Kid fights
There has been outrage in some quarters recently about the posting of videos showing children fighting each other on sites such as You Tube. Police are saying that the web sites should monitor and remove such films, whilst the sites themselves say they rely on users to flag content to them. In amongst this fine piece of buck passing the point is somewhat lost. Regardless of whether these films are on the web or not, the fact remains that they are still being made. Surely the police would be better off trying to stop the kids fighting rather than simply trying to stop them posting videos of the fight. If Hitler hadn’t been captured on film it wouldn’t have prevented his attrocities from happening.
A spokesman for the Association of Chief Police Officers said of the web sites, “They are responsible for what is on their products - they are making a profit from this.” What a ridiculous statement! Would we hold the History Channel responsible for Bubonic Plague as they screened it? Did the BBC cause famine in Ethiopia simply by carrying coverage of it?
For as long as the police try to pass the blame to the web sites the problem will persist. I am not anti police, I think they do a good job that I certainly wouldn’t do however, in this instance they need to address the cause rather than the outlet.