Just for reference, here's an alphabetical list of countries which broadcast executions:
- Afghanistan
- Iran
- Iraq
- North Korea
- Saudi Arabia
- United States
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These do public executions yes but even they don't broadcast it live.
Only Mexican cartels and ISIS broadcast snuff flims, and now the US is on that list too.
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Iraq and Saudi Arabia don't do public executions these days, and none of them besides the US live stream them. Apparently they're the first country to ever do it.
The real problem is the reasons some of these countries condemn people to death, regardless of the barbarism they engage in while carrying it out.
The US's actions are only notable because they are held to a higher standard, rightly so.
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Everyone needs to ban this barbarism.
Uncivilized barbarians.
There are already 82837463829 execution videos available online. If it's even going to be broadcast, and with no protection or authentication (doubt), just don't watch it. And don't give us that bullshit "protect the kids" answer. How effective was the social media ban? 7% of kids actually blocked going by the last report?
Backward shithole.
Play it live on every channel, every screen in the country. Put it on repeat. Show it on street corners and in pubs. Show it in primary schools and high schools. Everyone should see what we're endorsing by being a US client state. Let those who want to revel in their inhumanity go over every sick detail with glee.
Yep. Show the homeless. Show the millions in penal servitude. Show the working poor. Show the communities racked by drugs and violence. Show the school massacres. Show the executions. Show the lynchings. Show the Epstein files. Even most Americans don't know the truth of their country.
It's funny to me you're listing things we're already aware of thanks to the US being a transparent western democracy. Things that are the subject of heated discussion within the country as well.
the usa is a warmongering duopoly, not a democracy.
It's obviously a democracy, so idk why you would deny that. Idk what a "warmongering duopoly" is.
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So we shouldn't be a US client state? What should we be?
not siding with evil would be cool
America is evil, got it 👍
What should we do about it?
Everyone should know the terror of the usa.
This is what they've always been, whether it's a charismatic or bumbling killer on their throne.
The world should unite against their barbarism.
How myopic. I didn't realise America's sole focus since it's inception has been terror and barbarism. I guess PEPFAR, USAID, the civil rights act, the Marshall Plan, fighting smallpox and polio, and international disaster relief were just cosmic whoopsies that materialised from the ether.
ISIS does it = terrorism.
US Gov does it = justice.
That's not the reason ISIS are labelled as terrorists.
Terrorists kill innocent people to spread terror. The US would never kill innocents except for all the innocents they kill.
Exactly, to spread terror. You've correctly identified that motive is a part of the definition. Congrats.
The US is chiefly concerned with fighting militants for material strategic goals, and has laws against targetting civilians.
ISIS is chiefly concerned with butchering anyone, regardless of civilian status, to gain, and maintain through fear, power in a region.
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ISIS
US Gov
They're both the same.
The world super power and global hegemon for secular western democracy is the same as a theocratic insurgency terror org? Wow I had no idea.
Since the inception, USA has always been imperialist and since the end of World War II, has been involved in more global conflicts than any other countries. USA merely operates on "lesser evil" framework. And up until recently, USA has been secular, but democratic? Hardly to begin with. Just ask black Americans, Native Americans, Filipinos, Vietnamese, Iraqis and Latin Americans. The US ignored the UN resolutions many times, especially on not invading Iraq under false pretense of hiding weapons of mass destruction. So, USA has always been a terrorist state but in different name and face. I would go so far as to say that Trump took off the facade of the country as the shining beacon on the hill. After all, American people had been demanding for authenticity.
Blah, blah, blah, America bad, America bad. I thought the attack on the Russian data centres put you guys out of commision?
I'd rather a lessor evil framework than... Oh wait your not suggesting anything because you're an empty vessel for campist brain rot.
Nobody cares about "imperialism", they care about living standards, representation, and economic prosperity. America has strived to realise these ideals and helped other nations reach them to through its international humanitarian efforts and security guarentees.
Any failure to meet their own standards pales in comparison to actual terrorists who don't have those standards to begin with, so your use of that word really exposes your ignorance.
Btw the UN means nothing, it's a glorified group chat for tinpot dictators and despots. A majority of the member states fall below 6 on the democratic index, i.e. they are corrupt authoritarian shit-holes.
I thought the attack on the Russian data centres put you guys out of commision?
Bold angle coming from a much younger account literally named "tankiesmasher" that seems to only contribute anti-communist talking points.
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I'd rather a lessor evil framework than... Oh wait your not suggesting anything because you're an empty vessel for campist brain rot.
