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4chan User Attempts Suicide on Live Cam as Hundreds Watch and Do Nothing

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And when you stare into 4chan long enough, the 4chan also stares into you...

Anybody remember Gulf I?

The live streams from the bombings, almost like a video game.

Those were people too.

I was a bit young for Gulf I, but I definitely remember the very uneasy feeling of watching 'Shock and Awe' in 2003.

The world had a live-feed to the destruction of a city;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NktsxucDvNI

1,700 air sorties and over 500 cruise missiles impacting and broadcast live to your living room. I wonder what the death toll from that night was.. 10,000? More?

Significantly less -- even the highest estimates on the invasion phase (not just the shock and awe portion) where at 5600, and of course, the US government claims an order of magnitude less than the 5600 number.

Shock and Awe was about display of power and infrastructure destruction... now how many died due to lack of power, water, and various types of infrastructure is an open question, and those deaths probably went on long after the "invasion phrase"

This is a golden opportunity to see cultural differences in the Western World. I remember distinctly that, at the height of the first Gulf War, a large communal childrens party that I (then a child) wanted to go to was cancelled, because it would be inappropriate to have a party while so many people are dying in the war.

Mind you, this was in Germany, which was involved only quite indirectly, with no troops participating in the fighting.

    Significantly less -- even the highest estimates on
    the invasion phase (not just the shock and awe portion)
    where at 5600

Not according to anything I've read.

Franks reportedly estimated soon after the invasion that there had been 30,000 Iraqi casualties as of April 9, 2003.

"Our analysis of the evidence leads to the conclusion that between 10,800 and 15,100 Iraqis were killed in the war. Of these, between 3,200 and 4,300 were noncombatants – that is: civilians who did not take up arms."

The study author Carl Conetta reported: "All told, more than 40,000 Iraqis were killed or injured,"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_Iraq_War#Iraq...

You seem to not understand the context I was replying too, nor what I said.

> 1,700 air sorties and over 500 cruise missiles impacting and broadcast live to your living room. I wonder what the death toll from that night was.. 10,000? More?

This was the initial comment I was replying to, about the shock and awe campaign (read: Rapid Dominance). Since finding numbers for JUST the shock and awe is virtually impossible (since it was only about 48 hours), I expanded the time period to the entire "invasion phase", which was the initial military incursion period, not the entirety of the war. The "invasion phase" ends when you got your troops in country and footholds established.

This was all to correct that idea that 10,000 or more people died in two days (March 19th - March 21st, 2003). Even according the IBC (the most inflated numbers I could find) the end of shock and awe period numbers where at a maximum 1,174

April 2003 Min: 996 Max: 1,174 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_Body_Count

If there was a "war prevention hotline", I would've called it.

>John is an unfortunate Liberal soul who lives uncomfortably in the middle of a Conservative hellscape. While he is not a fan of politicians, period, he has developed a deep-seated hatred for the bigotry, fear mongering, and lies of the Right Wing. He also rather enjoys steak.

Uh-huh. Also posting a Youtube link of it for all the heathens to take a look at.

I mean what could they really do?

This isn't the first time it has happened. I don't have the link, but a teen streamed a completed a suicide a while back while hundreds watched. There was a question if some of the onlookers knew he was serious/it was real.

This isn't new. It's been happening for years now on 4Chan. Moderators (called Janitors) _should_ have deleted the thread and alerted authorities as they usually do. I wonder how the thread managed to stay alive for so long.

It's possible they just didn't see it. Maybe none of them were online at the time it happened.

Because the janitors are absolute garbage. I see more illegal shit on the "worksafe" boards stick around for hours and days on end without going answered by any 4chan staff or volunteers.

Hasn't this happened in the past? I recall viewing a successful attempt sometime back in 2006.

What can someone actually do in this type of situation?

I do I agree that it's disgusting that people were watching tho.

/b/ is literally the worst board on 4chan, I don't know why moot hasn't deleted that board.

It's a containment board, it keeps the shitposters from spilling into other better boards. Same reason /s4s/ is still there - it's the board where people go to shitpost so that the other boards don't have to be filled with it.

>Same reason /s4s/ is still there - it's the board where people go to shitpost so that the other boards don't have to be filled with it.

No, no, no. 4chan is still full of shitposting, and /s4s/'s own shitposting has steadily been leaking into other boards. Moot has no idea how to manage and build a community. His answer to troublemakers (spammers, shitposters, idiots) is to give them their own place, hoping they'll just stay there and leave everyone else alone. The racists, the misogynists, the ponyfuckers, you name it. Then when they have established a presence (thanks in no small part to his retarded policy) and people still complain about them, he says now he can't get rid of their board, or they'd spill out into the others. This kind of approach is, at best, horribly naive, and at worst, downright stupid. The site has been hemorrhaging quality posters for years and creating abominations like /s4s/ won't help to reverse the trend.

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