Warning: Suicide Sites Prompt Deaths
Posted on: Thursday, 20 March 2008, 21:00 CDT
A coroner says authorities need to crack down on Web sites that give suicide instructions, following 17 alleged suicides in Bridgend, Wales.
Philip Walters examined several alleged suicides in the Bridgend area since January 2007 and cited concerns about video-clip Web sites, including YouTube, as a possible cause of deaths, The Daily Telegraph reported Thursday.
One YouTube video Walters watched reportedly shows an American man describing how to fashion a noose and discussing his increasing British fan base.
Walters claimed the man's journal was extremely tormenting and was surely intended to try to convince people to kill themselves.
On YouTube, the rules prohibit content like pornography or gratuitous violence. When people see content that they think is inappropriate they can flag it and our staff then review it, a YouTube spokesman said.
Source: United Press International
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