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Tech platforms silent on streaming US government execution

Original: YouTube, Meta, and Twitch won’t say if they’ll allow the US government to live stream an execution

YouTube, Meta, and Twitch are declining to say whether they would allow the US government to live stream the execution of Nidal Hasan, the former Army major convicted of the 2009 Fort Hood shooting. The companies have not responded to questions about their policies, leaving unclear whether a federal broadcast of an execution would be permitted on their platforms.

Why now: The prospect of a government execution being live streamed raises unprecedented free speech and content policy questions that the platforms have so far refused to answer.

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• YouTube, Meta, and Twitch won’t say if they’ll allow the US government to live stream an execution · The Verge

  YouTube, Twitch, and Meta aren’t saying whether they’ll allow the US government to livestream the execution of Nidal Hasan on their platforms.

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