Sheesh. I would think that of all the various community guidelines that exist in the major social media that posting dead bodies at active crime scenes and what not would definitely be a violation. I've had nothing to do with those for a long time though so I guess I don't know what the hell is going on there.
I know what you mean about the media chasing ambulances though. Jake Gyllenhaal I think it was had a movie that was about exactly that. Don't recall the name of it though. It was worth seeing if you can hunt it down but knowing what I know about you and movies, you have probably already seen it.
So, reddit did eventually crack down and ban those subreddits. But, those places existed for about 2-3 years before they did so and grew to large numbers of subscribers. I think there's definitely policies in place for this kind of shit, but, the enforcement is another thing all together.
Also, yeah that movie is called Nightcrawler. I've seen it twice, he had a great performance of playing a sociopath in it for sure. Definitely a dark/grimey movie.
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