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Sounds similar to a fair bit of video game content. Bayonetting innocents, adolescents brutally murdering other adolescents... Drawn or photorealistically rendered or real, where do you draw the line?


One is fiction and the other is not.


If ISIS released purely fictional accounts using actors and advanced CGI of the exact same content, you would be OK with it showing up on YouTube then?

Would a disclaimer blunt its impact as a recruitment tool?




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