cross-posted from: https://reddthat.com/post/48253216

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  • A 46-year-old French streamer died on camera during a 10-day marathon broadcast featuring sleep deprivation and physical challenges.
  • Viewers watched him lie motionless for an extended period before co-streamers checked on him after being alerted through donations.
  • What happened raises serious questions about dangerous streaming content and platform moderation on sites like Kick.
  • plyth@feddit.org
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    4 days ago

    Why put the focus on the platform and not the streamer who didn’t let him go? This will end in censorship. There is nothing wrong with adults pushing themselves to their limits.

    Pushing the limits is accepted in sport and mountaineering, it shouldn’t be questioned here.

    • Beppe@beehaw.org
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      4 days ago

      my take is that a platform is responsible because it monetizes this content and provides pay to it’s users. I see this as a platform encouraging this behavior in the worst case, and a platform being ignorant and not caring about this behavior in the best.

      When you are poor/in need of money to survive, you might choose to do these things that this site allows you to do, thus it is responsible in that way (imo :3)

      • plyth@feddit.org
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        3 days ago

        So we create a Foxconn environment where workers cannot jump to death?

        The problem is poverty. Soon after platform providers have to censor content, they will have to censor all critical content. Then abuse will increase and poverty will increase, too.

        We have to help the poor directly. We don’t help them by giving up our freedoms.

        • Hadriscus@jlai.lu
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          2 days ago

          Right, we should end poverty instead.
          Fortunately it shouldn’t be nearly as difficult as imposing minimal regulations on Kick

          • plyth@feddit.org
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            2 days ago

            It is difficult but that would create the opportunity to actually solve it.

    • ivn@jlai.lu
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      4 days ago

      This is not about pushing limits, this is about consent and manipulation.

      • plyth@feddit.org
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        3 days ago

        I agree, as long as it is not the grueling multi-day marathon broadcast itself.