I came across a YouTube short of a monkey being “saved” and opened the account. There are many more videos like it, and it looks like one of those fake rescue channels where the animal is harmed before the video starts

If you go into the comments on the recent shorts you can see people talking about the problem.

Link: https://youtube.com/@bestquotes8114

Piped link: https://piped.video/@bestquotes8114?tab=shorts

The only reporting options I had were harassment and bullying, privacy, impersonation, violent threat, child endangerment, hate speech against protected group, spam and scams.

This channel should be shut down. Given that these channels are an ongoing problem, shouldn’t it be easier to report them? Is there a different place I should be looking?

  • RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.worldEnglish
    244·
    10 months ago

    Encouraging such a dangerous action is irresponsible. Innocent people have died because law enforcement went to the wrong address. Please, do not SWAT people, or encourage it.

    • vzq@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      205·
      10 months ago

      This is 100% a police problem. Over here, if you send police at my door, we are going to have a chat. It might be unpleasant, but the odds of weapons being drawn is very small.

      You can’t blame 4chan for the fact that you have a militarized police force staffed by traumatized COIN veterans using military tactics to respond to unsubstantiated anonymous calls.

        • RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.worldEnglish
          9·
          10 months ago

          SWAT is an American special police force, so the discussion would naturally involve America.

          The French equivalent would probably be sending in GIGN with a false call. The German equivalent would be GSG9. Australia would be I think SPS. UK has PSU. You get the idea.

          Regardless, “SWATing” is massively overkill and far more dangerous to innocent people than just calling regular law enforcement to report potential animal abuse. Not to mention that it is also illegal.

    • Garbanzo@lemmy.worldEnglish
      82·
      10 months ago

      I disagree. We should be SWATting each other left and right until enough toddlers get flash banged that we are forced to rethink the entire concept. Apparently two toddlers isn’t enough, gotta pump those numbers UP!