That's how you could describe the images and posts that appear on a regular basis that tell a bogus but heartbreaking story claiming that Facebook, and in this case CNN, would donate if you shared the image.
This status contribution is:
The bad thing about this case is that the boy died 8 hours after his birth. The boy suffered from a rare malformation, anencephaly.
This is a severe malformation in which parts of the brain and skull are missing. Life expectancy is only a few days; death usually occurs due to dehydration because the swallowing reflex is not present.
I don't want to imagine the feelings of the parents who see such an intimate picture with their deceased son being abused for an almost perversely trivial thing, the satisfaction of other people's lust for liking.
Other factors are also likely to play a role here.
With the help of a nonprofit organization, the family managed to hire a professional photographer who captured images of the family in their brief moment of happiness over the birth of the child. But as is often the case, for some unknown reason, these pictures were deleted and the mother was banned from Facebook.
If, after such a tragic event and the hassle of deleting the pictures and the mother's FB ban, you then see the pictures abused again in such a shameful way, that might be too much for the parents.
As you probably know, we work closely with the law firm GGR Rechtsanwälte | Media law, copyright & personal rights . We asked them for a brief assessment of how Facebook tolerates a stolen and misused image.
According to our partner GGR Rechtsanwälte, the parents of the deceased could hold the creator/poster and also Facebook liable if they do nothing despite being aware of the legal violation. The specific consequences that would result from this would have to be examined individually for each case.
It should be easy for FB to block images that have already been deleted or texts with certain characteristics. This is not about censoring. This is clearly about protecting and preserving piety towards the family and the deceased child.
We also wrote to CNN and asked for a statement, as they were also mentioned as “donors” in the initial post.
When this report was written, CNN's response was not yet available. We will provide this if possible and include it as an update.
Conclusion:
Perversion across the board. Unscrupulousness that couldn't be worse. Abusing the suffering of an entire family to satisfy one's own lust. There is an urgent need for action on the part of Facebook here. It cannot be the case that a company relies on its standards on the one hand and disregards them on the other.
It cannot be the case that a billion-dollar company like Facebook does not have the resources, be it personnel or technical, to remove such images as quickly as possible.
Action MUST be taken here.
https://www.mimikama.org/general/facebook-was-es-mit-den-bildern-von-kranken-babys-auf-sich-hat/
https://www.mimikama.org/general/das-baby-mit-dem-krebsgeschwr-die-truheit/
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2146588/Heather-Patrick-Walker-Facebook-ban-pictures-baby-son-died.html
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anencephaly
http://www.kctv5.com/story/18555730/mother-launches-facebook-protes
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