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No I wouldn't. But that's a completely different scenario.
This was an editorial judgement. We made the same judgement as Vice: we pixelated the actual execution but otherwise showed the footage unaltered.
It is our job to report the news. To accurately portray what happens in the world. If we sat on that footage and didn't show it, that would be censorship. There's already a country which airbrushes the news to take out the bits they don't like. It's called North Korea.
You say that you find it surprising that people find your viewpoint almost laughable (n.b: I don't) but you are arguing for censorship of the media in the context of a violent attack on a media outlet by people who wanted censorship of the media because they didn't like it because it offended them.
Can you not see the heavy irony there?
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Yes, I can see the irony, but so what? I just don't think things are that black and white. Censorship isn't a bad thing per se (besides, I'm advocating self-censorship here): it becomes problematic when the people implementing censorship do so to cover their own backs, their corruption, or the truth of the thing. In this instance that does not apply. Like I said, the only motive for showing this video is to improve ratings - or maybe to satisfy one's darker curiosity (and actually, I do accept that as a motive, albeit a dubious one).
But we're flogging a dead horse here; you're not convinced by my arguments, nor I with yours.
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This is footage of a live execution - it's entirely different.
Would you happy for it to be shown if it was a small child getting it in the brain, I wonder.