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A veteran Boston firefighter has been terminated for social media postings that the department has described as "disturbing,'' but he said in a phone interview that he plans to appeal the firing.

Octavius Rowe, who served for more than 15 years on the force, confirmed Monday in an interview that he was fired April 30. He said he plans to appeal the decision but referred further questions to his lawyer about the process.

A Fire Department spokesman also confirmed the termination.

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Veteran Boston firefighter terminated over 'disturbing' social media posts

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A veteran Boston firefighter has been terminated for social media postings that the department has described as "disturbing,'' but he said in a phone interview that he plans to appeal the firing. Octavius Rowe, who served for more than 15 years on the force, confirmed Monday in an interview that he was fired April 30.

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https://www.pixus.uk/blog/5-examples-of-social-media-going-wrong/

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By the time Logan Paul arrived at Aokigahara forest, colloquially known as Japan's "suicide forest," the YouTube star had already confused Mount Fuji with the country Fiji. His over 15 million (mostly underage) subscribers like this sort of comedic aloofness-it serves to make Paul more relatable.

After hiking only a couple hundred yards into Aokigahara-where over 247 people attempted to take their own lives in 2010 alone, according to police statistics cited in The Japan Times-Paul encountered a suicide victim's body hanging from a tree. Instead of turning the camera off, he continued filming, and later uploaded close-up shots of the corpse, with the person's face blurred out.

"Did we just find a dead person in the suicide forest?" Paul said to the camera. "This was supposed to be a fun vlog." He went on to make several jokes about the victim, while wearing a large, fluffy green hat.

Within a day, over 6.5 million people had viewed the footage, and Twitter flooded with outrage. Even though the video violated YouTube's community standards, it was Paul in the end who deleted it.

"I should have never posted the video, I should have put the cameras down," Paul said in a video posted Tuesday, which followed an earlier written apology. "I've made a huge mistake, I don't expect to be forgiven." He didn't respond to two follow-up requests for comment.

YouTube, which failed to do anything about Paul's video, has now found itself wrapped in another controversy over how and when it should police offensive and disturbing content on its platform-and as importantly, the culture it foments that led to it. YouTube encourages stars like Paul to garner views by any means necessary, while largely deciding how and when to censor their videos behind closed doors.
On January 10, over a week after Paul uploaded the video, YouTube announced it had removed the star from Google Preferred, its top-tier advertising program that allows creators to have access to revenue from premium advertisers. The platform is also delaying projects Paul was a part of for its subscription streaming service YouTube Red. ¹
Before uploading the video, which was titled "We found a dead body in the Japanese Suicide Forest..." Paul halfheartedly attempted to censor himself for his mostly tween viewers. He issued a warning at the beginning of the video, blurred the victim's face, and included the number of several suicide hotlines, including one in Japan. He also chose to demonetize the video, meaning he wouldn't make money from it. His efforts weren't enough.

"The mechanisms that Logan Paul came up with fell flat," says Jessa Lingel, an assistant professor at the University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg School for Communication, where she studies digital culture. "Despite them, you see a video that nonetheless is very disturbing. You have to ask yourself: Are those efforts really enough to frame this content in a way that's not just hollowly or superficially aware of damage, but that is meaningfully aware of damage?"

The video still included shots of a corpse, including the victim's blue-turned hands. At one point, Paul referred to the victim as "it." One of the first things he said to the camera after the encounter was, "This is a first for me," turning the conversation back to himself.

'Of course YouTube is absolutely complicit in these kinds of things.'

Sarah T. Roberts, UCLA

There's no excuse for what Paul did. His video was disturbing and offensive to the victim, their family, and to those who have struggled with mental illness. But blaming the YouTube star alone seems insufficient. Both he, and his equally famous brother Jake Paul, earn their living from YouTube, a platform that rewards creators for being outrageous, and often fails to adequately police its own content.

"I think that any analysis that continues to focus on these incidents at the level of the content creator is only really covering part of the structural issues at play," says Sarah T. Roberts, an assistant professor of information studies at UCLA and an expert in internet culture and content moderation. "Of course YouTube is absolutely complicit in these kinds of things, in the sense that their entire economic model, their entire model for revenue creation is created fundamentally on people like Logan Paul."

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The Logan Paul "Suicide Forest" Video Should Be a Reckoning For YouTube

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By the time Logan Paul arrived at Aokigahara forest, colloquially known as Japan's "suicide forest," the YouTube star had already confused Mount Fuji with the country Fiji. His over 15 million (mostly underage) subscribers like this sort of comedic aloofness-it serves to make Paul more relatable.

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PD: Accused stalker sent 65,000 texts to man, said she wanted to bathe in his blood

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PD: Accused stalker sent 65,000 texts to man, said she wanted to bathe in his blood

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What started as a potential relationship on a dating site ended in a stalking nightmare for one Paradise Valley man.

PV police say the victim met 31-year-old Jacqueline Claire Ades of Phoenix online and went on a date with her.

But things quickly went awry.
[RELATED: 'He's my soul mate.' Accused stalker speaks out from jail about sending 65,000 texts] [RAW VIDEO: Woman speaks from jail about sending 65,000 text messages to PV man]
After that date, police say Ades began texting the man constantly, sending him more than 65,000 text messages. The victim told police sometimes she would send up to 500 texts a day.

Police say some of those messages were threatening.

According to the police report, the messages included:

"Don't ever try to leave me... I'll kill you... I don't wanna be a murderer!"

"I hope you die... you rotten filthy Jew."

"I'm like the new Hitler... man was a genius."

"I'd wear your fascia 'n the top of your skull 'n your hands 'n feet."

"Oh, what I would do w/your blood... I'd wanna bathe in it."

Also, police say Ades entered the victim's residence when he wasn't at home.

According to the police report, Ades had "a large butcher knife on the passenger seat of her car" at the time.

Ades also reportedly showed up at the victim's workplace, claiming to be his wife.
[VIDEO: Woman accused of stalking tells her story in a jailhouse interview]
Paradise Valley police arrested Ades Tuesday, May 8.

She was booked into 4th Avenue Jail on threatening, stalking, harassment and failure to appear charges.

When detectives asked Ades about the threatening text messages, she said "She did not want to hurt the victim because she loved him" and she says "she threatened him because she did not want him to leave."
[WATCH: Woman accused of stalking makes first court appearance]
Ades is set to appear in court May 15. She is being held without bond.

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PD: Accused stalker sent 65,000 texts to man, said she wanted to bathe in his blood

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What started as a potential relationship on a dating site ended in a stalking nightmare for one Paradise Valley man. PV police say the victim met 31-year-old Jacqueline Claire Ades of Phoenix online and went on a date with her. But things quickly went awry. [RELATED: 'He's my soul mate.'