Posted on 05/29/2022 8:40:03 AM PDT by Starman417
One of the very first things that social media outlets do following a murder or bombing or mass shooting is to delete the account of the alleged perpetrator.
That is a mistake.
Salvador Ramos threatened teens on the teen app Yubo. He telegraphed his intentions:
Mass murderer Salvador Ramos boasted of buying a gun and said some people “deserved to be raped” on the teen app Yubo, where users nicknamed him “school shooter”– even before Tuesday’s massacre in Uvalde, Texas. It was unclear how long before Ramos slaughtered 21 people, including 19 kids inside Robb Elementary School that he was given the chilling nickname, Sky News reported.Sky News examined his social media activity and wrote that Ramos appeared to be a "socially isolated young man who appears to have violent fantasies of revenge".“He was given the nickname ‘Yubo’s school shooter,’ ” one unidentified 17-year-old girl who uses the platform told the outlet. “People would join … be like, ‘Oh, hey, look it’s Yubo’s school shooter,’” said the 17-year-old, adding, “He never tried to shut down that nickname, he seemed almost proud of it, you know.” Ramos also bragged about buying a gun and in one audio chatroom said people deserved “to get raped,” according to the report.
"Yubo's school shooter." It doesn't get any more obvious or clear than that. Yubo deleted the account and it's the wrong thing to do.
It is proper to freeze accounts that violate terms of usage but they should remain visible. Social media is very frequently the vehicle upon which a trail of intention crumbs is left. Leaving them visible has a purpose and it is one of education. First, anyone threatening children or schools (or any other maniacal threats) should be reported to authorities for cross-referencing on the NICS database for weapons purchasing. If said persons have purchased weapons local LEO's should be promptly dispatched to pay a visit. Unfortunately this would only be as good as the local cops are. Clarence Dupnik let Jared Loughner slide and Gabby Giffords was shot as a consequence. The FBI didn't take Nikolas Cruz seriously and he went to kill 17 people.
It has to get better.
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Then there’s that.
Gun violence…/s
Got to hide the fact that he had more red flags that a Chinese parade so that guns can solely be blamed. We wouldn’t want the peasants to know what to look for in a kid about to go on a murder spree.
We shouldn’t be talking about him. We are only encouraging copycats. I am surprised that more people are not talking about this.
Within the first hour of this breaking there were pics from his social media of him as a cross dresser. Now, the liars are saying there was a woman who pretended to be him and posted herself on his websites. NOW I ASK, who In the hell thinks, gee I think I will pretend to be the mass killer that just shot up a school.
delete the account of the alleged perpetrator
First, local TV stations had on-scene reporters collecting details, talking to witnesses and bystanders, and reporting that information.
After about an hour or two, the TV live reporting changed from reporters on the scene to local officials on the scene.
Then, the TV live reporting switched to 'the FBI is reporting ...'
Then, the TV live reporting switched again to 'the White House is reporting ...'
Is the OP article advocating that killers’ social media posts should be left up for public view AFTER they’ve committed their crimes?
We shouldn’t be talking about him. We are only encouraging copycats.
Exactly.
☆☆☆☆ what you wrote!!!
SILENCE OF THE LAMBS 2.0.
The problem is, there are other sickos that idolize these psychotic killers.
Try posting anything about covid or the vax or something negative about trannys on social media and they remove it and shut you down in minutes.
I agree…deleting the posts has nothing to do with protecting the public or preventing copycats. It’s all about hiding the evidence of failure: the failure of the school system, the failure of the justice system, the failure of the mental health system, the failure of his parents, and the failure of law enforcement.
I thought it was against the law to make threats of the kind he was making - both to individuals and to schools - and they should have tracked him down and “interviewed” him rather than leaving him to fester in his insanity and blow up.
All of the crazy adolescent or young adult male killers (of any race, this is the group that is doing it) who have carried out these crimes have announced in advance that they were going to do just exactly what they did. Their friends just distanced themselves and social media companies and LE were too busy trying to get Trump to bother with a real threat to the public.
“...hiding the evidence of failure...”
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Or maybe hiding the recipe for successfully creating a crisis for which grabbing guns and repealing the 2A is predictably going to be the only possible answer/solution?
This.🤔
It works against the gun grabbing agenda for people to see that these mass shooters are evil people.
They scrub it so that people will be less likely to see that the reality does not fit the media / government narrative, or lead to the instigators.
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