Facebook Lets Beheading Clips Return To Its Site

another random user sends this quote from the BBC: "Facebook is allowing videos showing people being decapitated to be posted and shared on its site once again. The social network had placed a temporary ban on the material in May following complaints that the clips could cause long-term psychological damage. The U.S. firm now believes its users should be free to watch and condemn, but not celebrate, such videos. One suicide prevention charity criticized the move. 'It only takes seconds of exposure to such graphic material to leave a permanent trace — particularly in a young person's mind,' said Dr. Arthur Cassidy, a former psychologist who runs a branch of the Yellow Ribbon Program in Northern Ireland. 'The more graphic and colorful the material is, the more psychologically destructive it becomes.' Decapitation videos are available elsewhere on the net — including on Google's YouTube — but critics have raised concern that Facebook's news feeds and other sharing functions mean it is particularly adept at spreading such material."

Better That Than Tits

[rueger]

Does Facebook still ban breastfeeding pictures? Just wondering.....

Yup.

FB page Bitchin' Parents is the latest to be targeted by FB censors for sharing their members breastfeeding images. As a result they have been asking members to share their BF images here instead. Incredibly sad this is still an issue on FB. http://www.facebook.com/ParentsUncut [facebook.com]

Re:Why?

[AHuxley]

The posting is for war propaganda. You have the US backed freedom fighters showing what they do in liberated areas.
You have other groups showing what happens when the US backed freedom fighters take an area over and start cleaning up.
It also helps the sockpuppets offer a why the Anglosphere has to stay in parts of the world diatribe.
Basically a lot of CIA backed NGO's and freedom fighters offering both sides of their fav dirty wars.
Web 2.0 is seen as part of that effort. You also have the USA telco/NSA aspect - better to have it on a US friendly network :)

Re:Why?

[BenJeremy]

Except in this case, it is an Islamist who beheaded his wife for "cheating" on him. ...AND it managed to get 2500 likes on Facebook. Way to go , Facebook, that sure looks like condemnation.

I guess restricting beheading videos would be considered racist.

Meanwhile, posting pictures of a girl's head and elbows while she's in a bath, suggesting (only to the lame Facebook censors who have never seen an actual naked woman) boobies will get you banned.

Re:Why?

[Anonymous Coward]

I don't think I'd categorize the people executed by the cartels as innocents. If the bonds were on the other set of hands, they'd be just as happy to wield the knife.

Except for, you know, the journalists who are targetet, executed, and their corpses put on public display because they dared to report on these wastes of flesh.