video doing the rounds on Facebook

[cheesyboy]

Young lad at a Cheltenham school killed himself a month or two ago. Found hanging in the park by other schoolkids, who couldn't reach him to get him down - died a day or two later.

Soon, a Facebook video emerged of him being punched to the ground by a group of other school kids. Made the national press, papers start trying to find out names of the kids involved etc.

Turns out the video was staged by him and his friends. Fortunately, there hadn't been any vigilante action taken against them - must have been somewhat distressing for the people involved, though, especially considering the recent death of their friend.

Take it all with a pince of salt, these videos, and be wary of how much glee you take in unregulated "comeuppance"

 

[elmarko]

Anyone with half a brain knows this and doesn't need it pointed out. (The potential problems with videos being edited to be deliberately being one sided)

Anyone who has seen the videos and has half a brain would realise it doesn't apply to either of the videos in question.

But thank you for you concerns good citizen. Your points are noted. No matter how irrelevant they are to this discussion.

Just incase you weren't aware the video regarding the girl bullying assaulting and robbing the two 13 year olds was uploaded by a friend of the perpetrator.

Clearly not that obvious if you failed to comprehend my point.

The specifics of a case doesn't really prove or disprove my point, while you may indeed find it obvious that's not really that key here is it, I mean you felt the need to point out that robbers & people who assault old men are scum-bags (something which is glaringly obvious & also didn't need pointing out).

Unless you have something to say about what I actually said (instead of making wild & unfounded assertions based off your own inability to read) I'm done wasting my time speaking to you on this.

Young lad at a Cheltenham school killed himself a month or two ago. Found hanging in the park by other schoolkids, who couldn't reach him to get him down - died a day or two later.

Soon, a Facebook video emerged of him being punched to the ground by a group of other school kids. Made the national press, papers start trying to find out names of the kids involved etc.

Turns out the video was staged by him and his friends. Fortunately, there hadn't been any vigilante action taken against them - must have been somewhat distressing for the people involved, though, especially considering the recent death of their friend.

Take it all with a pince of salt, these videos, and be wary of how much glee you take in unregulated "comeuppance"

Indeed,

Which was my point earlier, generally the film should be sent to the police & out of the public if a crime has been committed (unless the police themselves wish to identify individuals). Besides - 'car crash style' sharing of another human being victimised or assaulted only adds to the humiliation of the victim.

 

[Washout]

Does wind me up when you get those videos purporting to show x when in fact it was of something else entirely. Usually to support some social/political/religious belief or another.
Most annoying part is seeing the hundreds of gullible people venting their hatred on whichever innocent group was made out to be the perpetrators in the video.

Cheap propaganda I guess. Think media outlets or the sites hosting them should do more to debunk them.

 

[balky12]

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I don't fail to comprehend your point at all. I am merely stating that your generalisations of uploaded videos do not apply here. Both videos in question have brought police charges and one has returned a guilty verdict with one awaiting the outcome.

These videos depict exactly what you see. Bullies. Criminal acts.

You may have an opinion on whether it's right or wrong re uploading videos to social media and creating a public trial, and I respect that, but when was the last time you heard of a bully being arrested and charged within days? Seems in this instance (what this thread was talking about), that social media has helped, immensely.

We seem to disagree somehow. I'm not entirely sure why, but my guess is our stubbornness to back down. But your comments do not apply here. Jumping to conclusions over videos can be bad, but in these two cases what you see is the entire story.

Have you even seen either video? Seeing as my comments are wild and unfounded.

 

[ethan]

I rightly or wrongly felt uncomfortable with this video and reported it along with another showing some teenage girl seemingly attacking another and slicing her repeatedly across the face with a pair of scissors. I assumed Facebook would have removed them in line with their supposed stance towards depiction of graphic violence. I thought wrong. Facebook response was just to block or unfriendly the persons doing the posting? I'm quite surprised or naive about this as I couldn't imagine either of these videos making it to the News at nine?

 

[Duke]

..depicting some teenage girls beating a pensioner up and leaving her screaming on the floor. I had to misfortune to see this video and must confess I never want to see another video like it again.

Wow, I'd advise you don't go on ******** then.

 

[ethan]

Wow, I'd advise you don't go on ******** then.

It's not that I am not used to the sight of violence that was the issue. It was the perception that the pensioner screaming on the floor could easily have been a relative of mine (or obviously somebody else) and not a stranger.