https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/apr/17/facebook-live-murder-crime-policy
FACEBOOKS COMMENT:
“This is a horrific crime and we do not allow this kind of content on Facebook.”
The killing of Robert Godwin, a 74 year one grandfather living in Cleveland was filmed by the suspected attacker Steve Stephens and uploaded to Facebook. it wasn't taken down for two hours, but by then it had been copied, saved and reposted. It raises questions about how Facebook is able to regulate content. This hasn't been the first time, only last month the rape of a 15 year old girl in Chicago was streamed. Last year facebook was used by Korean Gaines to broadcast a standoff with police in Baltimore. There have also been videos of torture, police chases, abuse and murder.
'Social media removes the gatekeepers between performance and distribution,” said Raymond Surette' I think that Facebook needs to begin to take regulation their site more seriously. It isn't easy to find a livestream that contains criminal content and stop it then and their but within two hours, something that would have been most likely been reported a number of times should have been removed. The lack of control and editing means that people can actually share their beliefs regardless of whether their offensive or not;
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