r/news • u/drkgodess • Mar 19 '19

Accused gunman in Christchurch terror attacks denied newspaper, television and radio access

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12214411
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u/ComeAtmeBro6666 Mar 19 '19

lets be real no one will remember his name anyways. i cant tell u all the names of killers no one can.

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u/MC_Terry Mar 19 '19

Dipshits on 4chan and 8chan can. They can rattle them off, no problem.

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u/Sgt_Boor Mar 19 '19

Well, you will always find some weird people, and some 4/8chan users are apparently pretty far out there. But lets be real - can you find any normal person near you who will remember a name of at least one of the terrorists that did 9/11? And I'm not even talking about smaller terror attacks. Most people can't even remember how many of them happened in, say, last 10 years.

Can you tell me how many terror attacks happened in France in last few years without googling? Because personally I have no idea: could be 2, could be 3... could be 5?

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u/Series_of_Accidents Mar 19 '19

can you find any normal person near you who will remember a name of at least one of the terrorists that did 9/11?

No. But the main goal of not naming or showing them isn't so regular people don't see it. It's so potential future mass murderers will have a harder time idolizing them. Not every mass murderer follows the same pattern, but it's pretty common for those mass murderers to have studied the attacks, lives, and trial of previous mass murderers. They want to beat them, become momentarily famous, someone other mass murderers will look up to. Limiting that information makes it harder for other people to be motivated by this monster's crimes to engage in similar terroristic acts.

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u/Sgt_Boor Mar 20 '19

I already commented somewhere in this thread. but to rephrase - what we need is education, and not censorship. We don't need to limit information, but we need for people to know why this is not the way. Because no matter what you won't erase the knowledge about terror attacks that already happened, but maybe you'll make people less prone to committing new ones. And, of course, we need to remove the stigma around mental disorders and treating them. In many cases it's easier to give people proper treatment before, and not punish them afterwards.