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BBC News - The families fighting to shut down suicide websites
The families fighting to shut down suicide websites
The Samaritans charity says the government’s new online safety bill “isn’t fit for purpose”.www.bbc.co.uk
BBC nws u.k - hs bn aird on t.v
I found this from Twitter and Melanie Saville who is Joe's sister:Here they go again with their shameless lies
Man, 23, killed himself after finding a suicide forum
Chip shop worker Joe Nihill, 23, of Leeds, died in April 2020 after exchanging dozens of messages on the website, which has not been named. His mother spoke to BBC News.www.dailymail.co.uk
In the initial article about this story over a year ago, it also mentions that he fell victim to a stabbing attack in broad daylight, which might've traumatized him and contributed to his suicidality. British police aren't doing shit to keep the streets safe because they are busy chasing down law-abiding citizens for purchasing SN or owning an unlicensed kitchen knife. That's something she could funnel her rage and grief into and achieve meaningful change instead of harrasing and demonizing other suicidal people.
www.the-sun.com
They are almost at 7500 for the shut down petition
These people don't realize this website actually helps more people than anything. Some people would have never recovered without this site. Some people have nobody else to talk to who understands them and what they're going through.
It's definitely helping me to talk to people on here dealing with the same issues. I don't feel judged like I do talking to doctors and other people.
Would any of these petitions actually have the ability to shut the site down for good? I hope not, the people signing it don't realise how many people rely on SS to speak about issues without being censored.
Okay well go on Twitter and tell that to "fixthe26" nevermind they are probably reading this right now.
People are self involved idiots that sign these petitions with very little actual thought. Certainly not of their own volition. Petitions can be a dangerous thing.
Gah, its dismal isn't it!? Even without this site factored in. The thought of such a policed internet really bugs me. Sites like youtube have already gone to shit. I used to love youtube as a resource. Learned loads of things there. It was a decent platform for free expression for a while too. Not anymore. Though they no doubt claim to be free speach advocates. There is some utter shite on the internet and some nasty hateful people/groups that do no doubt do harm in the things they spread but hiding it won't get rid. It'll just drive it back underground, thus allowing it to fall out of site and peoples first awareness of much of it will be when it blindsides them and really does some damage.
www.npr.org
What gets me with the "parents, be careful, they're coming for your children!!!!1!1" type stories is that often the people who died were full adults. Like the 17 year old is obviously a different story and kids should not be on this site, but when parents cry "oh nooooooo my poor child committed suicide, clearly they were forced into it!" or something and then the "child" is fully 27? Yeah, that was that person's own independent choice independent of SS and you as their parent should really stay out of it.amazon-suicide-teenagers-poisonA parents' lawsuit accuses Amazon of selling suicide kits to teenagers
Amazon sold the food preservative sodium nitrite, which lawyers say has no household use at high purity levels, to people who later killed themselves using the substance, the suit claims.
"A previous complaint filed in Washington state earlier this year by the same law firm alleged that Amazon sold the drug to two other people — 27-year-old Mikael Scott and 17-year-old Tyler Muhleman — who also used it to kill themselves."
"The plaintiffs say posts on online suicide forums discuss the use of sodium nitrite to kill oneself and that Amazon has received complaints from people warning the company that customers are using the drug to die by suicide.
In February, a bipartisan group of House members sent a letter to Amazon asking about the retailer's sales of Sodium Nitrite and related suicides, details on what the company has done about the dangers of the substance and information about how it responded to complaints,"
Why do they care what we do and how we want to die. I kind of get why parents are upset (though you should actually monitor your child. If you were a good parent you would have known about this) but they also mention adults. Why do they care! It upsets me a lot. I'm a big believer in personal freedoms and responsibility.
