Livestreamed massacre means it’s time to shut down Facebook Live

The service is not to blame for the bad actions of one user. Humanity is so broad and diverse that in any sufficiently large set of people there are individuals who will choose to commit evil. It's society's problem to discourage this, and to react and recover from the evil having been done.

Terms of service were violated, the videos were removed, the service is not at fault here. If it wasn't posted on FBL, it would have been somewhere else instead. The fact that our technology gives us a clearer look at something that's been part of the human condition forever is not a reasonable argument for destroying that technology.

Personally, I think livestreaming is pretty dumb and I never create or consume it, but different strokes and such.

Okay now let's stop with the sarcasm. Blocking videos is acceptable, they can be watched many times over and shared even after the live stream has ended. Blocking live streams doesn't do any of that. A live stream is shown once and then it is effectively "deleted", regardless of whether workers filter it or not.

Why punish millions of innocent people for such a tiny minority? This isn't a video that has been shared million of times. Even the recording has only been seen 4000 times.

If we must endure screened, delayed communication, nonfree (as in freedom) then the terrorists win.

Same problem with content-moderation, but on the other hand it means the video is out there before the police force has time to confiscate the device or even lock-down their account.