Hi! Happy Sunday!

I just nuked a thread that I’m sure most of the userbase saw: someone was saying he’s going to shoot himself tomorrow and have a friend upload the video here. Curiously, one of his comments says he has 0 friends, but that’s neither here nor there.

This is not some giant corporation, we’re not a subsidiary of Reddit or Mindgeek or anything, we’re just a handful of retards running a handful of sites we made for people to have fun on. What I’m getting to here is that we do not have a legal team. We have no clue whether this pre-suicide thread is legal for us to knowingly host. I will explain the thought process:

Is WPD a mandated reporter in this instance?

There are no federal laws pertaining to requirements for shrinks to report imminent suicide risks. There are a huge number of state and local laws all over the place about it, though. But these are medical professionals, so it stands to reason that they can be mandated reporters. I’ve been unable to find anything about social media platforms being mandated reporters, or not being mandated reporters. I know a lot of them act as reporters, but it’s not clear if this is a legal compulsion, or just basic altruism/PR.

Does our inability to even get rudimentary geolocation data on the user mitigate this mandated reporting if so?

We voluntarily do not log users’ IPs. That’s not something baked into the site. I cannot grab your IP without making you click a sketchy third-party link, or going into the db and fundamentally altering how our cookies work. This is for your privacy. Since we have no means of identifying users, if we are a mandated reporter, then we have no means of acting as such. I would assume that this negates any mandated reporting, but if that is the case, allowing the thread to remain would be illegal incitement.

Is WPD legally obligated to remove commentary supporting the user’s suicide?

My gut says yes here, especially after that case with the girl bullying her boyfriend into topping himself (lmao). So initially I was just going to purge the pro-suicide comments, but nuking the thread seemed more in line with any possible legal obligation.

Is WPD in any way liable for a suicide that was advertised on it?

Given our total and complete inability to so much as figure out what continent a user is on, I would assume no…but again, there’s the case with that girl and her dead boyfriend (lol), so we’re playing it safe here.

If anyone can shed any light on WPD’s legal obligations in this situation, please do let us know. US law is incredibly obtuse and opaque and I’m at a loss here.

Thanks!

It happened in Chile about five years ago.

Greetings.

Nice compilation

Credit: fdegravata of Goredb

Likely taken by same person who took the other aftermath one.

its super sad..

shit keeps me up at night..

no backstory.

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Shock is one hell of a drug to let him keep on standing for that long before he collapses.

This is a translated message she said on a different section of the video. (Not included)Her message was: "I don't have anyone to help me. I had a boyfriend, but he made another girlfriend already. I tried so hard and thought things would get better but all went to shit. I can't find any solutions, I don't have any strength to try anymore... I better just die."

(The images down below)

nakaikiaka posted a photo of the letter with the message, "To myself, sorry".(ごめんねじぶん)

This letter was written by nakaikiaka when she was in the 7th grade to her future self in the 9th grade. She then committed suicide in her sophomore year of high school. https://t.co/E9FEhSYocq

Sorry about the music it's not my vid

If you're ever considering please reach out. I hope this angel rests in peace 🕊️