Shut vile death video site, families say, as Ofcom gets new powers

The bereaved families are calling the online regulator of the online regulator to shut down a “Vile” website that promotes videos of the deaths of their loved ones.

The website, which we are not nominated, have more than three million members and include thousands of graphic photos and videos of real-life killings and suicides as well as execution by extremists. The previous members include people who have gone to shoot and kill school, BBC may reveal.

From Monday, new powers are found to tighten the illegal material, but it may not be enough to close the site.

The administrator team of the site has said that they will give their “full attention” to any kind of requests.

Under the Online Safety Act, the regulator can now take action on illegal materials and includes videos promoting terrorism or banned extremist groups.

All websites will now have to show that they have systems to remove illegal materials. If they fail to do so, the regulatory can obtain a court order to block platforms or impose a fine to £ 18m.

And from summer all sites should have a strong age verification system to prevent children from reaching the material.

But critics believe that the law is weak in itself and it is not getting strong enough to plan police sites.

Mike Hans’s brother David was assassinated in 2014 by members of the Islamic State (IS) group in Syria. The entire unlicensed video of his murder is on the site.

Mr. Hans says that the website is “Vile” and describes the material on it as “frightening”. He explains that there is no effective age verification and concern about the impact on children.

“It’s like a medicine,” he says, “once you have your first taste, you want another taste.

“So you want to see more, and it becomes more violent and more graphic and more disgusting”.

David Hans’s daughter, Bethani, says the comments on the video are frightening. “Over the years I have been trying to keep such a similar track and report sites. I am afraid that my son will one day watch his grandfather’s video.”

Mr. Hans says that officers should work now. “Every second that we delay in closing this site, we are putting our youth in danger.”

Tomcom has spent the last 18 months as the online security act was passed by the code of practice which is to be followed by platforms.

The regulator can now start using its powers for hosting illegal materials and its powers for fine platforms.

The video on the website is classified into groups, in which people are executed by extremist groups, as well as people are burnt alive, passing cars and crushed by trains.

However, not all videos on the site, violent and disturbing, will not be considered illegal.

Dr. Olivia Brown, who study radicalization and extremism at the Bath University, says that this type of videos, especially school shooting, watching about dysensitis users repeatedly.

She says, “What one can feel, may look like an impossible solution for this, then something will happen that can feel like a viable option,” she says.

This site is also deeply upset for grieving families.

A video of Base Jumper Nathan Odinson is placed in the “fall” category of the website by site administrators.

A 33 -year -old veteran Skydivar of Cambrisshire was, But died when his parachute failed to open after jumping from 29-floor tower in Pattaya, Thailand last year.

A Thai friend was doing the film at that time and the video was first posted on local social media.

“Nathan was a member of a family that we loved,” said his brother Ed Harrison.

“I felt this amazing, literally, that people could be so half-incomplete to share that video. I don’t think the members of these forums have such views regarding their family members.”

From today Towcom says that platforms must have a system to remove illegal materials.

“We will not hesitate to take enforcement action where it is necessary against such platforms that decrease.”

The challenge for Tomom is that the death website is hosted in the US and its owners and administrators remain anonymous.

Tomcom told us “This material is deeply disturbing”.

In a statement, the administrator team of the website stated that it “regularly receives reports from several government agencies and industry guards”.

It said that “any report of” will “we will pay full attention”.

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