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posted by cmn32480 on Friday August 28 2015, @08:01AM   Printer-friendly
from the and-they-are-annoying-too dept.

UK politicians and have urged Twitter and Facebook to change the default behavior of autoplaying videos following the spread of footage showing the shooting of a WDBJ-TV reporter and cameraman:

MPs have called on Twitter and Facebook to take action after many users were confronted with autoplaying videos of the murder of a US TV news crew. The footage was suspected to have been posted by the murderer on Wednesday. Because the sites have set video to play automatically by default, many people saw the video without choosing to when it was shared into their feeds.

A parliamentary group said the firms should ensure that users are warned about graphic content before it plays. The chair of the cross-party Parliamentary Internet, Communications and Technology Forum (Pictfor) said that both social media sites should automatically sift for such content. "Facebook, Google, Microsoft and others have already worked together with government and regulators to prevent people being exposed to illegal, extremist content, using both automatic and manual techniques to identify footage. Social media, just like traditional media, should consider how shocking other content can be, and make sure consumers are warned appropriately," Matt Warman told the BBC.

The Conservative MP for Boston and Skegness added: "For victims, friends and families it's important to make sure that, in an online world without a watershed, users know what they're about to see and have a reasonable opportunity to stop it." He said that, while users can change their own settings to stop videos auto-playing, Facebook and Twitter "need to be aware that one size does not fit all". He said: "Many people who are ordinarily happy that videos play will have seen shocking footage by accident, without warning of its graphic nature."


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  • (Score: 3, Touché) by Runaway1956 on Friday August 28 2015, @01:48PM

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Friday August 28 2015, @01:48PM (#228973) Journal

    I had to scroll all the way down here to find it.

    I find it hard to understand that Americans can revel in the "victories" claimed by it's armed forces, and to accept the crap done by the "intelligence" communities, but they are so terriblty shocked when brought face-to-video with the real action.

    We insist on being babied, and pampered, and protected from the consequences of our actions.

    Life is for real, people. Most of you PAY to park your asses in a theater seat, so that you can watch psychotic sumbitches blow people away, blow stuff up, wreck cars, abuse women, children, etc ad nauseum. But, God forbid that some reality sneak up and bite you in the ass.

    I have little sympathy for people who get smacked upside the head with a glimpse of reality.

    Besides - if you're dumb enough to have autoplay enabled, then you're dumb enough to watch whatever the hell some dipstick loads on your browser.

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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by jdavidb on Friday August 28 2015, @03:18PM

    by jdavidb (5690) on Friday August 28 2015, @03:18PM (#229018) Homepage Journal

    I find it hard to understand that Americans can revel in the "victories" claimed by it's armed forces, and to accept the crap done by the "intelligence" communities, but they are so terriblty shocked when brought face-to-video with the real action.

    America is by no means a monolith and for the most part people on this sort of site are disproportionately more likely to oppose the actions of America's armed forces for the past N years.

    I supported the American military action of the early 2000's and came to realize it was one of the biggest mistakes of my life. I now oppose essentially every American military action since the Mexican War. (Fun fact; Abraham Lincoln branded that war a war of imperialistic conquest.)

    I don't support any of this stuff and the sooner America's government lets its dissenters peacefully stop supporting it the better.

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    • (Score: 3, Touché) by Runaway1956 on Friday August 28 2015, @03:34PM

      by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Friday August 28 2015, @03:34PM (#229031) Journal

      I understand very well that the US is not a monolithic political belief system. I argue with my fellow Americans daily. Due to the fact that so many Soylentils are more liberal than conservative, I have plenty of opportunity here. ;^)

      As for our recent wars - I supported the invasion of Afghanistan. The invasion, mind you, not the war. Afghanistan should have been a punitive expedition. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punitive_expedition [wikipedia.org]

      Iraq should never have been invaded. Fact is, we created the environment for Daesh (or ISIS, if you insist on the media name) to rise up. Maybe we even created Daesh. That was one of our greatest blunders, ranking right up there with Operation Ajax.

      Sometimes, I think they must perform lobotomies on all of our elected officials. They do the stupidest damned things!

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 28 2015, @07:09PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 28 2015, @07:09PM (#229124)

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Ajax [wikipedia.org]
        I reply, just to post the link. Read this...
        This, by far is the most sad thing regarding political development, that happened in middle east. A lot is just consequences.

      • (Score: 4, Insightful) by Phoenix666 on Friday August 28 2015, @07:53PM

        by Phoenix666 (552) on Friday August 28 2015, @07:53PM (#229149) Journal

        Due to the fact that so many Soylentils are more liberal than conservative

        I say it's time to retire those tired, threadbare labels. They are very deliberate constructs designed to manipulate and dis-empower (I hate that word, but there is no other). And, no, "libertarian" is not the new label for those who reject the false dichotomy of "liberal vs. conservative."

        For example, I 100% agree with your post, so does that make me a "conservative?" Because I don't identify that way--I could never identify with a group that openly and semi-openly embraces racism, lest I accept that my wife (Korean) and children are sub-human. I also don't identify as a "liberal," because I can't stand whiny free-loaders. Nor do I accept "libertarian," because objectivism is a flawed ideology that thrives with minds that were equally prone to swallow Marxism as articles of faith in an earlier time.

        How about we all be "critical thinkers" who eschew the easy, knee-jerk labels?

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        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 29 2015, @02:44AM

          by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 29 2015, @02:44AM (#229305)

          > I also don't identify as a "liberal," because I can't stand whiny free-loaders.

          Does that mean you are good with stoic free-loaders?
          Frankly the association between "liberal" and free-loading seems pretty arbitrary.

          • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 29 2015, @03:04PM

            by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 29 2015, @03:04PM (#229430)

            Ha. Yeah, that's his "critical thinking" being demonstrated. It is high time to do away with these disparaging labels and generalizations. Especially those fucking liberal free-loaders!