The (very) dark side of live streaming that no one seems able to stop
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2016/05/26/the-very-dark-side-of-live-streaming-that-no-one-seems-able-to-stop/
Zuckerberg doesn't seem to realize that, when it comes to
online video, "raw and visceral" -- from viscera, which
literally means guts (!) -- can be a very bad thing. In the
weeks since, a woman live-streamed her suicide, a teenager
broadcast her friend's rape, and a man narrated his standoff
with a Florida SWAT team. So it's safe to say that Zuckerberg
and other champions of the live-stream revolution are wising
up to what "rawness" actually means.
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A major concern is that unless services find ways to deal with these
issues themselves, governments will act in knee-jerk ways that will
likely be extremely damaging.
--Lauren--
Lauren Weinstein ([email protected]): http://www.vortex.com/lauren
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