TMI and the Internet

fureverywhere

fureverywhere

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I guess it's about freedom of information and who knows what else. But I dunno...shouldn't some things be barred from the internet somehow? In the book " Helter Skelter" about the Manson murders there was a photo section of the crime scenes. The bodies were whited out to shapes in the photos. The internet has the original images.

Similarly while I was looking up Gus Grissom's widow. There is an image of his remains or his space suit remains or possibly both mixed together. If I was family of these people I would be demanding someone, anyone...respect for the dead and survivors?

I guess people have the freedom not to look. But I just don't feel the pics should be out there.
 

But who will be the censor? What set of rules could possibly outline what is and isn't allowable?

The whole idea of the Internet is freedom of information, for all. Anything restricting it would start to erode that idea.

I fought to have this picture of me removed from the 'Net, but it was a losing battle.

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we sure do have the freedom to "not look" however.... what about when we put all our parental controls in place for our children, and they go off to a friends home who say does not have those "controls" in place. There it is then, in our children's faces.
 
fishfulthinking said:
we sure do have the freedom to "not look" however.... what about when we put all our parental controls in place for our children, and they go off to a friends home who say does not have those "controls" in place. There it is then, in our children's faces.
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As much as we'd like, we cannot protect our children from everything. We can only hope to raise them with a strong enough moral system that they can make the right decisions.
 
Then I guess if you have the right connections you can suppress pictures from being released. I'm thinking of The Kennedy family. Of course with JFK it was public record. But when JFK Jr. died they pretty much kept the aftermath private. There was a printed investigation, but no gory pictures. Then again the printed words were gruesome enough.
 
fureverywhere said:
Then I guess if you have the right connections you can suppress pictures from being released. I'm thinking of The Kennedy family. Of course with JFK it was public record. But when JFK Jr. died they pretty much kept the aftermath private. There was a printed investigation, but no gory pictures. Then again the printed words were gruesome enough.
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If you're brave enough (or crazy enough!) you might do a search on the Dark Web - don't know for sure, but if any place has those photos they would.

But yes, money and power can do some amazing things.
 
SifuPhil said:
But who will be the censor? What set of rules could possibly outline what is and isn't allowable?

The whole idea of the Internet is freedom of information, for all. Anything restricting it would start to erode that idea.

I fought to have this picture of me removed from the 'Net, but it was a losing battle.

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But you are like a cool cat with the shades and all,lol




I don't shy away from the gore and stuff BUT I once saw a beheading and I still can't get over it.
 
SifuPhil said:
If you're brave enough (or crazy enough!) you might do a search on the Dark Web - don't know for sure, but if any place has those photos they would.

But yes, money and power can do some amazing things.
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At least some of those Kennedy pix are out there if a person wants to search -- or you can bumble upon them. I often get interested in a topic or a question of history (card carrying history nut here), I'll be following something and get off in the weeds . . . .
 
Exactly, I've read so much of history and the space program tragedies. In some of the books there is a picture of Apollo 1 with the door burned. Enough to the imagination there. But then the space suit and you wish you hadn't seen it.
 
Butterfly said:
At least some of those Kennedy pix are out there if a person wants to search -- or you can bumble upon them. I often get interested in a topic or a question of history (card carrying history nut here), I'll be following something and get off in the weeds . . . .
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If I had a dollar for every time I did that ...

I was researching the Russian space program for an article I was writing, found a tiny little link about "Lost Russian Cosmonauts" and ended up spending several hours reading about them. :stupid:
 
SifuPhil said:
:)

I'm also related to Grumpy Cat. You can probably see the family resemblance.




There's plenty of nasty stuff on the 'Net. We just have to avoid the stuff that offends us.
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I do not doubt there is some 'grumpy' in you 'grin'

Yes,it just popped on the timeline and let it run a bit longer then I should have.
 
SifuPhil said:
If I had a dollar for every time I did that ...

I was researching the Russian space program for an article I was writing, found a tiny little link about "Lost Russian Cosmonauts" and ended up spending several hours reading about them. :stupid:
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I recently was fact checking about something I had seen in a movie about a Mt. Everest climbing expedition, then I got off in the weeds about high altitude cerebral edema, then I got sidetracked onto the George Mallory expedition in the '20s and discovered his body had recently been found, but that a camera was missing and maybe his partner had had it; partner's body has never been found; and if the camera was found with partner's body (if the body is ever found) could the film still be developed, and then if the film could be developed, whose property would the photos be, etc., etc., etc.; spent hours on that stuff and still didn't answer my basic question. I probably even forgot what the question was . . . .

The internet is a wonderful source of mostly useless but quite fascinating information.
 
Butterfly said:
I recently was fact checking about something I had seen in a movie about a Mt. Everest climbing expedition, then I got off in the weeds about high altitude cerebral edema, then I got sidetracked onto the George Mallory expedition in the '20s and discovered his body had recently been found, but that a camera was missing and maybe his partner had had it; partner's body has never been found; and if the camera was found with partner's body (if the body is ever found) could the film still be developed, and then if the film could be developed, whose property would the photos be, etc., etc., etc.; spent hours on that stuff and still didn't answer my basic question. I probably even forgot what the question was . . . .

The internet is a wonderful source of mostly useless but quite fascinating information.
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LOL - how true!

But sometimes it too can be wrong - I corrected a few lines uttered by Bugs Bunny on a vintage cartoon site - hey, I didn't spend hundreds of hours glued to the TV as a kid for nothing!

I once read a hilarious list (wish I had bookmarked it) about what people search for - wow! I thought I was warped ...
 
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