If you watch Isis’s videos you are complicit in its terrorism

Images of a Jordanian pilot being burned alive by the militants of Islamic State (Isis) began to filter on to social media and mainstream news sites on Monday. As with beheadings and other brutal acts carried out by the group in the past, there were calls not to share the video or stills of it, out of respect for the dead pilot and his family and in order not to further publicise the terrorists’ message. But it seems the details were so gruesome that many couldn’t help but watch and share.

I refused to look (I never do: it feels too much like giving Isis the attention it craves). But that didn’t stop others trying to tell me in vivid detail what the video showed. Someone even said it was “Bond villain-like”. Isis, it seems, has created a whole new kind of murderous cinematic experience.

Some internet users clearly find the unrelenting goriness of it all captivating – stonings, decapitations, throwing people off tall buildings, sticking severed heads on spikes. Perhaps there’s a compulsion to see just how far Isis will go. But the very act of choosing to witness these things makes us, in some way, complicit.

Media organisations face a particular dilemma, as the atrociousness arguably makes the crimes even more newsworthy. But any decision to transmit these images takes us into difficult territory. When Fox News posts all of the footage with the warning “extremely graphic video” attached, one could be forgiven for thinking that a steadfast commitment to truth-telling isn’t the only factor at play. But these videos are designed to be a grotesque form of clickbait. Making them available to ever-wider audiences only helps the terrorists achieve their traffic targets.

More: http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/feb/04/isis-videos-complict-terrorism-death-hostage-killers

twitter, all others and their accounts banned. ip banned. Let them start another account & do the same exact thing, ban the accounts.

Ban them from their ISP service also, there are not unlimited ISP services.

On top of that, hack into the device used to post the video, collect the info from the device-send back a virus that ruins the device used to connect to the social media site.

I think fox should be charged with aiding criminals by countries affected by IS terrorism.

This, from the side that claims have superior morality.

...and I'm sure this roused their TeaBag base to the point of wanting to torch the nearest mosque.

Never saw anything on Fox about the atrocities at Gitmo. ...Odd.

For those sweet, sweet ratings!

Increasingly, those who live in the US are asking why does Fox News, owned by a foreign source, allowed to express what news is available to American citizens. Where in the Constitution does it say that freedom of the press is run from foreign soil? I've about had enough of usurpers running our news!

I'm sure while they were showing it they were saying that it was all Obama's fault.

Doing exactly what ISIS would want them to do.

MANY burning deaths of black people, primarily men, in America in the past, usually with pre-burning torture and mutilation, that were, at the time, treated almost as 'carnival' affairs. People would often bring children along to see the 'spectacle', pose with the corpses, take souvenirs.

FOX News is trying to make sure that any modern Americans who get their kicks off of watching people being brutally murdered can still participate in the 'fun'.

But they don't show them of foreigners. Trying to start a ME war are they?

Fox is really GOP TV. Anything that stirs up xenophobia, fear and outrage, it is assumed, helps the GOP politically, thus it is added to what Fox broadcasts on its wurlitzer. Next will be the various GOP candidates or their surrogates trying to out-rambo the other while, at the same time, denigrating any democrat as "weak on terror," "secret muslim," "born in kenya," etc., either explicitly or by dog whistle. It's the same playbook they've used since their inception.

If it was a routine matter of having death sentences televised then it would be different. However we don't televise people being put to death. Forget whether it is supporting a particular para military's armed struggle or not.... It is as far as I'm concerned just a matter of human decency.

Censorship is one thing: I remember seeing news broadcasts where Gerry Adams, the leader of Sinn Fein, was on camera but his voice could not be broadcast due to British anti-terror legislation ... so his voice was dubbed by someone else. If an IS spokesperson was speaking with the media, then that's okay to show on US television. Or television anywhere in general.

But having a media organization hosting that kind of reprehensible material? This goes beyond the pale. It's on the Internet but had it actually aired on FNE then OMG foreign media regulators would be yanking licenses and demanding apologies - FNE is shown internationally.

Along with calling for Jordan to get more war like......and blaming Obama.

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Maybe this will finally wake-up some of their viewers as to how evil Fox News really is.

How could anyone think that posting it was a good idea?