(October 19, 2021 at 3:44 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:(October 19, 2021 at 3:17 pm)vulcanlogician Wrote: ^
Yeah. That's bullshit. Before I claimed that "people are hard." But really I should have said "people are cruel and unfeeling." Filming the assault is not intervening. Intervening is intervening. Calling for help is intervening. This new dimension of people filming it is especially disturbing. JFC.
So much this. Intervening would be something to help stop the crime - such as calling the cops. What these people did was spectating.
Boru
If I were to guess, I would suspect that those people had more interest in new material for their social media channel. Now they are stuck. They cannot use such material as they may have gathered in any way without identifying themselves as one of the bastards that did nothing. Sure, they could find some anonymous outlet to publish it, but that does not generate hits for their channel and is traceable to source anyway.
They cannot post it on their channel as that would expose them to public opprobrium in no uncertain way.
They cannot hand it over to the cops because it might expose themselves to legal sanction and will also become public knowledge if used in evidence.
So what can they do with such footage? Leer over it? Get their jollies over it? That would be sick.