Crimes happen in a daily basis and can rage from anything a shoplifting to homicides. We mainly hear about these incidents throughout the media, whether it be through News stations as CNN, NBC, etc. or reading it online such as Facebook, Yahoo news, and many more platforms. When people here about these crimes, they get a basic overview of what happened, how many people got hurt, and other stuff as well as showing us the place where the incident occurred. This censored version can be viewed by anyone of different ages cause there is nothing disturbing to the users, but that has changed in recent years as more and more crimes are being streamed suing Facebook Live. Facebook introduced Facebook Live as giving users the ability to live stream themselves or show they were they are. Facebooks mainly did this, in my opinion, as a way of competing against other social media platforms that already have that, such as YouTube, Twitter, etc. During the time, Facebook didn’t think that these new tool created to connect the world could be used to live stream the deaths of people. When streaming through Facebook, there is no censorship at all and users have the option to make their stream public or not, so anyone is able to view the videos. This has come with a dire consequence as people have been able to stream graphical content that anyone is able to view over and over again. These videos also start trending and get even more popularity through Facebook itself. There have been several graphical murders that occurred with the most recent being the death of an elderly African American in Minnesota as the killer live streamed the whole event. There were even points in which he would stream the body of the elderly man, especially his face, as it was were the killer shot him at. With advances in technology, we always see the benefits that it tends to cause, but we sometimes don’t know what the consequences may be. Personally, I think this is a great example because it is a technology that is already out in the public that was created for a purpose, but is used for another thing. It is also a challenge to fix as well cause it is already being used by millions of people and this technology doesn’t have any type of censoring available. Even after reading the article, it talks about how Facebook is always is already having teams created to monitor what is being streamed as well as creating algorithms that will prevent graphical videos from trending across the internet. Facebook still has a lot of work ahead of itself in order to make sure that something like this or different happens in the future. http://www.reuters.com/article/us-minnesota-police-facebook-idUSKCN0ZN2MN
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Ian Kindall
5/8/2017 09:55:46 pm
Just playing devils advocate but are you saying that we should allow content to be censored entirely or to better regulate who views said content?
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Sean O'Fallon
5/9/2017 09:31:23 am
I think if there was a team of people dedicated to policing the streams, a lot of this problem would go away. The people live streaming murder or other things that are certainly against what Facebook wants on their platform want attention. If there was a way to tell these stream monitors about it and have them cut the video for that user, I think these problems could start to fade away.
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Noemi Cuin
5/11/2017 12:23:40 am
hi jose,
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Stephen Negron
5/11/2017 07:12:15 pm
Hello Jose,
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Angela Bomarito
5/11/2017 09:48:22 pm
Hi Jose, it's funny because I was just thinking about this earlier today when I was watching a YouTube livestream. I was wondering if there was any way to detect graphical or inappropriate behavior so that it would not be allowed to be exposed to anyone anywhere. If there's not, there definitely should be. While it's a nice way for people to share their current experience with their friends, I think there needs to be some kind of censorship on it in order to avoid situations like the murder you mentioned.
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Fernando Madrigal
5/13/2017 02:20:57 pm
Hello Jose,
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Mariel Calande
5/13/2017 03:23:59 pm
I think that Facebook should have done more research and development before introducing Facebook Live. Ideally, Facebook Live's team or algorithm could shut down streams that are inappropriate and illegal. It's just incredibly sad that people get away with using Facebook Live to show incredibly disturbing things to a wide audience. I think that snuff films and suicide attempts being streamed live is different than an unpopular opinion, and Facebook Live would and should know the difference.
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Darren Chan
5/13/2017 07:53:18 pm
Facebook isn't the only social media that does this. Instagram does this and for me, I don't use it. Yes it is nice, but there is always those people watching that might be up to no good. It is almost as if you are telling the world "I am not at home and I am out having fun with my friends" And when you get home, you may have just been robbed.
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Joseph Molina
5/17/2017 07:04:38 pm
Jose,
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