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Depressing That Anyone Would Willingly Want To See That, But That's 2019 For You
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Andy Parker is the father of Alison Parker, the Roanoke TV reporter who was shot to death on live TV by a former co-worker who then posted GoPro video of the incident online before killing himself. Andy is angry at Google because its YouTube won't block the video from being disseminated. They CAN take it down, but they won't. All they do is say that they'll prevent any snuff videos -- that's what this is -- from being monetized with pre-roll ads, but they won't take the videos down unless the victims' families themselves flag them, and that means they're putting the onus on the victims to police their business. Is that how it should work? Should the victims' families have to be on the lookout for video of their loved ones' murder, or is that the job of the business profiting from the videos and the clicks? (And this is not a First Amendment issue; Google is not the government, and can "censor" whatever it wants on its platform.) (New York Post)
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