Incidentally, yesterday's event(s) are why I ALWAYS switch off video autoplay in all browsers and social media apps and refuse to use TikTok or other video media platforms.
I do not need to see that kind of shit, and you should think twice before sharing it with strangers without a content warning.
@cstross Why? Sensibilties hurt? What I saw was State's sanctionned execution! And it needs to be shown to wake peoples the FUCK Up to how fucked Up your country is right now!
@cstross I am Israeli. I am traumatised enough from what I experience and from what I know so I don't need to be more traumatised from what I see.
@cstross
Were your sensibilities hurt? Just imagine how it will feel when YOU or a loved one are their target.
@cstross
Yes, I have seen plenty in my lifetime but even I get triggered by videos and images (heck I CANNOT listen to the 47th and his cronies without triggering violent rage in my mind 😹)
It is a very good idea to give a heads up about this sort of thing. I made it a habit to do so after I realized how I reacted to this stuff. We all need to continue recording and sharing so it doesn’t “disappear” but we have to TAKE CARE OF EACH OTHER TOO❣️❣️❣️🩷🩷🩷
Bless y’all out there 🩷
@cstross I have also enabled "Always hide media" and unchecked "Auto-play animated GIFs" for precisely that reason. I don't need to have that stuff shoved in my face - which incidentally are mainly posts that also don't have a CW, nor proper hashtags so I cannot add a filter for it.
@cstross In the rare instances I do choose to share extremely disturbing things, I don't even solely rely on CWs since many people - myself included - auto expand them. I'll make the URL unclickable so someone has to copy paste it if they want to see it. Surround it with backticks if your software supports markdown. Put a space in the URL. Something so only those who actually choose to see things that may haunt dreams see it.
@cstross I seriously wonder when it became “okay” to share snuff.
i don't watch these videos either & i agree that they should have CW... but it becomes OK to share this content when the US media & gov't is telling lies about the victim's actions
for US historical context, (which no one in this thread appears to recall?) Emmett Till's mother would not allow a closed casket because she wanted the world to see the horror so it could not be forgotten-- it was the only way she could get any justice for the crime against her child
@peachfront @schrotthaufen There is a DIFFERENCE between sharing information that contradicts the government narrative and RAMMING IT INTO EVERYONE'S EYEBALLS WITHOUT WARNING.
If you don't get that, I don't know how to get through to you: your expectations of your media environment are toxic and destructive and you have no problem with inflicting the damage on random strangers.
no i get it, i absolutely agree... i was responding to the person who appeared to believe the material should not be shared at all (the reference to snuff & legality bothered me)
i have people i trust who are willing to view & describe the material since i am too anxious to view it myself
@schrotthaufen @cstross I wouldn't call it snuff? It's not made and shared for (a weird form) of entertainment.
@mysteriarch @schrotthaufen Intent doesn't matter: it's how it's received.
@cstross I'm sorry, but people need to see and be horrified by it. The Vietnam war ended because in part of the images broadcast on TV. The Afghan war dragged on because it was sanitized. Instead of complaining that you had to see it, maybe urge your representatives to defund and dismatle ICE.
@farbel I'm not a fucking American, I don't get a vote in this shit, I DO NOT NEED IT IN MY EYEBALLS. Go away until you've learned to read for context.
It is not okay to share your snuff videos with the whole world without a content warning. You are hurting people. Period.
Exactly
"People need to see this shit"
Okay. I agree. *Someone* needs to see this so things cannot get swept under the carpet.
"EVERYONE needs to see this shit"
No. People who are easily traumatised by such things do not need to have them forced down their throats.
"People" v "EVERYONE". A very important distinction.
@cstross I'm angry too.
@cstross I think we are all feeling acutely psychically wounded by yesterday.
And in a way, that's a good thing. But let us not give each other callouses. Something I realise I am guilty of doing.
@Remittancegirl I think the people who don't realize they're being damaged by this saturation coverage of atrocities are the ones receiving the most long-term harm.
I think the people who are getting murdered in the footage, are receiving significantly more harm.
