Video footage of Saddam Hussein’s execution – official and unofficial versions – are everywhere on the web it seems.
According to various buzz charts and memetrackers either versions are the most linked to and blogged about videos on the web right now. If you’re in the networks it’s a hard thing to avoid today.
It’s a grim thing that social media has de facto resurrected the public execution for the 21st century on a global scale.
It occurs to me that a couple of years ago we would have called a video of someone being executed a snuff movie, something extremely taboo and illegal and widely reviled.
These videos are a darker aspect of the fact that content is extremely hard to suppress or control in this age of open networks of content creation and distribution. Perhaps you have to take the rough with the smooth when it comes to such freedoms.
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