After reading New Zealand Censors Declare Christchurch Shooting Footage Illegal; Start Rounding Up Violators by Tim Cushing, I wanted to tie it to my previous journal on news distribution, legality, and ignorance. In my previous entry I focused on exploring the aspect of exercising critical faculties when reading news, following the recent mass shooting that occurred in New Zealand, I want to touch on the notion of exercising such criticality when distributing and re-sharing footage of violence and murder. We have arrived at a stage in digital media where the exposure to such violence has been somehow normalized, individuals are immunized from questioning the ethicality of sharing the tragedies of others, circulating the suffering and deaths of others without questioning the meaning of such act. This makes me wonder about how the digital media age has become a tool or a vessel of desensitizing grief. Individuals no longer feel the need to respect notions of privacy when it comes to the suffering of others that clicking the share button has become a simple swift movement on the fingers.