It’s all over the place on Facebook and Twitter though. There’s dog fighting, cock fighting, monkey abuse showing up on my Facebook home feed every now and then. This shouldn’t be a surprise really.

They kinda did. The dudes were taken in as part of an ongoing investigation but were then released. I can see why it’s fared for the cops when even the victims are saying it’s by their own choice. But it’s no excuse for kick.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/article/outcry-over-french-streamers-death-on-air-as-authorities-probe-allegations-of-abuse/

The investigation, opened in December, is looking into “deliberate violence against vulnerable persons” and “spreading recordings of images related to offences involving deliberate violations of physical integrity,” Martinelli’s statement said. It did not specify why Pormanove could be considered vulnerable.

The statement said two co-streamers allegedly involved in the case were briefly taken into custody in January but were released pending further investigation.

In parallel, the Nice prosecutor said, investigators interviewed Pormanove and one of his co-streamers who both appeared to be victims of violence and humiliation. They “strongly denied being victims of violence, stating that the events were staged in order to `generate a buzz’ and make money.”

It’s similar to fear factor—you can authorize quite a lot of things in a contract.

The medical examiner has said that they don’t think his death was caused directly by the treatment during the stream.

As long as you give a platform to the right wing, laws never apply to you.

Physical trauma maybe

Kick CEO was a top 5 donor to the channel in question. Not only did they know, they actively encouraged it.

“Salut maman, Comment tu vas ? Coincé pour un moment avec son jeu de mort, avait-il déclaré. Ça va trop loin. J’ai l’impression d’être séquestré avec leur concept de merde. J’en ai marre, je veux me barrer, l’autre il veut pas, il me séquestre”. (“Hey Mom, how are you? Stuck for a while with his death game,” he said. “This is going too far. I feel like I’m being held captive with their shitty concept. I’m fed up, I want to get out, the other guy doesn’t want me, he’s holding me captive.”)

Source

From what I understood the two fuckers will probably get a 25 to 30 years of jail sentence, and some of the people who donated money to them to encourage them in the torture also risk prison time. Which I fucking hope they get.

Someone took upon himself to save all the worst clips and try to raise the alarm, they have more than 300 hours of stream capture with evidence of torture and other wrongdoings.

So all those "red room" legends were true. It's just that instead of being in the dark web, it was broadcast in public for the world to see. How dystopian.

There is even a sequence where the two fuckers try to force him to say that "if he dies on stream, it won't be their fault" but the fault of his "shitty health situation". He flat out refused.

They perfectly knew they were in the process of killing him.

Kinda homeless? The victim is the largest french gaming streamer and definitely not homeless. There's indications of mental health problems but it's only visible on camera. There are no documents verifying it unfortunately (though it seems evident). The two killers are people he's known and hung out with for years.

Edit: The apartment was rented specifically for this stream.

It's sort of an extension of lolcow culture. This is a vid I recommend to watch to understand it.

https://youtu.be/vJWBVaNdAFg

Jackass stunts and fights aren't sustained over multiple days ever

Boxing ,MMA.etc ?

https://www.espn.com/boxing/story/_/id/45935560/two-japanese-boxers-die-brain-injuries-suffered-same-fight-card

I'm not exactly a US constitutional lawyer, but I'm willing to bet that snuff films aren't protected by the First Amendment.

Believe it or not, prolonged physical and mental torture is not speech, a religion, a function of the press, an assembly, or a petition. You could probably get some of the physical violence covered by the Second Amendment though, if you have a gun and just do a little of the South Park "he's coming right for us" thing.

In this case I am quite happy to be out of the loop, frankly. I can live in blissful ignorance of at least this stuff.

mr beast is such attention seeker, he does charity porn and most likely going to make a video on how he just paid for it, which makes it insincere when people do these kinds of things.

The people who work for thr ufc have been defending raja but the mma community wants him in jail. Theyre way to racist to miss this opportunity.

The investigation started in December 2024, the abusers was taken into custody then released unconditionally so i don't see how the authorities are not responsible too  

Violence is fine. What's not fine is the permanent disfigurement or death of participants and the lack of preventative controls against that.

In a cage match, a participant would never be ignored long enough to stop breathing, like they did here.

This comment might provide some insights: https://lemmy.zip/comment/21080783

Sources for that information should be easy to cite, yet I notice none.

they can do it in private

How do we tell real apart from fake performances? Should fake performances be private only when they already aren't? Seems difficult to police without chilling freedoms.

Economic coercion needs to be controlled somehow. I guess the question is how to police actual abuse while permitting legal performances like the Jackass franchise of reality, slapstick comedy.