New Zealand shooting: Teen could face 14 years for 'sharing attack live-stream'

[jcmaine72]

My undying sympathies are with the people of NZ, but this is not the answer. This kind of overreach at a time like this will just serve to lower national morale more at a time when people need healing. Warnings, yes. Threats, okay. Fines, sure. However, arresting a teenager for sharing a video? I guess you could argue that it's morally tantamount to sharing child porn, but I dunno.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/new-zealand-shooting-teen-could-14152049

Note: I'll admit to getting British news sources confused and generally not knowing what side of the political spectrum they're on, so if this is considered a "questionable source", please accept my sincerest apologies and let me know. However, the story seems genuine. This young man was arrested for the stated charge.

Here's another source for the story:

https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/australianz/christchurch-teenager-charged-with-distributing-mosque-rampage-livestream

Never heard of the "Straits Times", but, hopefully, they're friendly straits.

[redstatebluegirl]

1. Personally I think anyone who wants to share or even watch this horrible thing need to see

a therapist.

[jcmaine72]

2. Agreed! But prison?

[Codeine]

3. I see no need for anyone to view such a thing

but criminalizing it doesn’t sit any better with me.

[jcmaine72]

4. I made the mistake many years ago of watching the Nick Berg beheading video.

A friend of mine laid this big trip on me about how everyone had a "moral obligation" to see the video and learn exactly what kind of people we're fighting against and blah, blah, blah. Mind you, this wasn't too many years after 9/11, so I really didn't need a refresher course. However, like the idiot I am, and also to get this person off my back, I watched it. It was....indescribable. I can still sometimes hear that poor man's screams when I close my eyes just before falling asleep. It was the most monstrous thing I had ever seen before or since.

After that, I swore to myself to never, ever watch another such video as long as I live. I don't need to see videos of innocent people being brutally slaughtered to know there are horrible, evil people in this world who are hellbent on committing horrible, evil acts. Whatever it is that compels people to consume such dross, whether it's morbid curiosity or genuine sadism, I consider myself lucky not to posses it.