YouTube and Reddit are sued for allegedly enabling the racist mass shooting in Buffalo that left 10 dead::The complementary lawsuits claim that the massacre in 2022 was made possible by tech giants, a local gun shop, and the gunman’s parents.
Fantastic. I’ve been waiting to see these cases.
Start with a normal person, get them all jacked up on far right propaganda, then they go kill someone. If the website knows people are being radicalized into violent ideologies and does nothing to stop it, that’s a viable claim for wrongful death. It’s about foreseeability and causation, not about who did the shooting. Really a lot of people coming in on this thread who obviously have no legal experience.
Otkaz@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It use to be video games and movies taking the blame. Now it’s websites. When are we going to decide that people are just bat shit crazy and guns need some form of regulation?
SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Because every gun owner thinks they are “the good guys”
some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 1 year ago
Just wait till I use my gun to save a bunch of lives. Then you’ll see that I’m a hero. /s
ZombieZookeeper@lemmy.world 1 year ago
And most of them fantasize about killing liberals and BLM protesters.
DigitalWanderer@lemmy.world 1 year ago
but muh rights to go pew pew!
/s just in case not clear…
Noodle07@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Just go to school if you want pew pew
AngryAnusHornets@lemmy.world 1 year ago
lud@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Or fucking Cicso for daring to switch those evil packages.
ofk12@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I don’t know man, sounds a bit too much like sense to me.
Anonymousllama@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It’s not popular nowadays to mention that people need to have self accountability, there’s always apparently a website, service, game or social media platform to “blame” for the actions of the individual
Shapillon@lemmy.world 1 year ago
How is self accountability incompatible with systemic issues?
Marsupial@quokk.au 1 year ago
Exactly and sites that profit off of hosting extremist content that radicalises terrorists need to be held accountable for their actions.
aidan@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Guns have more legislation written about them than nearly any other product. They are heavily regulated. They are not effectively regulated however.
dhork@lemmy.world 1 year ago
This ineffectiveness is directly due to NRA lobbying, and their zero-tolerance attitude towards any new gun legislation. Any gun-friendly lawmaker who even gets close to writing gun control legislation will end up getting harassed (and likely primaried in the next election). So when gun control legislation passes, it’s inevitably written by people who don’t understand guns at all. No wonder it’s all shit!
Maybe now that the NRA is having financial difficulties legislators will have make leeway to enact things that might have a chance of working.
jampacked@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Why are video games immune to neuroplasticity?
SCB@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Neuroplasticity is not really relevant here - it’s just the ability of the brain to form new connections. You’d need a casual effect of video games/entertainment toward radicalization inherently and science does not support that position.
Even meta studies are not showing any causal link between gaming/entertainment and aggression
Redditiscancer789@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Anecdotally I play a genocidal maniac in every game I can. I love playing total war and killing every single thing I come across, razing pillaging their villages and enslaving the survivors. I’ve done it since I was a young child playing RTS games like age of empires. Adding up all my video game kills would probably in literally the billions. Can you guess how many people I’ve killed in real life?
5473MP4RRit@lemmy.world 1 year ago
What do you mean, “immune to neuroplasticity”?