Creator of anti-Islam film arrested on probation violation
A man by the name of Nakoula Basseley Nakoula was arrested on Thursday for making an anti-Islam film. He has been in hiding since he released the film. According to ABC news “The 55-year-old has been on probation for a 2010 federal check fraud conviction and served a 21-month prison sentence. Under terms of his probation, he was not to use computers or the Internet for five years without approval from his probation officer”. A court hearing was on Thursday but the public had no access to this. The film was titled “The Innocence of Muslims”. It is 14 minutes long and has led to a lot of street violence. Violence has mainly been occurring in Tunisia, Libya and Egypt and elsewhere in the Arab world. This beings me to the point that media can cause violence. Something as small as a 14 minute video had a huge effect on people. There is so much empirical evidence that shows that violence in the media has effects on the people watching it. A perfect example would be that within hours after the 14 minute trailer was released violence issues started coming up all over the world. According to my second source, “A vast empirical literature on the impact of television exposure on aggression has accrued over the last four decades, mostly in the fields of psychology and broadcasting. Reviews of this literature typically conclude that there is evidence that viewing violent media is associated with aggression”. This just goes to show you that this is a global controversy/issue that we have been dealing with for years. The question now is at this point what can we do about it? I would say limiting what games your children play and what they watch will help somewhat for your family. At this point I think there are precautions we can take as humans to help our family in decreasing violence but if we can get rid of violence in the media there is not much we can really do.
http://bscw-app1.let.ethz.ch/pub/bscw.cgi/d5907581/Savage-Does%20viewing%20violent%20media%20really%20cause%20criminal%20violence.pdf
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