My favourite is forgetting that someone died and then finding out and having to grumble about it all over again.

This seems to be a frequent occurrence for those who died during (but usually not from) COVID due to the time warp.

Wanker, n. CS Lewis

Ex: Shut up Lewis you massive wanker

I did this last night!

But I feel so guilty to my favourite 4-hour retrospective youtuber…

I think it gets a pass for directly referencing his horrifying record as a minister, politician, and human being, on almost every count.

In those cases broadcasters take one of two roads:

1. Don’t broadcast it - many extreme sports are simply not broadcast by many, many broadcasters.

2. Properly mitigate the risk to an acceptable level - this is done frequently for sports and other media. This is the reason you can watch Jackass and Dirty Sanchez even though the risk of death for many stunts is non-zero.

Once the death occurs though, they can only rely on their demonstration of #2 here to offset legal culpability. They are also then generally bound to remove the material and not re-air (in this case, Kick did make the content available again for whatever reason)

It seems like this is the road the defense will take in this particular case is to prove the death (illegal to air if preventable) was not caused by the preceding consensual torture (legal to air, seemingly).

Yes, that is the law. You are required not to broadcast death and to create circumstances in which the likelihood of this is minimised.

That’s not calling for censorship because it doesn’t preclude a level of consensual harm that doesn’t lead to high risk of death.

As I said earlier, your point stands: it is not for these platforms to act as moral compasses for viewers of consensual but provocative content.

However, that’s irrelevant to the law which wants to avoid incentivising people dying / being killed on broadcast streams for a profit.

I think this is ratified by the fact that there will be less of a burden of blame on the service provider if this proves not to be the case

They aren’t deciding, they’re being held to laws that they didn’t create nor necessarily agree with.

I’d assume that, given the option, they’d like this kind of thing to be legal so they can continue making money from it legitimately

Because they profited from his torture and subsequent death?

To your point though, they aren’t responsible in the moral sense that you’re implying. However, they committed a crime when they platformed, promoted and profited from it.

Depriving us of an excerpt would be quite rude at this point

Urgh, I don’t really have time to do this migration but guess I’m planning it in anyway.

Past me was a lazy bum. But I’m confident that future me is all over this. Time for a nap.

Gesundheit

"For England, James?”

Ok technically he doesn’t say it but I definitely hear it in my head

I was programmed to take credit for this

I also have this particular shitty superpower, but for the doorbell ringing

I can retop the pomatoes if I want too!

“This is cool and ow my hip!”

Anything that is low humidity. Sadly where I live is 50%+ most of the year

keep showing viewers the videos that we think they’ll love

We’ll keep profiling you and target you with videos that drive engagement, so largely things that inspire rage or conflict between you and others. Extra points if we drive your political and social views further to the right.

People mention his bluntness, even rudeness; his propensity for swearing; his intolerance of fools and stupid questions, and blistering responses thereto; his fondness for good beer, apparently in large amounts, and his consequent antipathy for early mornings; his passion for the things he cared about, which often could spill over into anger… and his subsequent regret and apologies. I’ve done much the same, and had similar written about me.

And he was from Lancaster!? Next you’ll tell me there’s water at the bottom of the ocean …

Is that the same thing sold as “frite sauce”? That stuff is the food of the gods