The main threads on Reddit were deleted also: https://www.reddit.com/r/undelete/comments/64jbfq/1458098779...
Many more: https://www.reddit.com/r/undelete/
Many more: https://www.reddit.com/r/undelete/
Do people even make a cursory effort to verify these accusations before repeating them?
Specifically against videos of police brutality / misconduct... which coincidentally came into effect around the time a police officer joined as moderator.
> 9. No Videos of Assault/Battery
> No videos of real-life, malicious person-on-person assault/battery or physical abuse of animals. This includes raw videos of fights and malicious violence.
No need to be smug, especially when you're probably wrong.
This all aside from the fact that I merely pointed out they were deleted, without judgment why. You should also be aware that there is almost always a "rule" in place to point to and serve as cover for tyrannical actions...Doesn't mean much in those cases. (Private company, blah blah, yeah we know. The point is many rules simply serve as cover for authorities to do whatever they want)
Media is indeed the fourth power.
How can we counteract this? They absolutely deserve the bad publicity they're (or would be) getting!
At least pretend, and say something like "this will not happen again".
Maybe, maybe not. We don't have all the facts yet. We still don't even know the identity of the victim - only hearsay from other passengers.
This type of viral emotional response makes me weary. I see it happen so often - Michael Brown, Ahmed Mohammed, TSA Cancer Girl, etc. The lynch mob gets bloodlust and calls for complete destruction of the alleged perpetrators (St. Louis Police, School Administration, TSA, etc). Later more facts come out and we empathize with the perpetrators a bit more, but it's too late - careers and such have already been ruined.
The idea that, in any situation that goes badly, exactly one actor must be at fault and all others blameless is distressingly common, but clearly wrong.
So remind me again why we are exclusively lynching United and not potentially other bad actors (passenger, security personnel)?
When I say "lynching" I don't mean it literally. I just mean groupthink mindless bashing. Just look at /r/videos over at reddit. It's just a poop-slinging contest at United. If you even mention that the security guards or passenger share part of the blame, you'll get downvoted to oblivion. Same thing happened before with Michael Brown and Ahmed Mohammed. If you went against the hate, you got burned. Right now it's "cool" to bash United so everyone is jumping on the bandwagon.
https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/wiki/rules#wiki_rule_4_-_no_...
[1] By which I mean I hate it.
1. Not fly United again until they offer an unconditional apology and compensate the passenger.
2. Sold off United stock as of this morning.
3. I am not trying to make this about Twitter for now. (Also I am way under water on my stock that I will lose too much if I sell them now)