I saw Frances Larson's TED Talk on beheading as an event many people want to see and recommend it to anyone to know why these kinds of videos get the attention of people around the world. It isn't about Muslims, Christians or any religious preference. It is about human nature, a part of it that we wish we could put behind us in the name of civilization. We aren't there yet. What she gets across is the idea that some darkness is in us all, and it is the kind of darkness that ISIS takes advantage of. The Internet makes that easy to do. What we see in Information War is the control of the content on the Internet, at least to the extent that it is possible. The free world doesn't see that as a good idea, and neither does ISIS, but it is something we need to look at. Somebody should be keeping those videos off the networks of the world and closing down the websites of those distributing them. Yes, it is hard to do.
https://www.ted.com/talks/frances_larson_why_public_beheadings_get_millions_of_views?language=en
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