Facebook lets beheading clips return to social network

[Resident]

Doesn't bother me, if you don't want to watch it don't click it.

Minimum age for FB is 13 if your letting your kids on there under that age and they see it then it's on the parents as far as I'm concerned.

It's on the parents till their 18, they're still classified as a child until that point.
It's about time we got out of this silly notion that as soon as a kid hits 13 we suddenly call them "young adults". It's becoming increasingly common that people expect external factors to parent their kids.

The other point about this is that these videos are available on other sites, sites where age-restricted login isn't required yet the media targets FB, which is. Probably has more to do with it's prominence in daily life but still it's a farce by the news outlets.

 

[pitchfork]

Considering there are many young children on Facebook, shouldn't they be at least making some sort of effort to screen this sort of content?

I think parents should be making more of an effort to not let their kids on facebook if they are worried.

Especially being that you need to be of a certain age and also, they should endeavour to let their children develop some social skills outside of the internet.

I don't believe we need a legal system, censorship or anything myself. I think society is self regulating if you let it be, karma is a bitch after all. Without the reliance on community and active democracy to maintain the status quo and ensure fairness you might as well be living on a desert island. If people are offended, they can target the producer or they can just shut their eyes and ignore it, as they often do with everyone else.

 

[Cosimo]

Ban the little kiddies that might see this stuff and maybe even ban their stupid parents at the same time for letting them be there.

 

[Glaucus]

The other thing they could do is put a setting in, to hide graphical content, that users can select of they don't want to see such stuff.

Theres plenty they could do without censoring.

 

[Antony101]

Don't see the problem, I've seen a few of the videos and it's nothing shocking.

If you are shocked and appalled by the videos you need to grow up, this stuff happens in the world and people need to know.

I agree there should be an age check though, wouldn't want people growing up to early.

 

[Derek W]

I await the daily mail headline of man beheaded after youths watch video on facebook

 

[beamer]

This. Facebook is a human powered search engine around random subjects. The nature of the linked content is also as much a function of the sort of people you "friend" on there.

Parents should ensure that kids only ever use the Internet under supervision, and when very young only through a white list of parent pre-approved sites.

Kids shouldn't be on Facebook at all.

The "walled garden" approach of AOL in it's early days was a sufficient and safe introduction to the Internet.

Those parents shouting loudest are often the sort that let their kids round around pubs listening in to the conversations of adults, with swearing, adult subjects etc... They need to do their parenting job better.

Meh. Not much of an issue, really. It's not like videos posted by people on your list are playing automatically. Don't like what you see from the description and the thumbnail, then don't click "play".

The children argument doesn't cut it either. There shouldn't be young children on Facebook -- at least not unmonitored. In this age parents need to be educating themselves and learning how to restrict the online consumption of their spawn. Facebook is such an open forum, with a system that allows anyone to quite literally step into the social sphere of a youngster, and parents shouldn't allow their children to be a part of that.

Mind you, if they're going to allow videos of graphic real life violence, I'd like my friends to be able to share more videos and pics of sexeh tittehs pls.

 

[postbox]

Don't see the problem, I've seen a few of the videos and it's nothing shocking.

If you are shocked and appalled by the videos you need to grow up, this stuff happens in the world and people need to know.

I agree there should be an age check though, wouldn't want people growing up to early.

Just because you are completely desensitised to what is possibly the most horrific act you can do to another human does not mean other people need to "grow up" People do know this happens, they also know that people and kids are raped, beaten up and tortured, doesn't mean they need to see the evidence. I'd be more concerned that you are emotionally detached (on the internet at least).

 

[platypus]

This. You have to be 13 to register on Facebook but I've seen plenty of parents creating accounts for their kids in years 1-3. Boggles the mind, especially when they're the first ones to be up in arms about what their kids are seeing online.

Young children using the Internet unmonitored is extremely irresponsible and bad parenting. Shameful, really.

Agreed.

 

[starfighter]

Just seen a video of 2 mexican guys being beheaded. :/

 

[pitchfork]

Just seen a video of 2 mexican guys being beheaded. :/

Out of 10?

 

[Antony101]

Just because you are completely desensitised to what is possibly the most horrific act you can do to another human does not mean other people need to "grow up" People do know this happens, they also know that people and kids are raped, beaten up and tortured, doesn't mean they need to see the evidence. I'd be more concerned that you are emotionally detached (on the internet at least).

I didn't at any point say I felt no emotion at all. I wasn't shocked by the video though, this stuff happens it's awful to think that someone had to go through that and likely knew from the moment they got in that position something terrible was going to happen.

There are too many people in the world that don't understand the terrible things some people are willing to do to others. That don't understand how easy it is for your life to be taken from you. Some people need to see these things to have their eyes opened.

I didn't enjoy watching the two I have seen. I also won't watch anymore, but I wasn't shocked or horrified by what happened.

 

[MrKeeno]

A 13 year old is stI'll a child, seeing a beheading video at that age could have a lasting effect. I foolishly watched one years ago and it stayed with me for ages, I was 30 at the time.

 

[estebanrey]

I'm not surprised, a "friend" shared a scatology video yesterday that had hundreds of thousands of views. I was shocked Facebook allowed such content.

Yet when I uploaded a video I'd made of football highlights it was taken down within 10 minutes due because it matched "third party content". You couldn't make it up.

 

[Ingenious TROLL]

Its disgusting and I for one hope they put a block on!

I was browsing my news feed last night and came across videos, without warning, in particular the 2 Mexicans being beheaded, and although I didn't watch it, I still saw the picture, ******g disgusting.

I know what happens in the world, but I don't want to see it. If people want to watch this crap there are websites they can go too, however when the vast majority wouldn't want to see stuff like this why should it be imposed on them and be able to show up on their news feed without any prior warning.

 

[TwsT]

ahh more reasons to stop using facebook.

tbh Facebook is pretty crap now. I don't get feeds from people i give a crap about it keeps trying to get me to reconnect with people i left behind 12 years ago.

and it keeps advertising pages to me because 1 person i know likes something i like so i obviously like everything they like.

 

[leaskovski]

Just seen a video of 2 mexican guys being beheaded. :/

¿Which hat is best?

 

[Draeger]

If people want to watch this crap there are websites they can go too, however when the vast majority wouldn't want to see stuff like this why should it be imposed on them and be able to show up on their news feed without any prior warning.

Absolutely this.

 

[postbox]

There are too many people in the world that don't understand the terrible things some people are willing to do to others. That don't understand how easy it is for your life to be taken from you. Some people need to see these things to have their eyes opened.

We are all guilty when it comes to being naive about something though (many wouldn't admit, or even know what it was though) Although I think many many people know in this instance about beheading (Lee Rigby) I see little use (educationally) it has apart from encouraging yet more videos to be shot in the long run.

 

[Bubo]

It absolutely boggles my mind that someone would choose to watch someone being murdered, no matter how old they were, to be quite frank. It is rubber necking taken to the ultimate extreme.