I watched the video and I've looked at the website.
I'm wondering a couple of things:
1. She said that her son left his laptop open to SS. I'm curious as to why he did that, and which member he was, so I could see for myself what I'm asking here. Could he have done that because it explained his reasons for suicide? Did it show he wasn't alone when he died, and received support and compassion? I doubt his intentions were to say, "Shut down the site," but to try to communicate something to her, to convince her of something.
2. I wonder if she's considered what he would have done if this site didn't exist. He could have only found it if he was trying to find methods for suicide, so there was intent on his part. It's not like the site advertises or goes looking for fishing for unsuspecting members. Had he not found a site that gave him instructions for how to kill himself, what would he have found? When I myself was searching for a reliable, relatively painless method, there wasn't enough information for me to feel confident in an attempt, and I ended up finding this site. So I wonder if she's considered the possbilities of what would have happened had he not found it. For instance, he could have found information about hanging, and ended up not dead, but permanently brain damaged. Would she prefer that he'd attempted and been permanently harmed? Because there clearly was intention to attempt. And if something like that had happened, then who would she go after? Ultimately, the person who sought the information and committed the act is the one responsible. I understand that there are always extreme outlying circumstances, such as situations of coercion like the case mentioned in the OP (which had nothing to do with any website), but at least on the open forum, coercion doesn't happen here, and if it did, it would get nipped in the bud immediately.
I'm pretty sure she'll read this, she seems to keep up with the site, so I want to say, Kelli, I have respect for you. I've suffered losing someone to suicide, and it was not my own child or a family member. But I have compassion for your pain, and I don't at all disrespect you. It took me decades to see other sides of what my high school boyfriend may have been going through, I only saw what I experienced by his sudden loss, and what others experienced. Kelli, your son was an adult. He made a choice. And even if he wasn't an adult, he was still an autonomous human being who you could not control. If he didn't reach out to you for help, I'm so sorry that you've been left feeling impotent and victimized by the loss of your son. Again, it was not in your control. From my heart, I wish you healing, and I wish you the very best.
I hope that on your site you'll be more honest about the things you're linking and let people come to their own conclusions. On the evidence page, you set it up saying that children and people on the autism spectrum are being targeted, and here's the evidence, but the screenshots do not provide evidence of that, so in fact, you are targeting this site, not the site targeting others. You're using persuasive rhetoric, but the evidence doesn't match the claims, so what that says to me is that, while you may convince people who don't have critical thinking skills by handing them torches and pitchforks, you're also revealing a weak position by attempting to falsely manipulate opinons and support. If you want to put yourself out there as coming from a position of moral authority, then you need to act in moral and intellectual integrity. Your actions are your shelter and your refuge; actions of weak integrity create a weak shelter and refuge, especially when the time comes that you will take hits for standing up for what you believe in and choose to pursue.
