https://stluciatimes.com/dont-share-the-video-it-is-wrong/
June 11, 2021
The President of Raise Your Voice Saint Lucia has expressed disgust at the continued sharing of graphic and at times embarrassing videos on social media.
Catherine Sealys is also concerned about the sharing of ‘intimate videos’ without the consent of the subject.
“Don’t share the video. It is wrong!” Sealys advises.
Sealys recalls that in the past several videos have appeared on social media, featuring among other things, mothers beating children and a man taking advantage of a naked woman who appeared to be intoxicated.
And most recently this week, the Raise Your Voice Saint Lucia President noted that a video had appeared on social media of a female accident victim in Vieux Fort.
Someone records the woman as she lies in pain on the ground with her skirt lifted.
“Your first duty is to save someone’s life, not to record them,” Sealys told St Lucia Times.
“For a woman to be in an accident and to be injured and to be on the ground suffering and somebody is videotaping her and then circulating that video, speaks to our tendency to absorb trauma, to be unempathetic,” she explained.
“Because if you are looking at this woman suffering, your first duty is to see how can you help her,” Sealys stated.
“I do not know what has happened to Saint Lucia, but everybody seems to feel anything that happens just take out my phone and start to video,” she lamented.
Sealys expressed concern over the national threshold for doing things that are unacceptable.
But she also condemned the hypocrisy of people who condemn the viral videos but share them anyway.
According to the Raise Your Voice Saint Lucia President, the relatives of victims continue to suffer.
“The persons in the video – they’re all over the place, not in the most dignified manner. We need to check ourselves in this country,” Sealys declared.
“This has to stop,” she asserted.
The Computer Misuse Act of Saint Lucia states:
- Malicious communications
(15. — (1) A person shall not use a computer to send a message, letter, electronic communication or article of any description that —
(a) is indecent or obscene;
(b) constitutes a threat; or
(c) is menacing in character,
with the intention to cause or being reckless as to whether he or she causes annoyance, inconvenience, distress or anxiety to the recipient or to any other person to whom he or she intends it or its contents to be communicated.
(2) A person who contravenes subsection (1) commits an offence and is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding ten thousand dollars or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months or both and in the case of a subsequent conviction, to a fine not exceeding twenty thousand dollars or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months or both.
According to the law, “computer” means a device that accepts information, in the form of digitalized data, and manipulates the information for some result based on a program or sequence of instructions on how the data is to be processed.
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