Too much information

[andy-hughes]

In tandem with AOG's Question about the appropriateness of showing the pictures of Ghadaffi in all the national papers, India Knight made a similar point, using the example of that poor tot who was run over in China and left lying in the road.

As she points out - what sort of thinking is behind watching such footage? Who thinks "Hmm, a child run over and left dying in the road, I'd like to see that!"

I admit I have not sought out the footage - but who has, and why?

Anyone want to explain why they brought up the U-Tube clip - or offer an explanation about how we are progressing as a society if we use the miracle of mass communication to spread images like this among oursleves?

[andy-hughes]

doc - I know i am labouring my point here - but the fact is, it is simply not OK to post these films just because we can.It actually benefits no-one at all, and diminishes everyone who watches it.

This is the downside of technology, and it has to be wrong.

[Pinkypie]

Maybe it will shame the country in being a little more pro-active to it's humanitarian stance on things. It might not, but if it does, maybe something good can come out of something so tragic.

For example, details of Baby P were published for the good of highlighting what is wrong with the system and things are changing for the better. Just a thought!

[DrFilth]

the one good thing people are forgetting , with this cctv footage the driver of the van has been caught

[jackthehat]

Was that as a direct result of it being put on youtube? Or were the car/driver details apparent on the video itself?

[DrFilth]

in the report i read it did not say

[DrFilth]

andy from the guardian

>> Their apparent indifference means that she is hit again, by a truck. Surveillance camera footage from the busy wholesale market in Foshan, Guangdong, shows that it takes seven minutes before a woman finally stops to help. <<

[DrFilth]

andy from cnn

>> A security camera captured the horrific incident last Thursday outside a hardware market in Foshan, Guangdong Province. Two-year-old Wang Yue <<

[andy-hughes]

Does anyone seriously believe that after the Tiananmen Square massacre was beamed worldwide through news outlets, that the Chinese government, with one of the worst human rights records on the planet, is going to be shamed into action by the morbid tutting of a few western computer users?

Don't hold your collective breath!