{"id":394823,"date":"2019-02-01T06:50:06","date_gmt":"2019-02-01T05:50:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/instagram-helped-kill-my-daughter-censorship-tendencies-in-social-media\/"},"modified":"2019-02-01T06:50:06","modified_gmt":"2019-02-01T05:50:06","slug":"instagram-helped-kill-my-daughter-censorship-tendencies-in-social-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/instagram-helped-kill-my-daughter-censorship-tendencies-in-social-media\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cInstagram Helped Kill My Daughter\u201d: Censorship Tendencies in Social Media"},"content":{"rendered":"
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It is all a rather sorry tale.\u00a0 Molly Russell, another teenager gorged on social media content, sharing and darkly revelling, took her own life in 2017 supposedly after viewing what the BBC described as \u201cdisturbing content about suicide on social media.\u201d\u00a0 Causation is presumed, and the platform hosting the content is saddled with blame.<\/p>\n

Molly\u2019s father was not so much seeking answers as attributing<\/a> culpability.\u00a0 Instagram, claimed Ian Russell, \u201chelped kill my daughter\u201d.\u00a0 He was also spoiling to challenge other platforms: \u201cPininterest has a huge amount to answer for.\u201d\u00a0 These platforms do, but not in quite the same way suggested by the aggrieved father.<\/p>\n

The political classes were also quick to jump the gun.\u00a0 Here was a chance to score a few moral points as a distraction from the messiness of Brexit negotiations.\u00a0 UK Health Secretary Matt Hancock was in combative mood on the Andrew Marr show: \u201cIf we think they need to do things they are refusing to do, then we can and we must legislate.\u201d\u00a0 Material dealing with self-harm and suicide would have to be purged.\u00a0 As has become popular in this instance, the purging element would have to come from technology platforms themselves, helped along by the kindly legislators.<\/p>\n

Any time the censor steps in as defender of morality, safety and whatever tawdry assertions of social control, citizens should be alarmed.\u00a0 Such attitudes are precisely the sorts of things that empty libraries and lead to the…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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It is all a rather sorry tale.\u00a0 Molly Russell, another teenager gorged on social media content, sharing and darkly revelling, took her own life in 2017 supposedly after viewing what the BBC described as \u201cdisturbing content about suicide on social media.\u201d\u00a0 Causation is presumed, and the platform hosting the content is saddled with blame. Molly\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2525,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-394823","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2525"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394823\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}