On Wed, Jan 25, 2017, at 10:39 AM, Rich Kulawiec wrote: > Here's what Facebook Live did this week: > > Facebook Live 'broadcasts gang rape' of woman in Sweden > http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-38717186 > Read the whole article, all the way to the end.
I did, and saw this "Facebook Live also caught the aftermath of an incident in which a police officer shot and killed a man in St Paul, Minnesota in July 2016." and then read this "Officer Who Shot Philando Castile Is Charged With Manslaughter" https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/17/us/philando-castile-shooting-minnesota.html?_r=0 The likelihood that would have happened without the pressure that happened due to Facebook Live is quite low. > Now explain to me why you think it's a good idea to do anything > other than firewall their network ranges permanently. If good people don't actively work to find empowering uses of indifferent technology, then only the a-holes will have all the shiny toys. Also live video streaming from personal mobile phones over the Internet is not going anywhere, whether on Facebook or not. I suppose you could just block all UDP packets on known streaming protocol ports, and do DPI for HLS over HTTP, but that would start to get out of control a bit, don't you think? +n -- Nathan of Guardian nat...@guardianproject.info -- Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu.
