"Musashi" <Miyamoto@Hosokawa.co.jp> wrote in message

>I heard yesterday from a friend in Tokyo that Japanese
>web sites which had the Kouda Beheading Video have
>taken them off under the instructions of the Japanese government,
>on the grounds that it is distressing and
>disrespectful to the surviving family and friends of the victim.
>Has anyone else heard this?

Yes.

>While I certainly agree with the reasoning,

I dont. The video should not be displayed because it's Koda and his family's
f*cking right for a minimum of privacy. If the Kodas don't want it to be
showed, arrest, sue and jail those that do it. If you can't get them, at
least shut down their pages.
Showing someone's death like that is in the same order as showing porn films
you've made by hidding a camera in your neighbour's bedroom. The internet
providers that don't cancel (as soon as get aware of it) the accounts of
guys doing that on their homepages should be asked to quit the trade. Just
like those that allow hosting child porn, etc.
If all the decent countries had a coherent policy about that, things like
spam and illegal stuff on webpages would soon become anecdotical on the web.
Only countries like the US, Israel and South-Korea would keep doing it, so
that'd be possible to filter them out and ignore them and their businesses
(they wouldn't resist long).

>if this is true, the notion that a government of a democratic country can
or should do
> such a thing disturbs me.

Yeah, very disturbing to think they just don't have a law about respecting
people's privacy in cases when governements don't intervene specifically.

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