{"id":6570,"date":"2017-01-13T04:08:09","date_gmt":"2017-01-13T04:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thefastfashion.com\/?p=6570"},"modified":"2017-01-13T04:08:09","modified_gmt":"2017-01-13T04:08:09","slug":"a-12-year-old-killed-herself-on-live-video-facebook-wont-take-it-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thefastfashion.com\/?p=6570","title":{"rendered":"A 12-year-old killed herself on live video. Facebook won\u2019t take it down."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Live video has become increasingly controversial as social media sites have encouraged use of the tool but have struggled to monitor it.<\/p>\n<p>The most prominent example was when four Chicago residents kidnapped and tortured a mentally challenged man in the beginning of January, broadcasting the whole thing on Facebook Live. It was eventually taken down by Facebook, but not before it had been shared and embedded by others.<\/p>\n<p>Another incident with live video occurred on Dec. 30, this time originating on another site with livestreaming capabilities called live.me. That was the day Katelyn Nicole Davis, a 12-year-old in Georgia,<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span>decided to kill herself in a 40-minute live video<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span>after saying she had been physically and sexually assaulted by a family member, according to BuzzFeed. A<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span>Facebook page started in her memory<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span>details signs she may have suffered from depression.<\/p>\n<div class=\"teads-inread\" style='transition:height 0.5s; height: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; overflow: hidden; font-family: \"McClatchy Sans\", Arial, \"Helvetica Neue\", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; box-sizing: content-box; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;'>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<p>Her family took down the video following Davis\u2019 death, but Polk County Police Chief Kenny Dodd told<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span>Fox5<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span>his department has been told the video is still circulating on social media platforms such as Facebook. He said he doesn\u2019t have the legal authority to make anyone take the video down.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe want it down as much as anyone for the family and it may be harmful to other kids,\u201d Dodd said. \u201cWe contacted some of the sites. They asked if they had to take it down and by law they don\u2019t. But it\u2019s just the common decent thing to do in my opinion.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"box shadow  \"><div class=\"box-inner-block\"><i class=\"fa tie-shortcode-boxicon\"><\/i>\n\t\t\t<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"295\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FPolkCoPD%2Fposts%2F734856393355051&amp;width=500\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" style=\"border: currentColor; overflow: hidden;\"><\/iframe>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/div>\n<p>But Facebook apparently tells users who report the video that it doesn\u2019t violate their<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span>standards, and simply recommends ways users can block it from their own feeds. If you report the video, the response from Facebook reads in part:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThanks for letting us know about this. We\u2019ve looked over the following post, and although it doesn\u2019t go against any of our specific community standards, you did the right thing by letting us know about it. We understand that it may still be offensive or distasteful to you, so we want to help you see less of things such as this in the future.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Live video has become increasingly controversial as social media sites have encouraged use of the tool but have struggled to monitor it. The most prominent example was when four Chicago residents kidnapped and tortured a mentally challenged man in the beginning of January, broadcasting the whole thing on Facebook Live. 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