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Musk given 24 hours to address graphic images of Hamas attacks
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Umm... why? Why are they censoring the truth?
This is how people don't take war seriously. All they do is hear about it, but don't see the gruesome reality.
Oh, that must be really embarrassing, but...
Maybe work on your reading comprehension to make sure you don't embarrass yourself like that again.
What are you talking about?
I'm specifically referring to the videos and images.
Oh the ironing.
Child sex abuse is a reality we have to confront head-on, but we don't share images of it for awareness.
Likewise, you shouldn't be sharing images of the slaughtered bodies of civilians to draw awareness to terrorism.
Woah, child sex abuse isn't the same as war though. People already take it plenty seriously and nobody is glorifying it (out in the open.)
Your analogy isn't a 1:1 representation of the topic at hand. All it does is pivot from the actual topic to something that's easier for you to argue against.
I never said it was the same, it's called a comparison. We ban images of sex abuse because of the harm sharing those images does to victims. Hamas has gone through a lot of effort to film and disseminate what they did in Israel online, and they are doing so with the intent of doing harm to the victims' families. While there may not be laws in the USA prohibiting the sharing of this content, I would still argue that it is morally reprehensible given that you are participating in something intended to do harm.
What it's 'intended' to do doesn't really matter. If you notice, people aren't supporting Hamas. They see these videos and they're rallying behind them in support for Israel.
Wow. It's almost like, exactly how I said, showing people instead of telling them causes them to take war seriously.
Traumatizing ≠ making people take war seriously.
Believe it or not, journalism and educating people is much more than uploading graphically disturbing images to some website and leave it as is.
That's actually not true, and most people who watch these videos aren't 'traumatized', so it's not really an argument.
Who said it isn't? They should include the footage with their articles. This way people can see instead of just being told.
If they don't want to look, then there should be explicit content warnings.
There have been plenty of studies about gore and death content that suggest they cause trauma similar to PTSD. Some people are affected more than others. On X you're pretty likely to be presented with some extremely violent images right now if you go looking for information about what is happening, so you can't really avoid it other than to avoid X entirely. Plenty of these images and videos aren't even related to this conflict, and are just misinformation / ragebait.
Can you show me what studies you're talking about?
I have a feeling you're referring specifically to studies that focus on people who are paid to moderate this content. If you share what studies you're talking about we can know for sure.
You really don't need to look further than the clinical data on PTSD. A sufficient amount of any form of trauma can cause mental health issues including but not limited to PTSD. Watching an execution video has a large potential to cause a severe trauma response, especially if the victims are people you know or love, or are members of your community.
Plenty of real world examples of content moderation teams at social media companies suffering from their exposure to extreme content.
Traumatizing people is one of the core goals of terrorism, because it does damage.
Thanks for not linking to a single study like I asked.
Sorry, but I won't take you seriously until you do. You mentioned 'studies.' Show us them.
I've seen studies that disprove your studies.