The title only mentions YouTube, Meta, and Twitch but the body of the article mentions that Kick, TikTok, and X (Formally Twitter) also. With Kick and TikTok saying that a livestream of an execution would violate their policies but with X (formally Twitter) being with YouTube, Meta, and Twitch in saying that they won’t say whether they will or not.
They will.
And people will pay to advertise around it. Society is fucked.
Corporate social media endorsing and distributing the State’s public executions in contravention to its own content moderation policies is full circle, Capital F, textbook, Stage 5 Fascism with a big ‘ol Swastika spinning overhead with fireworks and the national anthem. (Also see points six, nine, and twelve.)
Do they rework the algorithms, give it a special title using the word “unalive”, or just stick it in an ad space for the duration? Pretty sure the algorithms on these pages would bury the vid or auto ban the account unless they reworked some fundamental things on their sites.
They could allow the live stream on an official channel, but still censor the killing elsewhere.
They’ll have AI recolor the blood into green and have confetti fly out of the wounds on impact lmao.
Throw in a wilhelm scream for good measure