inappropriate content

• In a strange, dark turn for live video streaming, a 19 year old committed suicide live on Justin.tv last night.
• He apparently was an avid forum member at bodybuilding.com.
• The video and a lot of the posts have been removed, but of course, you can still find most of it around the net.
• Michael Siebel, Justin.tv CEO: “As for the broadcaster incident last night, we don’t comment on individual videos, however, our policy prohibits inappropriate content on Justin.tv. We rely on the community to flag videos that they feel are objectionable. Once a video is flagged, it is reviewed and quickly removed from the system if it violates our Terms of Use.“
• This has happened once before — a year ago a British man hung himself on the live video site Paltalk.
• In September, Mashable falsely reported a story about a man streaming his wife’s live child birth on UStream.tv. The birth process was never actually put on camera, but how long until this story does happen?
• For better or worse, we’ll see a lot more weird stuff to come as streaming live video becomes more ubiquitous.

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