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by erentz 2654 days ago
I agree. Reporting it would be an very odd expectation for such an event. We're not talking about a video of someone pooping or something. You are going to have:

1. Users who want to watch it. They won't report it.

2. Users who are in shock at watching a horrific event unfold and unable to mentally do anything.

3. Users who will be watching a crime happen, and will call the police.

Facebook by saying this are saying they expect the response to be:

"Oh, horrible mass murder crime is happening, I better just "flag" this video so I don't see it and it gets removed."

Heck. Flagging it for removal might even be evidence tampering in a funny kind of way. How do I know if it gets removed early some evidence of this crime isn't lost? I wouldn't want to make that decision.

Whoever wrote that at FB has drunk the "blame the users not the platform" cool aid a bit too much.