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US Soldier Sets Himself on Fire outside Israeli Embassy in Washington to Protest Gaza War (www.news18.com)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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“I will no longer be complicit in genocide [in Gaza]. I am about to engage in an extreme act of protest,” the man apparently said before setting himself alight and repeatedly shouting “Free Palestine!”

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

He specifically livestreamed the video and sent links to the livestream and archive to various journalists and anarchist press so that the video would be shared and viewed. Its a disservice for it to be censored and weird that person also watermarked it with their @

Uncensored version: (GRAPHIC VIDEO WARNING) https://x.com/v4p4l/status/1761995206465888567?s=46&t=xtlq_1V7eXJ31HI_SLdE9g It will likely be removed soon so download while you can if you think it deserves to be archived.

Twitter is terrible so heres an upload on archive.org that has a torrent and driect download https://archive.org/download/rpreplay-final-1708967255

[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Because it is censored, more people will see it and more people will get the message so I disagree with you but I see your point.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

literally the entire point behind this act is it being explicitly graphic, sharing the uncensored version quite literally goes against that. It's almost as bad as censoring the message from the get go, except now we're actively disrespecting his intention.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I think the graphic nature can be shared while also censoring the gore. It's not like it changes the events in any way.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

you can also do what this post and basically every article did, and then post a single frame of the video. No blurring needed, no graphic content explicitly posted.