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insomniasexx  ·  4056 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Should you go to jail for posting video of a real murder?

I don't think the government should step in here either. It's gross and disgusting and exploitative and I hate it.

But that's life. People do shit we hate. But someone, somewhere making a overreaching law in response to this is much more dangerous.

Should his hosting company have a problem with him? Maybe. Should he lose ad dollars because of his content? Yes. Should the hosts he hosts his videos ban him? Sure. Should he be fearful of other individuals attacking him, online or in real life? Sure. That's life. You do something that in morally inexcusable you should look over your shoulder.

But should the government step in? I don't think so. Any law passed to prevent this shit will be used in a completely different way to fuck someone over in the future. The most valuable thing about the internet is it is free. It isn't regulated (too much / yet) and government is playing catch up. It's going to be a pity where we have 10k pages of laws on what we can and can't do online because of one-off situations.





Hell  ·  4056 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    Any law passed to prevent this shit will be used in a completely different way to fuck someone over in the future.
This is exactly it. If they may an exception in this case, they can push it even further in others.

I'm also wondering how he even has ads, I don't know many companies that would want to affiliate with that sort of content.

insomniasexx  ·  4056 days ago  ·  link  ·  

So I took one for the team and visited to site because I was really curious about the ads as well.

(1) webcam girls porn ads

(2) fetish porn (brutality/punishment 'tube') - talk about reaching your target audience.

(3) a chat roulette for sex site

There are 5 banners (4 side, 1 bottom) per page, same per every page. I clicked homepage, entry page, and second video. They each displayed the same set of ads in the same page for those 3 pages.

Surprisingly they have a deep comment section on each video with quite a bit of conversation and community. The users there seem to be calling each other out and know each other's 'tastes'.

And done. Gimme rainbows and kittens.

OftenBen  ·  4038 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Someone once said you know you have a free society when you routinely see things that you don't agree with but don't harm you.