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Hey Platforms: Your Violent Content Policies Are About To Meet The Pentagon’s Firing Squad There is plenty of coverage everywhere you look about how Pete Hegseth and... https://www.techdirt.com/2026/10/09/hey-platforms-your-violent-content-policies-are-about-to-meet-the-pentagons-firing-squad/

techdirt.comHey Platforms: Your Violent Content Policies Are About To Meet The Pentagon’s Firing SquadThere is plenty of coverage everywhere you look about how Pete Hegseth and the Pentagon have announced plans to livestream the firing squad execution of Nidal Hasan, the Army officer who shot up Fort Hood, killing 13 people and wounding dozens more. There is plenty of debate about the moral atrocity that is a firing...

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Aleutian Stares
@guasha.bsky.social

This 👇👇👇👇 "...hosting the livestream would violate the platforms’ own rules — and whether they’ll simply ignore (or rewrite) those rules to do it anyway. While it’s probably perfectly legal in the US to stream the execution, it still might violate the various platform rules... more

Aleutian Stares
@guasha.bsky.social

that most sites have set up for themselves. (Hosting it globally may also create legal headaches in countries with stricter rules on violent, extremist, and terrorist content, but that’s a separate question.)"

Jen-of-Λrc
@jen-of-arc.bsky.social

It absolutely violates Community Guidelines on most platforms. Will these platforms cave? Or… will they either suspend the government accounts or disable their streaming capabilities?

Jen-of-Λrc@jen-of-arc.bsky.social

It violates YouTube’s rules. “ If a channel 𝒔𝒖𝒈𝒈𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒔 it will livestream or upload content that violates these Community Guidelines, YouTube can…remove it or disable live streaming for the account.” ➡️ YouTube should immediately DISABLE streaming on the White House, Defense & Justice Department accts