YouTube and Reddit are sued for allegedly enabling the racist mass shooting in Buffalo that left 10 dead::The complementary lawsuits claim that the massacre in 2022 was made possible by tech giants, a local gun shop, and the gunman’s parents.

            • mercury@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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              1 year ago

              I don’t know anything about it, I can’t say for sure. Probably the guy couldn’t get a gun, if I’d have to say.

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                1 year ago

                You’re arguing that getting a license would somehow prevent this shooting? The kid bought the guns legally as it is. They were not illegally obtained. So getting a license is just one more hoop to jump through. It wouldn’t have stopped anything, IMO.

                • Mistic@lemmy.world
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                  1 year ago

                  The thing about hoops is that they do prevent a lot of things.

                  Not all of them, but a lot.

                  “Ah, that’s too much to bother” is surprisingly a good deterrent.

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      1 year ago

      If you don’t believe online words can sway people’s beliefs/opinions or drive them to action then why are you leaving this comment here?

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        1 year ago

        I didn’t say that. You’re putting words into my mouth. It still took a human to take up arms and use a tool. Youtube alone didn’t do this. Reddit alone didn’t do this. Guns alone didn’t do this. Training and a license would not have prevented this.

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          1 year ago

          Now you’re putting words into everyone else’s mouth. Who said any of those things are solely responsible for this tragedy? Why are you arguing as if the shooter is walking free while prosecutors go after YouTube and Reddit?

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            1 year ago

            Then why are they suing Youtube and Reddit if they don’t think those platforms are responsible? I’m saying that you people want to blame every fucking other thing in the world, EXCEPT for the person doing the fucking crime. How am I arguing that the shooter is free? I’m literally saying, this kid would have likely done this with or without those things and the stupid idea that a license would prevent it is asinine.

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              1 year ago

              How am I arguing that the shooter is free?

              This right here:

              I’m saying that you people want to blame every fucking other thing in the world, EXCEPT for the person doing the fucking crime

              The shooter is facing his day in court as will the companies who helped drive him to commit this tragedy.

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                1 year ago

                lol, ok. sure buddy. Any yet we get constant cries for the removal of guns because without guns this wouldn’t happen right?

                • CmdrShepard
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                  1 year ago

                  Not sure what this has to do with the rest of the discussion, but no I don’t think mass shootings would be very common if guns didn’t exist.