Any failure to meet their own standards pales in comparison to actual terrorists who don't have those standards to begin with, so your use of that word really exposes your ignorance.
Sorry to say this to you lib, but if Saddam wasn't toppled, ISIS would not even have come out in the first place. Saddam's secular regime was what was stopping the theocratic terrorism that you yourself had been criticising. So if you want to talk about "lessor evil", then maybe you should not be doing your own terrorism. You created ISIS simply because your country wanted oil at the obvious pretense of "spreading freedom".
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Hopefully Canada will not broadcast it.
It'll be on the web. Whatever the law Australians and Canadians who want to watch the killing will be able to
If they can stop under 16s accessing social media then they can do this....Oh wait...
This is where I find the Greens not effective.
Banning it from being livestreamed is impossible and will do nothing.
The government should be condemning the US government for still having the death penalty, and use this as an opportunity to make the arguments to why the death penalty is stupid.
And further why it's so important for us to not be wholly in bed with the US on everything.
This is where I find the Greens not effective.
Very strange criticism for a minor party that is not in government.
The government should be condemning the US government for still having the death penalty, and use this as an opportunity to make the arguments to why the death penalty is stupid.
Is this supposed to be your very sensible, realistic alternative? Have you been paying attention during the last decade of Australian/US relations?
And further why it’s so important for us to not be wholly in bed with the US on everything.
This is the position of The Greens, and has been for years.
What I mean is effective in their political messaging.
I don't disagree with them on this, otherwise. It's fucked. And should be prohibited on all Australian media, online or otherwise.
But part of the conversation now, annoyingly, is whether it's even feasible to ban all streaming.
I will admit that my criticism was probably a bit overblown, and influenced emotionally by my general dislike of the Greens' ideas about affecting societal change. (i.e. they're not anti-capitalist, aren't democratic in their party structure, and believe we can reform our way to something better through parliament)
I'll take them over Labor any day though, their heart is in the right place as a party.
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Wouldn't this type of content already be "refused classification" thus disallowed to be broadcast?
A website is not a broadcast. So, it can (and would) disallow the content from being broadcast on TV. But not from a webpage.
While we are at discussing the idea, it kinda won't work. You can block all of the Internet or none of the Internet. You can't block some of the Internet. If you 'block' a site from Australia, people can and will simply VPN to another country and access it there.
Oh, I'm well aware of the technical impossibility. I meant legally no one in Australia would be allowed to publish it, so a ban is moot. If it's likely to be RC for a regular broadcaster, it can't be published online, either.
https://www.infrastructure.gov.au/department/media/publications/online-content-regulation
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Eh? Why would we have it ‘live streamed’ anyway?
Besides that; All of our FTA tv channels will blur anything remotely confronting as a matter of course.
You tube is where you’ll get your jollies. And the Australian government can’t/won’t censor that…
The Australian government was able to remove access to social media for under 16's to 'protect them', so why aren't they able to remove access to live streamed murder?
able to remove access
No they weren’t, they just said they could. Any kid who wants to access it, especially the worst bits, still can
This is hopefully a 1 time 'event', blocking access to this would have an immediate effect, the issue would be that once this is online, there will be multiple ways in future to view it, and sick f*cks who wish to do so.
A decent government would still oppose this, and would attempt to block access to it.
Definitely, no argument here and the government should be clear on it.
This is a fucking disgrace. I’m not surprised though.
Block is not the same as remove.
Remove access is not the same as remove content
Being a pedant is not the same as making a valid point.
Hmmm... You know what, I don't actually know the technical means by which a government blocks something.
Do they have to contact the Internet Asigned Numbers Authority or something? Or is it done via contacting the major ISPs? Or some Australian exit point?
No idea, I was surprised that they were able to get social media to comply with their censoring the young from information bs, since Australia is such a small market.
"Livestreaming US execution would breach prohibition of torture, UN rights office warns" https://news.un.org/en/story/2026/10/1168565
Every nation should be doing whatever they can to block access to this, and should also be opposing the usa's choice to be even sicker f*cks than they normally are.
Serious question? Or trolling?
Serious question? Or trolling?
They were able to geoblock the 2024 attempted stabbing of the orthodox protest, but I don't think they were able to get it taken down. Pretty sure that the Christchurch massacre was taken down though
Both were after the fact though. Which I am sure they will have the court orders ready to go. But the livestream is another story.
Either way. It will be interesting to see what happens.
So it can be monetised and sponsored.
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