SAN FRANCISCO: A gunman’s livestream of a mass killing in New York state was taken down in a matter of minutes – but even that was not fast enough to prevent those images from becoming effectively impossible to erase from the Internet.
Posting horrific clips like those is not barred by US speech laws, experts told AFP, so the decision on whether to keep them online is largely left up to individual tech companies.
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