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posted by LaminatorX on Wednesday August 20 2014, @08:40PM   Printer-friendly
from the if-it-bleeds-it-leads dept.

Asian Image reports that a campaign has been launched on Twitter urging people not to share a video purporting to show the murder of James Foley and thousands of ordinary users from around the world have backed the plan to deny IS publicity in horror at the horrific beheading footage, using the hashtag #ISISmediablackout. Twitter's chief executive Dick Costolo said the firm was taking action against accounts which spread the video. Still images from the video were removed from Twitter. Some individuals, including Al Jazeera America’s Wajahat Ali, said sharing the images of Foley’s apparent death on social media played into the militant group’s hands while others users suggested journalists “have a responsibility” to report murder.

The video of Foley’s purported killing was initially posted on YouTube, but taken down shortly afterward. Some criticized YouTube for not taking the video down quickly enough. "It's lucky that video didn't have a unlicensed Katy Perry song as a soundtrack or it would've been deleted from YouTube in seconds," wrote Tom Gara. A YouTube spokesperson would not say how long the video had remained posted on the site. The spokesperson said the company had "clear policies that prohibit content like gratuitous violence, hate speech and incitement to commit violent acts, and we remove videos violating these policies when flagged by our users".

 
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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 20 2014, @11:15PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 20 2014, @11:15PM (#83745)

    Would rather be forced to stare at lemon party for 24 hours than watch one frame of that video.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 21 2014, @02:26AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 21 2014, @02:26AM (#83799)

    What is a lemon party?
    Girl porn?

    So you haven't seen it. Maybe you could watch it up to the point where the muslim cuts the american's head off after giving a speech in english

    What I took away from this is that these people know they are losing and won't go down without a fight.

    Watch the video. When your kids ask "where were you when world war 3 started?" do remember this.

    • (Score: 2) by Magic Oddball on Thursday August 21 2014, @03:14AM

      by Magic Oddball (3847) on Thursday August 21 2014, @03:14AM (#83810) Journal

      Know Your Memes: Lemon Party [knowyourmeme.com]

      There's nothing of value in watching voyeuristic snuff videos, and your rationale makes for a pretty lame excuse, particularly as it makes no real sense to figure "world war three" would result. (For WW3 to take place, standoff would have to exist between the more powerful nations & superpowers -- not "most of the world" versus "a small psychotic third-world religious faction."

      I'm not having kids, and kids are unlikely to ask that particular question regardless. However, I see no reason why explaining to the kid that "I didn't look at the video, because [personal beliefs regarding the topic]" wouldn't suffice if the issue was raised for a school assignment or similar.

    • (Score: 2) by tathra on Thursday August 21 2014, @07:18PM

      by tathra (3367) on Thursday August 21 2014, @07:18PM (#84056)

      Maybe you could watch it up to the point where the extremist cuts the american's head off

      FTFY, though i already know its a waste of time trying to fight bigotry and xenophobia, especially from shills pushing agendas.