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Post #1738188

2025-09-11 21:35 UTC

I keep reading the same thing in article after article about #charliekirk — "all of us were forced to see the horrible video on #SocialMedia whether we wanted to or not". Not to be too smug about it but no, not all of us, right? Because I'm on #Mastodon I didn't get auto-playing videos of Kirk's shooting brought to me by an algorithm which decided it was "popular".

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  • @stepan@f.cz 2025-09-11 21:44

    @negative12dollarbill@techhub.social and if you did see it in your feed, it would have a proper content warning

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  • @Beachbum@mastodon.sdf.org 2025-09-11 21:49

    @negative12dollarbill@techhub.social Our granddaughter was over yesterday and of course she was on TikTok and said she had just watched the video of him being shot and asked if I wanted to see it. I told her I was sad because watching that video is desensitising our youth to the violence. I explained we never saw that kind of raw violence until the Vietnam war and I’d prefer never to see it. Did you watch it? #uspol

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  • @jaredwhite@indieweb.social 2025-09-11 22:18

    @negative12dollarbill@techhub.social same here, I have no wish to see it and I haven’t.

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  • @negative12dollarbill@techhub.social Yep. I had ample opportunity to watch, but it was ultimately up to me. Kinda nice

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  • @CaptMorgan@freeradical.zone 2025-09-11 23:46

    @negative12dollarbill@techhub.social Nobody forced anyone to see anything. They all chose to support surveillance capitalism

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  • @negative12dollarbill@techhub.social Thats the point!!

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  • @Alison@beige.party 2025-09-12 00:54

    @negative12dollarbill@techhub.social I'm on FB for various reasons and haven't seen the video. I also don't intend to watch it.

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  • @sparseMatrix@defcon.social 2025-09-12 00:54

    @negative12dollarbill@techhub.social same here, I have not seen the video.

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  • @emilyh@genealysis.social 2025-09-12 00:57

    @negative12dollarbill@techhub.social @xris@ecoevo.social Yes! I didn’t see it on Mastodon and I don’t have a television and I still haven’t seen it and I’m glad.

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  • @GalbinusCaeli@spacey.space 2025-09-12 03:33

    @negative12dollarbill@techhub.social There is video? I didn't know. Now I know. Meh.

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  • @gareth@tenforward.social 2025-09-12 07:03

    @negative12dollarbill@techhub.social It showed up once on my timeline, under a Content Warning and I… just chose not to watch it, and kept scrolling. The way it should be.

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  • @negative12dollarbill@techhub.social I haven't seen it either. (And don't want to. It sounds gruesome and awful.) The only social media I use now is Mastodon, and a wee dabble in Reddit, but just specific subreddits that are pretty well moderated. I use YouTube, but they'll have been proactively taking it down, and I curate my recs pretty strictly there, so wouldn't expect to see it randomly.

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