Your death could become content: Web video’s autoplaying horror makes us all eyewitnesses

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by Sindy Cator on August 26, 2015 at 1:47 pm

Your death could become content. We live in a world of ubiquitous cameras. The eyes in the sky and on buildings. The ‘citizen Stasi’ – to paraphrase Stewart Lee – of social networks and smartphones in almost every hand. It was once a thing of debate – will the revolution be televised? – now we know everything will be televised. And if you want to close your eyes, the gleeful mass of content mongers and advert pushers might not let you. Autoplay crams the horror into your optic nerve. You can turn off the TV, you can turn off Facebook, you can…