French Streamer Dies Live on Air After Months of Humiliation and Abuse
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French streamer dies live on air after months of humiliation and abuse, sparking discussion on online harassment and mental health.
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Influencers without complacent viewers are not influencers. Just like dumb people being encouraged by other dumb people to commit a crime are simply criminals. Being an influencer has little to do with it.
Torturing someone to make money, or paying to watch it, is a crime. Police should act accordingly, seize the servers, retrieve the IP addresses, and arrest the criminals.
> Torturing someone to make money, or paying to watch it, is a crime. Police should act accordingly, seize the servers, retrieve the IP addresses, and arrest the criminals.
Absolutely — if what you are seeing actually exceeds the boundaries of consent. A BDSM session where a professional whips a restrained subject to tears would have to be held to the same standard. Obviously, the makers have a responsibility to ensure consent is given, recorded, and can be withdrawn at any time — ignoring consensual non-consent (CNC) in this case for the sake of the argument — and this police investigation may indeed uncover duress, but can a viewer realistically know?
(In this case, possibly, because of the way subscribers could pay for extra torture actions.)
We need a new definition for influencers. I won’t deny adults the right to do what they want with their lives / life, but in this case influencers doesn’t feel accurate and transparent.