Comments on: YouTube rejects mutant monitoring http://thetrenchcoat.com/2007/11/24/youtube-rejects-mutant-monitoring/ Poking the crime world in the eye with a sharp pointy stick Thu, 04 Dec 2008 23:03:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: Cal http://thetrenchcoat.com/2007/11/24/youtube-rejects-mutant-monitoring/#comment-2485 Cal Sat, 24 Nov 2007 22:09:33 +0000 http://thetrenchcoat.com/2007/11/24/youtube-rejects-mutant-monitoring/#comment-2485 In my opinion, if you're going to own/run such a huge website like youtube where kids and other people are able to boast about their crimes before and after they commit them, they have the responsibility to monitor them closely. They need to hire more people to spend the time looking for such videos and deleting accounts daily and banning IP addresses, etc. It's their responsibility. If they don't, they don't deserve to reap the benefits of such a website at the cost of murderers slipping through their wide-open fingers. Free speech and expression is only free when it harms none. Just watch. All of the next shooters will have been posting threats on youtube for years. I wonder how many deaths it will take before they will realize their responsibility. Keep track of it. Take it all the way to congress every year, add the next year's death tolls to it until someone listens. Youtube is providing a forum for them to publish their own version of their mimicking of the "basement tapes" etc. There has to be some law that can be used to force them to monitor their site and hold them partially accountable for providing such a forum without moderation... In real life, if parents allow their kids to meet up with other kids who are full of hate and want to kill people, it's a crime. It's called child endangerment. If a parent doesn't know what their child is up to and where they are and who they are with, they can go to jail. But parents can't be held accountable for not knowing what their kids are up to in cyberspace because it's imaginary. Allowing kids to congregate in real life to further their hate and talk about their plans of destruction is something the parents can be arrested for. Do it in cyberspace and no one can be held accountable for having ANY responsibility whatsoever to put some goddamn restraints or restrictions in place. Heaven forbid we draw any lines in this "free" society. In my opinion, if you’re going to own/run such a huge website like youtube where kids and other people are able to boast about their crimes before and after they commit them, they have the responsibility to monitor them closely. They need to hire more people to spend the time looking for such videos and deleting accounts daily and banning IP addresses, etc. It’s their responsibility. If they don’t, they don’t deserve to reap the benefits of such a website at the cost of murderers slipping through their wide-open fingers.

Free speech and expression is only free when it harms none.

Just watch. All of the next shooters will have been posting threats on youtube for years. I wonder how many deaths it will take before they will realize their responsibility. Keep track of it. Take it all the way to congress every year, add the next year’s death tolls to it until someone listens.

Youtube is providing a forum for them to publish their own version of their mimicking of the “basement tapes” etc. There has to be some law that can be used to force them to monitor their site and hold them partially accountable for providing such a forum without moderation…

In real life, if parents allow their kids to meet up with other kids who are full of hate and want to kill people, it’s a crime. It’s called child endangerment. If a parent doesn’t know what their child is up to and where they are and who they are with, they can go to jail. But parents can’t be held accountable for not knowing what their kids are up to in cyberspace because it’s imaginary. Allowing kids to congregate in real life to further their hate and talk about their plans of destruction is something the parents can be arrested for.

Do it in cyberspace and no one can be held accountable for having ANY responsibility whatsoever to put some goddamn restraints or restrictions in place. Heaven forbid we draw any lines in this “free” society.

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