Submitted 10 months ago by L4s@lemmy.world [bot] to technology@lemmy.world
Coroner calls on Google and Amazon to act after British woman’s suicide::Chloe Macdermott researched suicide methods on a forum and bought lethal substance online from US
She died as a martyr so we can have even more of that universal mass survelliance.
Feels like such a reach. I have no love for Amazon but what are they supposed to do here? Ask you at check out “Are you trying to commit suicide with these items?” Typing is most keywords for suicide and Google pops up with suicide prevention info on top screen already. People who want to do something will find a way.
It was probably sodium nitrite. There’s been an increasing number of people using it to exit as it’s used in meat seasoning. In the UK you can only buy quite low concentration bulk packets.
The UK would try to ban nitrogen because it can be used to commit suicide. No more Guinness at the pub I guess.
No more balloons for your party either!
Early last year I was almost able to buy it in high concentration from apc pure, but did not have a good lie lined up when they asked me why I was purchasing it. Seems like it’s no longer available, but I bet it can be got with some effort.
I hope you’re doing okay now.
I’m guessing that guy never heard about the Streisand Effect and the expression “if it bleeds, it leads”
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Google and Amazon must act after a British woman made a suicide pact with two people she met online and bought the poison that killed her on the internet, a coroner has said.
Chloe Macdermott, 43, died on 23 May 2021 after buying a lethal substance from the US on Amazon.
She had been struggling with her mental health for several years before she began researching ways to end her life on an online forum, an inquest at inner west London coroner’s court was told this month.
The coroner Paul Rogers recorded a conclusion of suicide and issued a prevention of future deaths report to Google and Amazon, saying he believes they have the power to prevent another similar tragedy.
Posts are made by users containing details of methods of suicide without any effective administration to remove such harmful content.”
The availability of the poison online and the ability of Britons to have it delivered from the US “without effective border and/or custom controls” was also a matter of concern, Rogers said.
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Grow the fuck up. What idiot coroner thinks that an individuals personal decision to end their life is literally anyone elses fucking responsibility?
Should have their license pulled for being this much of a fucking idiot.
Wrench@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Yes. Let’s burn all the books too in case someone does something bad with that knowledge. And ban everything but soft pillows from being sold in any store.
What a stupid fucking coroner.