OPINION
Mosque attack livestream shows how Facebook broke society’s guardrails
By Matthew Hennessey
March 16, 2019 | 8:36pm
This frame from video that was livestreamed shows guns in the car of alleged gunman Brenton Tarrant on social media before the mosque shootings in Christchurch, New Zealand.
Once upon a time, and not that long ago actually, people understood that you needed some guardrails in place if you were going to do live TV. Hence the idea of the seven-second delay.
The evening news, the World Series, Saturday Night Live, the Jerry Lewis telethon — anything that went out “live” over the air was subject to a guy with a censor’s button waiting for a bad word or a blooper.
The reason was simple: stuff happens.
Then along came the brave new world of social media and out went the button with the bath water. Almost a century of accumulated wisdom about broadcasting got swept away practically overnight in the rush to give every slob with a smartphone his own personal PBS.
The hell with standards and practices. Information wants to be free!
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READ MORE: https://nypost.com/2019/03/16/mosque-attack-livestream-shows-how-facebook-broke-societys-guardrails/
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But for the rest of us the cult of disruption is turning into a nightmare. Zuckerberg’s hubris knows no bounds. He wants his magic tools to be used only for good.
Turns out that’s not how the world works. Somebody older and wiser could have told him, if only he’d stopped to ask.
Facebook thought it was breaking the backward habits of an old-fashioned, outmoded society, but what if all they broke were the guardrails?
Matthew Hennessey is the author of “Zero Hour for Gen X: How the Last Adult Generation Can Save America from Millennials” (Encounter 2018).
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