Editing Shock site (section)

== Ethics ==
Several ethical concerns have been raised on the topic of shock sites and murder videos. One concern is that the popularity of shock sites will encourage an increase in violent murders, which can result in more extreme and violent videos that will likely generate more views on shock sites.<ref name=":0" /> Murder videos can inspire copycats to replicate the snuff films. After one of the Dnepropetrovsk Maniacs' videos leaked on the internet as "3 Guys 1 Hammer" in 2007, Luka Magnotta [[Murder of Jun Lin|murdered Lin Jun]], a Chinese student, and uploaded the video (including scenes of [[dismemberment]], cannibalism, and [[necrophilia]]) under the similar title of "1 Lunatic 1 Icepick" in 2012.<ref name=":0" />

Another concern is the right of a victim and the victim's family to privacy after death.<ref name=":0" /> This is the issue of whether Lin Jun's parents have a right to remove the video of their son's murder from the internet.<ref name=":0" /> Murder victims cannot consent to the footage of their deaths being used and uploaded, and several court cases have agreed that parents and loved ones should have a right to prevent the widespread viewership of a personal tragedy and stop the video from being published.<ref name=":3" />

Finally, while shock value is not sufficient to justify banning content legally (as was determined by [[Cohen v. California]]),<ref name=":3" /> there are still ethical concerns about the emotional damages caused by the jarring nature and content of shock sites. Viewing violent content such as murder videos on social media as part of work<ref>{{Cite book |title=Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders: DSM-5-TR™ |date=2022 |publisher=American Psychiatric Association Publishing |isbn=978-0-89042-575-6 |editor-last=American Psychiatric Association |edition=Fifth edition, text revision |location=Washington, DC |pages=301–302}}</ref> can cause or trigger [[post-traumatic stress disorder]] (PTSD) and cause other [[Distress (medicine)|emotional distress]].<ref name=":0" />