks" then you open it at your own peril. If it had a comment like "click here for the WI course on jam making", without mentioning the norks, then you would have cause for complaint. In between is what is technically known as a "Grey area".

Personally, I treat it as a learning experience, and if someone posts something, repeatedly, that is offensive I don't bother to listen to him/her any more. But that hasn't happened yet, even in The Lounge.
 
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I'd have to say that I have no problem what so ever with them. They are posted as links and no one is holding a gun to my head to open the link. It's the dodgy pics that I have no control over when I open a thread that sometimes annoy me.

So no, keep free choice for all members.

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There is no choice, where is the choice,

<span style="color:blue"> Watch This </span>

Not a link, but it could open anything. I think people should be cautious, last year we had pictures of a bloke crushed under a trucks wheels, yes he was dead, no it was not something I wanted to see.

No I do not rubber neck, I have no interest in others misfortune. Yes I find some videos amusing, but have wondered about watching people die, like the infamous missile clip from Iraq, with the funny fastest man in Iraq tag. Pretty sick sh<span style="color:black">it</span>.
 
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There is no choice, where is the choice,

<span style="color:blue"> Watch This </span>

Not a link, but it could open anything.

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You're right, it could open anything, so I wouldn't open it unless the poster described what it was and I checked the address and file type before opening it. Just because someone says "watch this" doesn't mean I'll blindly obey in a sheep like manner. If someone said Jump off <span style="color:blue"> <u>this</u> </span> cliff, would you...?

Like I said, keep free choice for all members. If it's illegal and they're stupid enough to post it then it should be passed onto the authorities!
 
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