Technology

59657 readers

3107 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

Follow the lemmy.world rules.
Only tech related content.
Be excellent to each another!
Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
Politics threads may be removed.
No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed

Approved Bots

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

1123

YouTube and Reddit are sued for allegedly enabling the racist mass shooting in Buffalo that left 10 dead (fortune.com)

submitted 1 year ago by Anonymau5@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

304 comments fedilink hide all child comments

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/3320637

YouTube and Reddit are sued for allegedly enabling the racist mass shooting in Buffalo that left 10 dead::The complementary lawsuits claim that the massacre in 2022 was made possible by tech giants, a local gun shop, and the gunman’s parents.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[+] FontMasterFlex@lemmy.world -9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It’s all just scapegoats for other systematic failures in culture, education, and social saftey nets, but those are hard to fix. Easier to just blame the platform and not make any real changes.

You mean like blaming guns?

[–] hardcoreufo@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not at all like blaming guns. A gun is a tool used to cause death. The other things are all being claimed as vectors to cause someone to use a gun to cause death. If someone didn't have easy access to a gun it would be much harder to go on a killing spree regardless of how radicalized they are.

[–] FontMasterFlex@lemmy.world -3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

sure, like renting a moving truck. or using box cutters to take over an airplane. regardless of how radicalized they are. keep drinking the kool aid.

[–] SCB@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You come at me with a box cutter and I'll defend myself with a rifle and let's see which one is more dangerous.

I'm fine with people renting box trucks and using knives in mass murder attempts, because statistically those attempts are far less successful than those with guns.

Shit one QAnon lunatic tried to ram a hospital ship with a train. Fuck em. Let em fail.